Saturday, April 3, 2010

Steak Fajita Salad


Steak Fajita Salad

Whipped up this little ditty a couple weeks ago. It started out as just a basic idea and morphed into something pretty delicious. I’ve also been using spice paste a lot instead of marinating. Here’s what the salad consisted of.

Strip Steak that was rubbed with spice paste and grilled.

Grilled red pepper and onion

Romaine and Iceberg lettuce

Grated carrot

Jeff’s famous Habanero Tomatilo salsa (see below)

Goat Cheese

Sour Cream

Homemade chipotle-lime ranch. (see below)

Some Tortilla chips

Cilantro

Fresh squeeze of lime

I think that’s it.

Habanero Tomatilo Salsa

4- Vine ripe tomatoes

2- Tomatilos

½ Habanero pepper, seeds removed.

½ Small red onion

1- Garlic Clove

Juice of half a lime

Handful of cilantro

Salt and pepper

(Sometimes I add some pineapple or mango too)

Chop, combine, enjoy.

Chipotle-Lime Ranch

Get ready for this groundbreaking recipe…

Some Ranch dressing

½ teaspoon of adobo sauce

Squeeze of lime

Salt

Boom- Chipotle-Lime Ranch

2 comments:

  1. Love the idea of using a spice paste instead of marinating, much faster. I just read an article about the benefits of spice pastes but I can't remember where. Probably on The Kitchn since I'm still addicted, thanks again Jeff. Also, I have become addicted to Serious Eats, fyi. Goat cheese was an interesting choice for the nachos, are you a fan? I'm not really. But the nachos look excellent and even with goat cheese I would dominate them. Have you thought about roasting your tomatillos, tomatoes, onions, and garlic first? That would be nice..

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  2. Yup that article was on The Kitchn, why do you think I just posted two recipes with spice pastes :) Haven't checked out serious eats. I love goat cheese, if there are any Dewey's in Indy, or any other "gourmet" pizza places that have pizzas with goat cheese, you should get one, that's when I started really diggin goat cheese. Roasting the salsa ingredients sounds great, might even add a pablano or something too if I was gonna do that, prob hit it with immersion blender a couple times too.

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