We love grilling AND Mexican food! If you do too, you might also want to try our Horchata, Authentic Carne Asada Recipe, Grilled Pork Tacos al Pastor and Homemade Churros for dessert!
Grilled Chicken and Steak Fajitas
My first real job was in high school when I got hired to work as a server at a little Mexican restaurant in North Platte, Nebraska. I really enjoyed that job: taking orders from customers, always having a little cash in my pocket, as many fresh chips as I could eat. We had a typical menu for a Mexican restaurant in Nebraska and my favorite dish to serve were chicken and steak fajitas that always went out from the kitchen on sizzling skillets. Here’s a little secret – the sizzling skillets are just a restaurant trick accomplished by heating the skillet over a flame and then dropping a pat of butter on it, followed by the chicken or steak fajita filling and delivering it still smoking and spitting to the customer. The smell of the grilled onions and peppers and the wonderful chicken and steak was just amazing. If I close my eyes I can go right back to that kitchen and that time of my life on that memory alone. Paul LOVES chicken or steak fajitas and it is one of his favorite meals for me to make at home, even though it is also usually what he orders if we happen to eat out at a Mexican restaurant. Fajitas are an empowering food because they give the person eating them some of the decision-making usually belonging to the chef. Want a higher meat to pepper and onion ratio? Go for it! More cheese in that fajita? Don’t mind if I do. These grilled chicken and steak fajitas are my favorite and blow any fajitas I have ever ordered at a restaurant right out of the water. The meat is marinated in a little lime juice, oil, and spices and then grilled to perfection right alongside the red and yellow peppers and onions, then they all get sliced and drizzled with a little reserved marinade (which you will want to set aside before marinating the meat). Serve ’em up with plenty of soft flour tortillas, sour cream, guacamole and shredded cheese and everybody is happy!
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