Fajitas

This recipe is a hodge podge of recipes that I found on the internet (Tyler Florence Fajita and alton brown salsa) and what I actually had available in my apartment. Normally I am scared to put the wrong flavors together, but this turned out well.  I am trying to write it down ASAP so I don't forget. So here we go:

Ingredients:

Top sirloin breakfast strip steak
Mission tortillas

Marinade:
1/2 of Lime squeezed into juice
1/4 chopped onion
1 chopped garlic clove
One bunch of fresh chopped cilantro
One splash (tablespoon?) of olive oil
Cumin
Salt and pepper

Salsa: 
Two roma tomatoes
Two garlic cloves
About a quarter cup of roasted red pepper from the jar (red pepper, garlic, water, olive oil and citric acid)
1/4 chopped red onion
bunch of chopped cilantro
olive oil
1/2 of lime squeezed into juice
teaspoon of chili powder
Salt and pepper

Topping:
1/2 sliced roasted pepper from jar
1/2 sliced onion
2 white mushrooms coarsely chopped
less than a tablespoon of Sesame oil

Directions:

Mix all ingredients of marinade together and add to strip steak. Coat throughly and place in bowl in fridge for two hours.
Mix all of the ingredients of the salsa together in a blender. Set aside in fridge until ready.
Grill the steak on high heat until thoroughly cooked.  Chop steak into small pieces to make cooking faster. Cook in all of the original juices from the marinade.
In a separate pan, saute onion, roasted pepper and mushrooms with a small amount of seasame oil (it has a very strong flavor and scent). Set topping aside and use the same pan to heat tortillas.
Assemble steak, then topping, then a small amount of salsa (less than a tablespoon) on flour tortilla.

Note: I have a lot of salsa left over and need to figure out what to do with it. Also I did use processed tortillas because when I make my own tortillas I use whole wheat flour and I still haven't figured out how to make it taste well. To make a more natural version of this recipe you could substitute the tortilla with rice. Also the roasted red pepper jar had citric acid. I would prefer lime or lemon juice over plan citric acid.





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