A Week Of Misc. Recipes: Lime Marinade

Since we like Mexican inspired food, I am always looking for new recipes. My searching lead me to find this lime marinade in a owner's manual for the new Oster DuraCeramic Electric Skillet. (I am going to have to do a simply perfect product post on this electric skillet, because I love it.) The lime marinade is part of a recipe called Easy Beef Fajitas. If you like Mexican inspired food, you will like this recipe and will find other uses for it. Of course, I made changes to the recipe to fit our family's taste.

Lime Marinade

• juice of 2 limes
• 1 Tbsp of olive oil, 
• 1/2 tsp of cumin
• 1/4 tsp of salt (I used garlic salt and left out the minced garlic.)
• 1 clove of minced garlic
• 1/2 tsp of red pepper flakes (I used less.)
• black pepper to taste 

Combine the ingredients above in a bowl. Add beef and allow to stand for 30 minutes at room temperature. If you use this to marinate chicken or fish, I wouldn't leave it at room temp. Drain meat and discard the marinade, then fix meat as desired. 

 

We weren't use to using a lot of lime in recipes, so we were pleasantly surprised by how good meat was marinated in it. Who knew lime marinade was simply a good thing!