How do you personally make Fajitas?

[callipygoustp]

Chicken or flank stank(cooked rare/medium rare), sauteed green peppers and onions, with some variety of salsa, sour cream, and guacamole.

[McFuu]

Fajitas are Mexican, bro.

I was being deliberately vague, she's Mexican and Costa Rican.

[Enfilade]

I'm vegan so I use Beyond Meat chicken strips, salsa, green chile sauce, green peppers, black beans, and sometimes refried beans.

Edit: Shit, I forgot guacamole.

[Micronetic]

I have never tried Fajitas but this looks tasty!

[frogger237]

Do you make the french fries yourself or do you go to like McDonalds and buy them?

I usually just bake some frozen ones in the oven. Would prob be 1000 times better with McDonalds french fries tho.

[Graeham]

I usually make them with chicken, mild spices, green/red peppers and red onions. Then add some salsa, guacamole and sour cream to taste. Sometimes I add kidney beans, lettuce and cherry tomatoes.

[endersblade]

and french fries.

What is this, I don't even
I cannot comprehend this level of potato

[orxilalo]

I add green and red pepper, onions, rice and chicken. Only salt and olive oil

[PACOX]

No.

Meat + bell peppers = disgusting

The only time i eat bell peppers is with meat

[belfpala]

This is skirt steak, may also be called flank steak. You have to cut it against the grain or it will be too tough to eat.

Skirt and flank are different cuts. There's also inside skirt and outside skirt. They are mostly interchangeable, but you may need to alter the cooking time because skirt is (usually) thinner than flank. Also you have to cut it differently to go across the grain.

Moving on, fajitas are traditionally made with skirt steak. It can be difficult to find skirt steak (in the US), unless you have good vendors or a Mexican specialty store.

As for cooking them, I'm a minimalist. I grill or saute onions and peppers with a scant amount of seasoning--salt, pepper, cumin, then oregano at the end. Then I grill the meat after salting, and brush it with lime juice a couple times. Off the heat, let it rest, slice thin. Serve in a warm tortilla with options to add salsa, crema, crumbly cheese, avocado, more lime, etc.

One of my favorite things to make for myself.

[Mormolyce]

I haven't had fajitas in years. Tend to go burrito when I can get decent Mexican food at all...

Actually are fajitas Tex-Mex?

No.

Meat + bell peppers = disgusting

I have to disagree on that one.

[Milchshake]

I haven't had fajitas in years. Tend to go burrito when I can get decent Mexican food at all...

Actually are fajitas Tex-Mex?

I have to disagree on that one.

Meh I just prefer tacos, much more practical to make. I like to taste the filling than a big mouthful of flour tortilla, flour tortillas are for burritos. Then a large flour tortilla becomes more practical to hold rice and beans.

I just go with whatever I have on hand. Am able to pull fresh onions and cilantro from the garden. Prefer Pasilla peppers over Bells. Then whatever meat I have on hand, chicken, beef, or seafood.

For a vegetarian option I'll fry up some zucchini blossoms, or summer squash sliced lengthwise and grilled.

Fajitas can be made into tacos, but a taco isn't always a fajita.

[misterpuk]

Since Fajitas can be pretty much anything

Not technically true

Fajitas classically refers to skirt steak cut of beef.

[Sunderella]

red and green pepper, caramelize onion, chicken, some paprika and a mixture of chilli, oregano, coriander and cumin. Serve with some shredded cheese and lettuce. Pretty usual stuff I guess.

[dextersmith]

How do you impersonally make Fajitas?

[bladeXcrasher]

I haven't had fajitas in years. Tend to go burrito when I can get decent Mexican food at all...

Actually are fajitas Tex-Mex?



I have to disagree on that one.

Except burritos are American, they were invented in Los Angeles.

[Mormolyce]

So technically, fajita is the meat right? Like, if you cut fried steak or whatever into strips, that's fajita, which you typically put in a tortilla wrap, but can also make tacos etc out of? Whereas a burrito is made with ground meat or carnitas etc?

I have another question. Some Mexican places around here put rice in burritos along with the other ingredients. Is that common in Mexico? I always thought you either had the filling with rice or you put it in a tortilla.

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Except burritos are American, they were invented in Los Angeles.

So burritos and fajitas are both Tex-Mex? Or American-Mexican anyway. Do Mexicans wrap up fillings in flour tortillas - and if so what do they call them? How do they differ from burritos and fajitas?

[bluejaye]

i just made chicken fajitas yesterday. I season the chicken with salt, pepper, cayenne, paprika, cumin, oregano, garlic powder, and onion powder, then a little olive oil and fresh lime juice. I usually cut the chicken breasts in half to make 2 thinner pieces, they cook faster and you're cutting it all up at the end anyway. Throw the chicken on the grill and cook the peppers and onions on the stovetop in a cast iron skillet. I throw the flour tortillas on the grill for a few seconds on each side at the end to get them hot and a little bit crispy. They come out super good. I eat them with sour cream, cheese, and cilantro on top.

[Logwyn]

I usually just bake some frozen ones in the oven. Would prob be 1000 times better with McDonalds french fries tho.

Maybe. Not sure really. I've never used french fries just baked potatoes.

[tanksin the enhance shamy]

with chicken kidney beans small pecies of chorizo and a sauce made with smokey paprika