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ByTheresa Huse
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Are you looking for a grilled steak recipe? We love to grill and creating Central, CA. style recipes (known as Santa Maria-style steak). I am sharing how we make our Steak Carne Asada at home. We love grilled recipes and sharing them with you.
Who wants to put the fun back into weeknights and their dinners? Grilling not only is easy, it’s fun. Here’s why: #1 it doesn’t heat up the kitchen, because the steak is cooked on a grill #2 makes clean up easy which leaves more time for fun! #3 You’ll love to eat grilled food that’s fresh and tasty! I’ll show you how easy it is to marinate the steaks along with creating colorful side dishes for a quick, easy grilled meal to use any day of the week.
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What’s great about this Steak Carne Asada is that it is a marinated steakrecipe in a Verde marinade. You can make the marinade, and prep the side dishes ahead of time! Or make it on the same day if you like.
Steak Carne Asada
Steak is one of our family favorites and living in Central, California gives you plenty of time for grilling. The weather here has the best, spring and fall seasons! My family loves a nice tender, juicy cut of steak that had been cooked to perfection. What about yours?
This 30-minute meal will have them satisfied and ready for an evening walk, playing games… What’s not to love about a quick dinner that you can serve up any day of the week!? Perfect for allowing you more time for fun in your evenings?!
For me, it’s all about making it easier at dinner time. I enjoy creating easy recipes everyone can enjoy! I have a hungry teen at home. Quite often you’ll find me making an appetizer to hold her over. I also love adding lots of fresh vegetables and fruits for our meals. When eating marinated steak this way you can squeeze lime on it. Oh, so good!
What types of steak is used for Carne Asada?
Traditionally, Carne Asada is made with a flank or skirt steak and sliced thinly. But, you can also use a good steak like sirloin or a Tri-tip roast sliced thinly.
It is also served with tortillas.
How To Grill Corn
Grilled Mexican Corn
Let me share how easy it is to make this grilled Mexican Style Corn and Marinated Steak Recipe giving you a juicy and flavorful finish that everyone will love.
- Open the corn husks slightly, wash off and pat dry the corn.
- Spread butter and Parmesan Cheese
on the corn. - Then sprinkle the corn with paprika, fold husks back on.
- Next put the corn on a microwave-safe plate to microwave.
- Microwave the corn for approx 5-8 minutes per corn. (Example 3 corn approx 20 min. on one plate)
- Now they are ready to be grilled with husks on cutting down the time.
- Grill with husks on and for about the same amount of time steaks are being cooked.
on the corn.
, fold husks back on.We used sweet corn for our recipe but, any corn will do.
How To Make Carne Asada
Carne Asada Verde
Steak Marinade Central, California Style
The steak marinade is easy to make!
- Take your garlic cloves and peel them
- Slice a quarter to half of your poblano chili pepper
- Slice the jalapeno chili pepper (use gloves and seed chili peppers)
- Take a large handful of cilantro with the stems cut off
- Add olive oil and oregano.
- Toss them into the food processor.
- Then squeeze half a lime’s juice and blend until chopped finely but, don’t over-process.
- Spread mixture on the steaks and grind black pepper onto the steaks.
- Then place the steaks and mixture into a plastic bag (We use food storage bags for marinating the steak) or dish covered with saran wrapand refrigerate a minimum of 30-40 minutes up to 2 hours. The longer the better! You can even do this way ahead of time, like the night before.
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for marinating the steak) or dish covered with 
Take out the marinated steak. Let the steak get to more of room temperature, before putting it onto the grill. Then add to the steak on the grill.
- NOTE: Toss plastic bag with extra marinade. Do not use excess marinate, unless you are cooking it as shown in the photo.
- This recipe makes enough for 4 -6 steaks.
Carne Asada Steak Recipe
An easy delicious way to marinate your steak to have it flavorful and juicy! Perfect for barbecuing.
Steak Carne Asada
Yield: 4
Grilled Steak: Marinated Steak Carne Asada Verde CA Style
Are you ready to make grilled steak? You will love this Carne Asada Steak! It's marinated in a green (Verde) marinade, then grilled and sliced thinly. This is also known as a Santa Maria style steak. See how to make Carne Asada Verde, grilled corn, and the sides that pair perfectly with your steaks.
Prep Time45 minutes
Cook Time16 minutes
Additional Time10 minutes
Total Time1 hour 11 minutes
Ingredients
- 4 Steaks (flank steak, skirt steak, sirloin steak, or tri-tip roast that has been sliced)
- 3-4 garlic cloves
- cilantro large handful at least 1/2 cup
- 1 lime
- 1 poblano chile pepper and or jalapeno seeded
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- 1 teaspoon oregano
Instructions
- Peel garlic and put three cloves in your food processor (or chop finely)
- Wash and seed your chile pepper put in your food processor or finely chop
- Add the juice of half a lime
- Add 2 tablespoons of Olive Oil
- Add 1 teaspoon oregano
- Next blend all ingredients in a food processor / or if chopped add together and stir.
- Then spread over the steaks.
- Grind Black pepper onto each steak.
- Put into a plastic bag or dish adding extra.If using a dish cover with saran wrap.
- Grill your steak on a high heat 8-10 minutes on each side.
- Let the grilled steak rest
- Slice and serve!
Notes
- Let steak marinate at least 30 - 45 minutes.
- Do not reuse marinade if it has touched the meat or put in the bag.
- Spread excess on steaks to be cooked or toss.
- If you have little kids you can reserve a steak without the marinade.Just salt, pepper and lightly use garlic powder.
- This isn't spicy as the peppers have been seeded.
- Let your steak rest 5 minutes before slicing
Nutrition Information
Yield
4Serving Size
1
Amount Per ServingCalories 695Total Fat 48gSaturated Fat 17gTrans Fat 0gUnsaturated Fat 24gCholesterol 214mgSodium 119mgCarbohydrates 5gFiber 1gSugar 1gProtein 59g
Not all nutritional information is always 100% accurate.
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Find our salsa recipes and (appetizer recipes here) I made to go with this grilled recipe. The salsas were: Salsa Verde and a Fresh Strawberry Avocado Salsa.
- Like this recipe, you might like trying to make your own green enchilada sauce.
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Looking for other Carne Asada Steak recipes to try? We spotted a few that are on our list for when we want a change from our recipe.
- This Carne Asada Steak recipe made with flank or skirt steak.
- This Carne Asada made similarly but, added orange juice and lime juice.
Find our salsa recipes and (appetizer recipes here).
Shopping in Central, California
Where can you get all your groceries in one place for this recipe?
One thing that makes it easy for us is grabbing all my groceries and weekly needs at our favorite warehouse store Smart & Final. It’s really convenient and there are great brand choices! The fresh fruits, veggies, and meats are the best! I’m always trying to think ahead to keep things simple for our busy lifestyle. Knowing I’ll have steak leftovers I grab things like Mexican rice and La Romanella tomato sauce, which makes a perfect side dish for our next nights’ meal.
We also love stocking up on drinks for summer, Simple Value non-food products, and their First Street brand products. The quality is amazing and prices are perfect for saving you money.
Above is where we purchased our food storage bags and ramekin dishes
for serving salsas
. This is just one of the isles in our local store where we shopped for our groceries for this steak recipe we shared with you today!
I made to go with this grilled recipe. The salsas were: Salsa Verde and a Fresh Strawberry Avocado Salsa.
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What is your favorite thing to grill? What activities keep you busy all year round?
