Cuban Steak (Bistec Encebollado)

diner524's Note:

This recipe was found online icuban.com by Three Guys from Miami. This recipe adds a touch of lime and fresh cilantro to give the dish a Cuban flavor. This sounds like my kinda of steak!! Posting for ZWT.

• Total Time: 25 mins
• Prep Time: 5 mins
• Cook Time: 20 mins

Ingredients:

Servings: 4

• 2 lbs sirloin steaks (about 8 ounces per serving)
• 1/4 cup fresh lime juice
• 4 large onions, sliced thin
• 3 garlic cloves, minced
• black pepper
• adobo seasoning
• fresh cilantro, chopped, for garnish
• olive oil (for sauteing onions and steak)

Directions:

1. Using a meat mallet, place the steaks between two pieces of wax paper and pound out to a thickness of 1/4 inch.
2. Heat a small amount of oil in a frying pan at low heat. Sauté onions briefly! They should still be slighty crisp. Remove onions.
3. Sprinkle each steak with Adobo seasoning and black pepper and rub into steaks. Sauté the garlic for one minute in a small amount of olive oil, . Add steaks and sauté to desired doneness in olive oil(or you could grill your steaks). Remove steaks. Deglaze the pan by adding the lime juice and continuing to heat, stirring constantly. Cook long enough to reduce (thicken) somewhat.
4. Cover each steak with the fried onions. Pour sauce over steaks and sprinkle with chopped cilantro.

Reviews

[Debbwl]

Super yummy! The lime and cilantro add a wonderful fresh flavor to the full bodied flavor of the steak and the spiciness of the adobo (do not scrimp on the adobo). Made as written using think sliced steaks (they sell thin sliced steaks for Mexican cooking here), which cooked up in about 1-2 minutes per side. This are really good sliced up and placed in a corn tortilla. Thanks so much for the post.