Tex-Mex Fajitas with a side dish

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So prepare Fajitas (Fajitas) in America - in the style of Tex-Mex (Texas Mexican) Fajitas is not just grilled meat in a tortilla (corn tortilla), but definitely a traditional set of side dishes or sauces: pasta made from black beans, rice with Mexican spices, sauce, Pico de Gallo and sour cream. Meat, beans and rice are prepared with traditional Mexican spices: cumin, oregano and, of course, dressed with lime juice. No onions and hot peppers in the kitchen is also required. All these ingredients complement each other and create the unique flavor of Mexican food. Traditionally for Fajitas use a fairly cheap and not very soft cuts of beef: flank steak, flank and flank (flank, round, skirt, London broil, etc.). It is therefore very important for Fajitas cut the meat into very thin strips - cross grain. Then the meat is cooked and remains juicy, cook them over very high heat. Of course, nobody will forbid to cook Fajitas from more expensive - stake cuts: thick edge, thin edge, sirloin, rump and rump, and of course the tenderloin. Although, in this case, it is not the traditional Fajitas. Links to pasta recipes black-bean sauce, Pico de Gallo and Mexican rice are given in the respective steps and the list of ingredients of these products are not included.

Ingredients for Tex-Mex Fajitas with a side dish

Step by step instruction of cooking Tex-Mex Fajitas with a side dish

Шаг 1

Cut the meat into long narrow strips (0.5 x 1 x 8 cm). If you take the cuts listed in the ingredients, the piece of meat will have the desired thickness, and if you take another type of meat, it may have narezaete first on the plate, with a thickness of 1 - 1.5 cm it is Important to do thick slices, because we want the meat done.

Шаг 2

Spread the meat in a bowl. Add the vegetable oil. Add the lime juice. Add cumin. Add dried garlic, sliced hot pepper. Sprinkle with salt, stir and press it and put in the fridge for 30 - 60 minutes

Шаг 3

Cooking Mexican pasta with black beans: https://www.povareno k.ru/recipes/show/15 7638/

Шаг 4

Prepare sauce Pico de Gallo: https://www.povareno k.ru/recipes/show/15 7646/

Шаг 5

Prepare spicy Mexican rice: https://www.povareno k.ru/recipes/show/15 7639/

Шаг 6

Onions cut into slices

Шаг 7

Sweet pepper cut into strips 1 x 8 cm

Шаг 8

Fry the onion and pepper in a frying pan with vegetable oil. Vegetables should remain slightly crunchy

Шаг 9

Fry the meat in small batches in vegetable oil until cooked over high heat (2 minutes - 3 on each side, until the bleed - through of the juice)

Шаг 10

Heat a cast iron skillet and spread on her meat with vegetables

Шаг 11

Serves fajitas on a cast iron skillet. The side dish served in separate bowls next

Шаг 12

Heat corn tortillas tortilla in the microwave and served with fajitas. Every man for himself collects the cake. On the cake (center and along) vykladyvaem a paste of black beans, grated cheese over the meat with vegetables, sauce on top, Pico de Galya and supplemented it all with sour cream.

Шаг 13

Bend the tortilla in half, put on a plate and start the meal. Eat these cakes with your hands.