Tips For Cooking The Best Fajitas

!±8± Tips For Cooking The Best Fajitas

Fajita is generally beef, chicken, pork or shrimp grilled and served on a flour tortilla with condiments. The chicken is worked with onions and bell peppers. Fajita is served to the table sizzling loudly on a metal platter with tortilla and condiments on the side. Making your lips watery?

Texans would love to take credit for giving the world fajitas but the honor goes to south of the border, Vagueros, who learnt the art of cutting tough beef into skirt steak. Fajitas are basically Tex Mex dishes. Nowadays Fajita is almost anything cooked and wrapped in a flour tortilla. Only true fajitas are skirt steak.

The preparation of Fajitas starts with marinating the beef using limejuice to tenderize at least for 24 hours. Well, there are no set rules for marinating; you can use your creative sense for that, but don't forget to use limejuice. To marinade beef or chicken, you can use the Ass Kickin Soakin' and Grilling Sauce. This would bring a true Mexican flavor.

Fajitas are real fun to eat, and here are the ways to cook the best Fajitas, namely:

Grilling an exciting fajita
Traditional method for cooking fajita is over coal for approximately 6 minutes on both sides for skirt steaks around one pound. After the meat gets cooked, you should let it rest for a few minutes and cut it across the grain diagonally in to finger length strips.

Oven broiling fajitas
Broil the meat 4 inches below the flame for about 6 minutes on both sides. Then you can let it rest for a few minutes and slice it diagonally in to finger length strips.

Pan frying fajitas
Drain the meat and cut it across the grain in finger length strips and fry over high heat for not more than 1.5 minutes turning frequently. Roll them in flour tortilla. Choose thick tortillas available in any supermarket. Warm them up by sealing in foil packages, 6-8 at a time. On a frying pan, add few tablespoon of olive oil, cut one large onion and separate into rings and cut bell peppers into strips. Add them to the frying pan and stir fry. Serve with stir fried onions and bell peppers.

Some specialized fajita preparations are Pico-de-gallo, guacamole, Fajita on a stick, Fah-HEE-Tah, Beef Fajita Marinade and many more. Here are a few, which I find interesting, but you can always add your magic touch to them:

Pico-de-gallo
This fiery and flavorable salsa is like any other salsa but the ingredients are finely chopped. If rightly made it is hot. Since people make it to their liking they can control the heat.

Guacamole
Cool and buttery smoothness of guacamole adds the finishing touch on a fajita. Experiment your ideas on it and get it right. My suggestion is to select the right Avocado of Haas variety with brownish-black skin with a pebbly texture.

Fah-HEE-Tah
Traditional skirt steak has to be marinated for long 24 hours in limejuice, red capsicum and garlic. Cooked meat is cut into strips and them wrapped in a warm tortilla and garnished with salsa or guacamole.

Fajita On A Stick
Soak 8-9 bamboo skewers for 10 minutes. Trim fat from steak and cut crosswise into ½ " thickness. Thread equal amount of beef weaving back and forth onto skewer. Combine dressing and lime juice. Brush on beef peppers and onions. Place vegetables on grid for 15 to 20 minutes. Remove and add beef to the centre. Add salt. When ready, serve beef and vegetables in tortilla with salsa.

Beef Fajita Marinade
Combine limejuice, tequila, crushed dried oregano leaves, cloves of garlic, minced fresh cilantro, ground cumin, ground black pepper. Mix well and pour marinade over meat, refrigerate overnight or even 24 hours in zip top bag. It makes enough marinade for 1 ½ pound flank steak.

Fajitas are terrific for informal dinner party. It is inherently festive or goes hand-in-hand with margaritas or Mexican beer and Tex Mex treat. Good Luck! Taste your own Fajitas, don't go for the restaurant version of Fajitas.

Tips For Cooking The Best Fajitas

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Methods of Cooking and Grilling Deer Meat

!±8± Methods of Cooking and Grilling Deer Meat

Whether in a fireplace, outdoor grill, roasting in an oven or on a spit, sautéing, frying, steaming, "encased" cooking, in a crust, braising, stewing, poaching - Venison will go from raw to cooked.

There are 2 main ways of doing this:

Cooking by "sealing" - with browning - retains all the juices and nutritive elements of foods by caramelizing the exterior surface over heat, with or without the addition of fat (Olive oil) when broiling, or grilling, roasting, sauteing, or frying.

Without browning - cooking the meat in boiling liquid, steaming it, or using a nonstick pan, as when poaching.

Cooking by "interchange" - with browning - used for pot roasting or braising. First the meat is sauteed very quickly in olive oil, then liquid (wine or stock) is added to half-cover, and the food is then simmered slowly on top of the stove or in the oven. The juices within the Venison is gradually released and mix with the cooking liquid....interchange.

Without browning - Quickly saute in olive oil the place in the liquid and cook. The juice and aromas mix with the stock, which becomes richer and makes a tender and juicy final dish.

Fireplace or Outdoor Grill: Grill must be hot, Venison should be at room temperature and lightly coated with Olive Oil. Very Rare: The Venison is place on grill and seared, then turned 90 degrees (do not turn over) to make crisscross pattern of brown lines on its surface. Then the meat is turned over (do it with out spearing the meat - do not make a hole in the meat as the juices will escape). Same thing is done on the other side. (Only turn completely over once). After the meat has been grilled for a very short time, and is still soft when pressed gently with a finger, it is ready to take off the grill. (125 or less degrees internal temp) Place the meat on a plate, cover, and keep warm for (10 minutes) to finish cooking.

Medium-Rare: If you continue the cooking somewhat longer, you must do it more slowly; therefore keep the meat considerably farther from the main source of heat. More drops of blood will appear on the upper surface, and when you press the meat, it will be more resistant and firmer that before: it is now medium-rare (135 degrees internal temp). Again, let the meat rest for 10 minutes.

If you wanted it to really cook longer but not loose the moisture in the meat, cover the meat tightly while resting.

Rules:

* Do not overcook - nothing over 135 degrees internal temp before resting.

* Do not puncture the meat until after resting the venison - no fork, no knife - no puncture. Use tongs to turn the venison.

* Do not turn the meat over more than once.

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