Carne Asada, Dinner Today
Lime marinated carne asada soft tacos with cotija cheese, lettuce, and cilantro served w/ roasted onion and Roma tomato Spanish rice
3 limes cut in 1/2 and juiced
1/4 cup white vinegar
1/2 white onion
1 teaspoon Salt
cracked black pepper
1/2 bunch of cilantro minced
1 tablespoon cumin
1 teaspoon cayenne pepper
1 tablespoon smoked paprika
1 teaspoon dried chili powder
1 tablespoon red chili flakes
2 tablespoons garlic powder
2 tablespoons onion powder
4 splashes of soy sauce or you can use Worcester sauce too
about 1 and a half to two pounds of flap steak which will have some silver attached to the back you need to clean it very well from all that connective tissue or you’ll have tough carne asada.
Add all the dry ingredients and wet in a small bowl and mix together. This is what i used I’m pretty sure I through things together quickly but you may like the marinade more spicy but so you know this is a spicy marinade to begin with or to have more acid so make sure you make the marinade aside from the meat and taste it to see if you’d like more fresh herbs. Recipes have to be adjust to personal taste that’s always my philosophy use this as a base and add things you love.
After you’ve tasted it then add the meat, you can toss in the lime rinds for extra flavor, and onions to the mixture toss and leave in a plastic bag up to 24 hours. This marinade actually is not very very wet so just make sure every things saturated. If it looks too dry add a bit of water or stock to it which will keep meat moist for holding overnight but you shouldn’t need it.
I didn’t put any oil in this which i thought was kinda weird but it still came out really good
Then drain off excess moisture and grill or what I did cause I don’t have a grill is just use a grill pan and heated an oven to 450 cooked the meat for about 7-9 minutes and moved the pieces around about 4 minutes in and done. Slice up the meat on a bias which means against the grain of the meat. Another technique that will keep the meat from getting though.
Carne asada let me know how you like it if you decide to try it 🙂
Veggie… fied
Use Zucchini, Chayote, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chayote Bell peppers, and Red Onions, Even Fried Tofu, and marinade them with the spices i have up there for the beef
just as good even better