Rio Grande Beef Burritos

Total Time: 35 mins Preparation Time: 15 mins Cook Time: 20 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 2
• 8 ounces skirt steaks or 8 ounces flank steaks
• 1 large garlic clove, crushed
• 1/4 teaspoon ground cumin
• 2 1/2 tablespoons olive oil, divided
• 1 1/2 teaspoons fresh lime juice
• 1 large onion, thinly sliced
• 2 fresh anaheim chilies, roasted, peeled, seeded, cut into thin strips or 2 canned whole green chilies, seeded, cut into thin strips
• 1 (7 ounce) jar roasted red peppers, drained, cut into thin strips
• 1/2 cup whipping cream (i used half and half)
• 1 1/4 cups grated monterey jack cheese, divided
• 1/2 teaspoon dried oregano, crumbled
• 4 (8 inch) flour tortillas

Recipe

• 1 preheat oven to 450°f.
• 2 grease 9-inch square baking pan.
• 3 rub both sides of steak with garlic and cumin, then with 1 1/2 teaspoons oil and lime juice. let stand while preparing peppers.
• 4 heat 1 tablespoon oil in heavy medium skillet over medium-high heat.
• 5 add onion and cook until beginning to brown, stirring frequently, about 6 minutes.
• 6 add chiles and peppers and stir until heated through.
• 7 add cream, then 3/4 cup cheese and stir until mixture thickens, about 1 minute.
• 8 add oregano. season with salt and pepper.
• 9 heat 1 tablespoon oil in heavy large skillet over high heat.
• 10 season steak with salt and pepper. cook until brown, about 1 1/2 minutes per side for very rare.
• 11 transfer to work surface. halve across width, then cut against grain into thin slices.
• 12 hold 1 tortilla over gas burner on low or place on electric burner on low until heated through, about 15 seconds per side. place tortilla on work surface. spoon 1/4 cup pepper mixture down center of tortilla. top with 1/4 of meat. roll up tortilla, enclosing filling.
• 13 arrange in baking pan, seam side down. repeat with remaining tortillas, 3/4 cup pepper mixture, and remaining meat.
• 14 spoon remaining pepper mixture over tortillas.
• 15 sprinkle with 1/2 cup cheese.
• 16 bake uncovered until cheese melts, 5 to 10 minutes.