Help needed quick: Flank steak fajitas in skillet

**Ted Logan** · 03-02-2011, 03:02 PM

I just realized I don't know what I'm doing. I cooked a couple strip steaks last week in the skillet and they turned out awesome. Today, I'm supposed to be cooking fajitas. I figured I'd just cook the flank steak like the strips - sear in the skillet, finish in the oven, and slice after resting them.

I have a packet of fajita seasoning that I figured I'd just rub on the steak before searing.

PROBLEM, CHEF?

Seriously, though. Will this work?

**Role Modlin** · 03-02-2011, 03:24 PM

It should.

***Pauler*** · 03-02-2011, 03:40 PM

just make sure to cut against the grain rather than with it. flank steak can be especially tough if you cut along the grain.

**Rainer.** · 03-02-2011, 03:44 PM

Sounds good to me.

+1 on the cutting.

**Ted Logan** · 03-02-2011, 04:07 PM

Thanks, fellas.

One thing I know about flank steak is to cut against the bias

I've cooked it plenty of times on the grill. Just never in the skillet.

**MtlMom** · 03-02-2011, 06:49 PM

How was it?

**Ted Logan** · 03-02-2011, 07:31 PM

It was all right. I shouldn't have used the seasoning mix. I should have just used kosher salt and maybe some cumin or something. The seasonings overpowered the meat

S.B.Nichols · 03-02-2011, 08:03 PM

We do this often. Flank steak in the cast iron....little kosher, salt, celery salt, cumin, pepper....if the steak is too lean, I might marinate it in some soy sauce and cut the kosher a bit.