Flank Steak with Color Peppers

If you like the Fajita when you go to the Mexican restaurant.  You will like this smoky, savor, but bright flavor for flank steak, alone with sweet colorful peppers and different texture from green bean and onion.  You will find out, life is pretty good!

Marinate time:  1 hour or over night
Preparation time: 10 minutes.
Cooking time: 15 minutes. 

Serve: 4 people. 

Ingredient:

1.  1 flank steak cut in to 4 pieced.

2.  Half each yellow, orange, red peppers seeded sliced about pinkie size.

3. Half large size onion sliced.

4. 1 handful, about 20 Green beans cut it half, blanch in the hot broil salty water until color turn a little darker, but texture still remain crunch about 3- 4 minutes, then rinse it with cool water. Set aside.

5. 4-5 clove garlic rough chopped.

Flavor:

Beef marinate

1.  1 tablespoon garlic powder.

2.  1 teaspoon oregano powder.

3.  1 teaspoon smoke paprika.

4.  1/4 cup soy sauce.

5.  1 tablespoon light rum, and 1 tablespoon for saute vegetable.

6.  1 tablespoon catch up.

7.  1 lime zest and juiced.

8.  Salt and red pepper.  Some more for vegetable.

* cast iron pan can carry heat well, good for seal steak!

Drain the steaks from the marine liquid well, brush lightly with vegetable oil on top.

High heat, bring the pan to smoking hot point, add in vegetable oil just enough to coat the pan, place in the steaks, leave it alone, turn when the bottom side are sealed with dark golden brown color.  you can take a peek to figure it out, but the key it " leave it alone, do not touch it, or even press it ".   Finish to seal other side, about 6-8 minutes for total. ( Depend on the thickness of your steaks ) cook steak about rare or medium rare, take it out, cover it with foil, and aside, and let it rest about 3-5 minutes.

Slice against the grand thin about 0.5 mm.  * If you cook flank steak well done, it will be very tough to eat!

Kill the heat if the pan is too hot! In Same pan, add a little more oil as if you need it, then the garlic saute till fragrance,  go in with all the peppers and green beans, keep high heat,  stir well or flip the pan, add in the salt and red peppers, finish with 1 tablespoon rum.  Kill the heat, put back the steaks on top, sprinkle diced scallion and cilantro, serve hot!

* If you like spicy, add in the jalapeno seeded and thin sliced, when you saute the vegetable.  It will take you to the heaven. Ha ha!

Lucy's way to find out how steak are cooked without using thermometer.

First picture below:  Relax the Palm, touch and feel the place right under thumb, if it's soft , that is rare.
Second picture below: open your hand without pressure.  Touch the same spot, if it's firm, but tender, that is medium.
Third picture below:  open your hand with force, muscle will be tight.  That is well done!

Enjoy the goodness !😋😋😋😋😋