Ingredients
Scale
600g skirt or flank steak
400g tiger Prawns
1 can of chipotle in adobo sauce
200g baby rocket
12 corn tortillas
1 pineapple
330ml of Mexican beer
6 garlic cloves
50ml white tequila
50g sugar
4 limes
2 lemons
1 tomato
10g black pepper
80ml olive oil
salt
Instructions
Surf n’ Turf
- In a bowl, mix 2 garlic cloves minced, beer, the juice of 2 limes, and pepper. Add the steak into the mix and make sure you rub the steak through the marinade mixture and allow it to lay flat to marinate for 1 hour in the fridge, covering with plastic film.
- In a blender add half the can of chipotle, tomato, and 4 garlic cloves. Blend for 45 seconds or until completely smooth, then add salt to season and blend once last time.
- Once smooth, bring the chipotle sauce to a pan and simmer on medium heat stirring constantly. Let the sauce reduce by half making sure it does not burn or stick to the edges of the pan.
- Clean the prawns, by peeling them and deveining them. Follow this process with slicing the prawns in butterfly style, cutting them in half lengthways.
- Season the prawns with salt and pepper and a drizzle of 1 lime.
- Bring a large saucepan to medium heat, drizzle olive oil and add the prawns, stir them quickly for 15 seconds on both sides and then add the chipotle sauce.
- Let the prawns finish cooking in the chipotle and remove from heat.
- Once the steak has marinated for 1 hour, remove it from the bowl and season with salt.
- Slice your steak in 1.5cm slices and reserve. Grill your steak to desired or alternatively finish it up in a pan by searing from both sides and then letting it cook to desired.
- Once done, remove from heat, let rest for 5 minutes on a chopping board.
- Slice your steak in 1.5cm slices and reserve.
Pineapple Salsa
- Remove skin from the pineapple and slice in two.
- Slice one-half of the pineapple again and cut in triangles.
- Get the sliced half of the pineapple in a baking tray, drizzled with olive oil, and roast it for 12 minutes at 200C, or until it changes colour.
- Once it changes colour, remove it from the oven and mix with sugar and tequila, blend for 35 seconds until having a smooth puree.
- Grill the pineapple triangles directly in the oven for 5 minutes.
- Remove from the grill and mix with lemon juice (2 lemons) and salt.
- Mix the two pineapple halves together and incorporate to get the pineapple salsa.
To assemble the tacos
- Warm the corn tortillas in the microwave for 30 seconds, until they are soft and steamy.
- On a plate put one tortilla, add a layer of baby rocket, followed by the marinated steak, then add a couple of prawns in chipotle garlic sauce.
- Finish it up with a generous amount of pineapple salsa and serve with a lime wedge.
Notes
TIP: For a less spicy version, cook the prawns without the chipotle salsa and add the cooked chipotle salsa to the prawns as desired to control the heat.
- Cook Time: 45 minutes