Beef Fajita Salad with Creamy Lime Yogurt Dressing is a hearty salad that can be served at your next fiesta.
Since Cinco de Mayo is tomorrow, you can run to the grocery store and get these simple ingredients today. Your family and friends will enjoy digging into this salad.
The warmer months of the year are getting here and I really love making salads into entrees when the weather is hot outside.
This salad is a great low-carb alternative to eating traditional fajitas. The warm seasoned beef and pepper/onion mixture is a great way to make a salad into a meal.
I had to make a crispy topping to add some "crunch" to my salad. I simply fried some tortilla strips and a few minutes later I had the perfect accent to this salad.
I decided to make this salad complete with a healthy creamy lime yogurt dressing. This dressing compliments the salad with some of the same seasonings I used to marinate the meat. The tangy, creamy, rich dressing makes you feel like you have a fiesta in your mouth.
All I needed was a fork and a glass of my pink grapefruit margarita to make me want to say "ole'!!"
Fajita Salad with Lime Yogurt Dressing
Recipe by Ramona from Kitchen Simmer
Ingredients:
1/3 cup canola oil
1/3 cup soy sauce
2 Tbs brown sugar
1 tsp black pepper
1 tsp garlic powder
1 tsp cumin powder
1 Tbs chili powder (used to make chili con carne)
1 tsp red chili flakes
*Note taste marinade, if you find it needs a little salt, add about 1/2 tsp. I add 1 tsp of Montreal Steak Seasoning as my additional salt.
2 1/2 pounds of beef sirloin (sirloin flap meat is what I used) marinated
2 large onions sliced
1-2 jalapeno peppers finely diced
1 red bell pepper
1 yellow bell pepper
1 green bell pepper
Note: You can use any color peppers you like, you can also use sweet mini peppers
Crispy Tortilla Strips:
2-3 tortillas (depending on size)
1/2 canola oil for frying
salt for seasoning
Creamy Lime Yogurt Dressing:
1 1/2 cups plain full fat yogurt
Juice of 1/2 a lime (about 2 Tbs)
1 Tbs rice vinegar
1 tsp chili powder (used to make chili con carne)
1/2 tsp garlic powder
1/2 tsp cumin powder
salt and black pepper to taste
Fajita Salad:
Romaine Lettuce chopped
tomatoes
cucumbers
olives (black or green)
Fajita topping (meat, peppers and onions)
Creamy Lime Yogurt Salad Dressing
Directions:
While the meat is resting make the pepper and onion mixture. Heat a pan with 1 Tbs canola oil and saute with a little salt and black pepper. I also added some of the juices from the baking pan with the fajita meat into the pepper and onions.
To make the Salad Dressing and Crispy Tortilla Strips:
Note: Adjust ingredients to taste.
Tortillas: Cut into thin strips 2 inch strips.
Assemble Fajita Salad:
1. Chop and prepare all green salad ingredients.
2. Top with warm fajita meat and pepper/onion mixture
3. Top with salad dressing as desired
4. Top with crispy tortilla strips.
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