Recipes

MESQUITE-GRILLED FAJITAS
  • Ingredients
  • 3 pounds skirt steak or very lean round steak
  • 2 limes
  • 6 garlic cloves, minced
  • 1 teaspoon salt
  • freshly ground black pepper to taste
  • 6 to 8 large 12-inch flour tortillas
  • 12 to 16 leaves of rinsed, whole romaine lettuce
  • Pico de Gallo Sauce (recipe follows)
  • 8 ounces sour cream
  • 2 ripe avocados
Directions
  1. Trim the steaks, removing any fat and sinew
  2. Pound as thin as possible
  3. Cut into strips 4 to 6 inches long by 2 inches wide. Squeeze the limes and combine the juice with the gar- lic, salt, and a generous amount of pepper
  4. Place steak in a shallow bowl, then thoroughly cover steak pieces with the lime mixture
  5. Let set at room temperature for at least 30 minutes, preferably for 2 hours. About 45 minutes before serving, prepare a hot fire for direct cooking method as described at the beginning of this chapter, using mesquite to flavor the charcoal bri- quets. Grill should be about 3 to 4 inches from the coals
  6. Grill strips until charred on each side, but still rare in the center
  7. Heat foil wrapped flour tortillas for 15 minutes in a 350F
  8. oven, or heat tortillas on the grill. To serve, place a piece of steak in the center of each tortilla, with a piece of romaine on either side. For those who like it hot, spoon a little Pico de Gallo on the inside
  9. Wrap and serve with sour cream and sliced avocados on the side
  10. You should also drizzle a little Pico de Gallo over the top.


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