Sunday, December 25, 2005

Honey pepper beef Fajita Tortilla

In the lexicon of food, a fajita generically refers to grilled meat served on a flour tortilla with condiments. Popular meats are beef, chicken, pork and shrimp. They are often cooked with onions and bell peppers. Popular condiments are sour cream, guacamole, salsa, pico de gallo, cheese, lettuce, and tomato. (courtesy of Wiki)
Oh dear, my fridge has run out of bell peppers and tomatoes. Oh well, improvise...
Ingredients
2 rump steaks, sliced
1/2 Pepper, deseeded and sliced into squares (optional)
Small onion, chopped

1 tsp English mustard (Djion's fine too but I like the 'kick' of English)
1 tbls honey
1 tbls chinese dark soya sauce
1 tsp corn flour
2 tsp tomato paste
Plenty of freshly ground black pepper

Method
1) Put the slices of steak, peppers and onions into a deep bowl.
2) Marinate by mixing with honey, dark soya sauce, corn flour, mustard and black pepper.
3) Once well marinated, drain away the marinade and set aside the marinade for later.
4) Grill the beef between 3 to 6 mins (depending on how rare you like your steak) on a very hot grill. Remove.
5) The peppers and onions take longer and have juices oozing out, so should be grilled after the beef. You don't want to 'stew' your beef by having the juices ooze out and bringing down the temp of your grill. These vegs can be grilled until the onions are nice and caramelized and the peppers have nice char marks on their skin.
6) Warm up some tortillas in a microwave, 10 seconds on High. Alternatively, warm on a dry frying pan, turning over to warm both sides. Remove tortillas and brush with the tomato paste.
7) Microwave the marinade to cook it (15 seconds on high should be sufficient). I use this as a salad dressing for my salad.
8) Wrap the beef, peppers and onions with the tortilla, and serve with salad.

Simple and nice for a hot summer's day!

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