Rio’s iconic Fajita recipe

By TAMARA MARKARD

The sizzling sound of fajitas, with its billowing plumes of steam and savory smells of grilled peppers and onions has caused many a head to turn in Mexican restaurants as servers glide by with black cast iron skillets on wooden platters to deliver the dish to its excited recipients.

While the delivery of the dish is a glorious production, the taste is often no less spectacular.

The restaurant has been preparing fajitas for more than 30 years, said Emily Tracy with ROOT Marketing and PR. The popular Mexican chain has served over 24,000 orders of steak fajitas a year, making the dish the restaurant’s most popular entrée since they opened.

So is your mouth watering yet?

Marinade Recipe

Makes six cups

1.5 cups pineapple juice

1 cups soy sauce

1/2 cup Worcestershire sauce

1 Tbsp chopped garlic

2 and 3/4 Tbsp brown sugar

9 fl oz orange juice

1 and 3/4 fl oz lime juice

1 and 3/4 cups water

1 and 3/4 Tbsp kosher salt

Meat

1 pound of skirt steak

Fixings (optional)

Warmed tortillas, black beans, rice, pico de gallo, guacamole, grilled vegetables

Instructions

Mix all marinade ingredients. Set aside a portion of marinade to drizzle on top of your meat after cooking.

Marinate the meat in four ounces of the marinade for one hour. (For every pound of meat, use four ounces of marinade.)

Remove meat from marinade and grill on a hot grill until medium/medium rare or your doneness preference. Keep in mind that residual heat will continue to cook the meat as it rests.

Remove from grill and let rest for 10 minutes.

Cut meat against the grain, drizzle with some reserved marinade and serve with your favorite accompaniments like a “build your own fajita taco.”

Serve alongside grilled vegetables. We like sweet yellow onions, red and green peppers, and roma tomatoes.

At the restaurant, we also serve our fajitas with warmed homemade tortillas, black beans, Spanish rice, pico de gallo and guacamole.

For more fajita recipes, take a look at these options:

Taste of Home has a flavorful recipe for chicken fajitas. Check out the ingredients at https://bit.ly/34bnoDt.

Substitute steak or chicken fajitas with pork. Go to https://bit.ly/3kTR51L for the full recipe as well as how to make your own guacamole.

If you’re hankering for some seafood fajitas, take a peek at this quick and easy recipe from allrecipes.com.

Go meatless with this vegetarian fajita recipe that includes zucchini, cauliflower, broccoli, corn and carrots at https://bit.ly/318CNSZ.