I did them a lot different this time. Normally I grill the meat then cut it up. This time I partially froze the steak and chicken and cut it up ahead of time. I also cut up all the veggies and seasoned everything. One thing I have been missing is that great caramelization that I get with restaurant fajitas.
I started off with jalapeño and tomato for a salsa. I then combined all the meat and veggies in the skillet. It started simmering and made a lot of its own juice. I knew I wouldn’t get the caramelization with all that liquid. I removed the grate and added coal to get the heat I needed to begin to cook down the liquid. This part took awhile. Oh the anticipation. Would I dry it out? Would it burn? After awhile the liquid started to reduce and things started to caramelize. This looked like it my be a success. I brought the pan inside two hot pads per handle. It was piping hot. My wife warmed some no preservative fresh tortillas. Those are great by the way. And served with my chipotle sour cream. It was very good.
Also I had a chunk of steak left to cook. I salt and peppered it and tested the carbon steel on the stove top. By far the best stove top steak I have ever made.
It was exciting. Smoke alarms going off and the wife getting mad that I’m continuing to cook something after we ate and was smoking her out of the house. I didn’t know the carbon steel was going to be such an exciting piece of cookware lol. I will be getting more of it.
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