It is best to plan for this a day in advance. creates consistently delicious fajitas with zest. Excellent for chicken OR beef.
| Prep Time: | 15 mins |
| Additional Time: | 1 day |
| Total Time: | 1 day 15 mins |
| Servings: | 4 |
| Yield: | 3 /4 cup |
Ingredients
- 3 limes, juiced
- 2 green onions, chopped
- 3 cloves garlic, minced
- 3 tablespoons chopped fresh cilantro
- 2 tablespoons vegetable oil
- ½ teaspoon red pepper flakes
- ¼ teaspoon ground coriander
- ¼ teaspoon ground anise seed
Instructions
- In a medium bowl, combine the lime juice, green onions, garlic, cilantro, oil, red pepper, coriander, and anise. Whisk until well blended.
- Pour mixture over your favorite meat, cover, and marinate for 12 to 24 hours before cooking as desired.
Reviews
No cilantro, 1 lemon and half a lime
Love this
Awesome recipe thank you for sharing. I have since started to stray a bit from the recipe by adding other ingredients and using diffrent cuts of meat. In my opinion you will enjoy the results if you follow the recipe and then tweak it next time you try it. Fresh ingredients, less lime and skirt steak on a grill seem to work for me. cheers and have fun.
Really good marinade, cut the lime juice by 1 whole lime.
This was very good! This will be my marinade for any fiesta type chicken from now on, I’m thinking next time I will do burritos with Rice and Black Beans. My only critiques are that I would use a little less Lime than called for, maybe 1.5 limes vs. 2 limes. Also, I was hoping with the red pepper flakes that this would have a kick but it was not spicy at all. I added some ceyenne pepper and it was PERFECT!
This was a good recipe and I have made it multiple times. I would give it a try!
I have made this a few times substituting cumin for coriander. Definitely don’t marinate as long as suggested especially if using chicken and shrimp. I did steak for 3 hours, add chicken in the last hour and a half, and shrimp when we started the charcoal grill. The taste of lime in the steak was really strong when tasting the steak by itself, but it blended perfectly in a fajita. This is not a marinade for a steak dinner but for fajitas and in fajitas it works.
This was great but I left out the anise and only had 1/2 of a lime so I used that and one lemon. I also used olive oil and doubled it. Will make again.
This marinade was excellent! I thought the cilantro was going to be too strong, but it wasn’t at all. The only change I made was to omit the anise seed, only because I didn’t have any and couldn’t find it in the grocery store. I also added about 1/4 tsp. of cumin. This tastes restaurant quality – hubby and I both loved it. Even my finicky teen didn’t mind it. Will definitely be using again!
After trying many different approaches to beef fajitas — this is now my favorite, go to recipe. I used this Saturday night for dinner — and even though I only had 1 hour to marinate the meat, the flavor turned out great. Don’t skip the anise, it adds a unique, distinctive flavor which is really nice. For meat, I used the tri-tip steaks from costco and cut them into strips before marinating.
Tried this recipe but added 2tsp of soy sauce and replaced the coriander with lemon zest. Marinated flank steak and chicken breast but I only had 6hours to marinate. I cooked both meats on the grill and my guests loved them!
It was ok….felt like it was missing something, so I added cumin. It was better!
This has become my favorite fajita recipe. The only changes I make are adding a teaspoon or so of my adobo seasoning(Traci’s Adobo on here minus the salt)and sometimes some chipotle pepper or cayenne as well. I have made it with two and three limes but don’t find it makes too much of a change in the “lime” level some people complain about. This reminds me of Texas fajitas.
I was really apprehensive about this recipe because I am not a big cilantro fan but this turned out great! I only used half of the pepper flakes since my daughter doesn’t like food that is too spicy but I will certainly be recommending this to friends!
Loved it! Didn’t use anise. Marinated for only 6 hours and it turned out great.
These were excellent I forgot the green onions, but man they were awesome will definitely make again we used chicken. LOVED IT!
Super moist!
This was just so good! I won’t lie, I didn’t exactly follow the measurements. I “eyeballed” it, but I used all fresh ingredients. I put the chicken and steak in my Food saver marinator. Put them on the grill, and they turned out so tasty. They were a huge hit for our Cinco de Mayo party. I will use them from now on for fajitas (and probably just as a regular marinade).
I was looking for something to give some chicken a little kick for using on pizza and this is perfect. Thanks!
This was very very lime-y. It was not a problem for me but my husband refused to eat it.
I marinated two grassfed top sirloin steaks in this for about 30 hours, and the fajitas were very good. It didn’t tenderize as much as I had hoped, but the flavor was nice. I used the full amount of lime juice but added some homemade chicken broth after reading other reviews and I am glad that I did, otherwise it would have been too limey for us. I also added a tiny bit of cumin. Next time I would add more cumin and maybe some chipotle chili pepper and some cayenne too. I didn’t think a whole lot of flavor came through beyond the lime. Thanks for the recipe.