My daughter wants me to make her some steak quesadillas, I have some nice stew meat that I want to marinate and use.
Does anyone have any good ideas on what to use to marinate the meat with? Any idea will be greatly appreciated.
Just bumping this to see if any of the Sunday morning crowd has any suggestions.
Try this. I generally use it on flank steak before I grill it. Then I use sliced steak in quesadillas or fajitas. It should work with the stew meat, too, as long as you’re going to cook the meat before it goes into the quesadilla. The orange juice and tequila give it a good tang!
1/4 cup sugar
1/2 cup distilled white vinegar (if you have unseasoned rice vinegar, even better)
1 tablespoon ground red chiles (or a tablespoon of chile powder if you can’t find pure ground chiles)
zest and juice of 6 oranges
one jigger of good quality silver tequila
1 tablespoon lime juice
1 tablespoon peanut oil
1 tablespoon chopped cilantro
1/4 teaspoon salt
In a saucepan, bring the sugar, vinegar and ground chile to a boil. Add the orange zest, remove from heat and let cool. Add the orange juice, tequila, lime juice, peanut oil, cilantro and salt and whisk it all together.
I don’t have any oranges, but I have orange juice. No cilantro. Think that will work? How long do you suggest I let it marinate?
P.S. Thanks for answering
Serious Eats (www.seriouseats.com) has a recipe for tacos carne asada on the front page right now. The marinade given should work equally well for beef in a quesadilla.
I looked at both recipes, many thanks.
I discover I’m out of chili powder. Who runs out of chili powder? I had a packet of hot taco seasoning so I threw that in.
I eyeballed all the ingredients from Labdads recipe and put everything in a big bowl along with the meat. Hopefully it will turn out well. If not I’m sure it will be my fault.
If anyone else has any other recipes I would be curious to hear them for next time.