I am completely obsessed with these fajitas. I’ve made them three times in the last three weeks. They are the best fajitas I’ve ever made at home. Seriously! The fajitas are marinated in a mixture of beer and Rotel tomatoes. We let the meat marinate overnight to get the most flavor we could in the meat. I was worried about the beer flavor, but I couldn’t taste it once the meat was cooked. (We used a bottle of Dos Equis beer)
Chicken Legs grilled the skirt steak and I sautéed the onion and pepper on the stove. The results were fabulous! They tasted as good, if not better, than any restaurant fajitas. As I said, we’ve made these three times; once with beef and twice with chicken. They were both delicious! Put these on your menu this week – you won’t be disappointed!
Rotel Fajitas
adapted from texmex.net
(Printable Recipe)
- 1 can (10 oz.) Rotel Diced Tomatoes and Green Chilies
- 1 cup beer
- ¼ cup lemon juice
- 3 Tbsp olive oil
- 2 Tbsp Worcestershire sauce
- 2 cloves garlic, minced
- 1 teaspoon black pepper
- 2 lbs. skirt steak, excess fat trimmed
- 1 medium onion, sliced 1/4-inch thick
- 1 medium green bell pepper, sliced
- 10 eight-inch flour tortillas
- shredded cheddar cheese
- sour cream
- salsa
Combine the Rotel, beer, lemon
juice, oil, Worcestershire sauce, garlic and black pepper. Place meat in large ziplock bag, pour marinade over meat. Place onions and peppers in ziplock bag, and refrigerate
at least 6 hours, overnight if possible.
Remove meat and vegetables from marinade. Grill meat to desired temperature. Allow to rest 5 minutes and then slice beef across the grain into thin strips.
While the meat is cooking, sauté onions and bell peppers
until peppers in some oil until they are tender-crisp, about 10 minutes. Warm tortillas according to
package directions.
For each fajita, layer meat, onion and pepper, cheese, sour cream, salsa in the center of the tortilla.
Do you pour some of the marinade over the vegetables, too?
you can if you would like
I love fajitas. This recipe sounds amazing. Can't wait to try it. I've never heard of skirt steak, so this will be a learning experience.
Looks divine. Thanks for sharing.
We used that recipe for some of the very first fajitas we ever made back after Alexis and I first got married. They were good then and they are good now!
upchuck – yes, the red in the prepared fajitas is salsa.
So the beautiful red chunks in the photo are from salsa, not Rotel tomatoes, which are merely a marinade ingredient and dumped before cooking everything else? Just clarifying, because I really wanna make these!
They look really good! I need to try making them, thank you for sharing!!
Hi Steph,
These look so delish! Have to try.
I think you and I have similiar ideas on food photography, getting close in and deleting a lot of the background seems to work well. Great job!
Thanks for sharing:) Di {CookTheTV}
Sounds good! What kind of rice did you make to go with them??
Fajitas always smell so good. I like them, but have always ordered them without bell pepper.
That is the one ingredient I just can't make myself like…and tofu…lets not forget it…something about the mouth feel on that one. But, back to the bell pepper. Hate the taste, hate the texture, just plain ol hate it. oops…TMI, I'm sure
I just love Fajitas and haven't had them in ages. This recipe sounds so good that I am going to make these.