Chapter 05 · Bring Your Own Protein
Steak Mexican Bowl
Everything you wanted from the burrito place, minus the line.
- Time
- 20 MIN
- Serves
- 4 (1 LB COOKED STEAK)
- Skill
- PARING KNIFE
- Tools
- KNIFE, BOARD, BOWL
- Heat
- Warm
- Protein
- Bring your own
Sliced steak over crisp romaine with black beans, corn, fresh pico, avocado and a lime crema. It is a build-your-own bowl, which makes it a good family dinner: put everything out and let people assemble. Leftover grilled steak is ideal, and it is actually easier to slice thin when it is cold.
The lineup
- 1/3 cup sour cream
- 2 tbsp lime juice
- 1/2 tsp ground cumin
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 1 lb cooked steak, such as flank, skirt or sirloin, sliced thin against the grain
- 2 romaine hearts, chopped
- 1 can (15 oz) black beans, drained and rinsed
- 1 can (about 15 oz) corn, drained
- 4 plum tomatoes, seeded and diced small
- 1 shallot, minced
- 1 jalapeno, seeded and minced
- 1 large handful fresh cilantro, chopped
- 2 ripe avocados, diced
- Tortilla chips, for crunch
The chop
- Stir the sour cream, 1 tbsp of the lime juice, cumin and salt in the bowl. Scrape the crema into a small dish and wipe out the bowl.
- Toss the tomatoes, shallot, jalapeno, cilantro and remaining lime juice in the bowl with a pinch of salt. That is the pico.
- Divide the romaine among four bowls.
- Top with the beans, corn, steak, avocado and pico.
- Drizzle with the crema and crush a few chips over the top.
The extras
Dodge the Carbs
Leave out the beans, corn and chips. Steak, romaine, pico, avocado and crema make a genuinely low-carb bowl.
Future You
Slice the steak and make the pico and crema a day ahead. Build the bowls when you are ready to eat.
Show Off
Swap the crema for Raw Tomatillo Salsa, or add Street Corn Chop in place of the plain corn.
Flavor Bomb
Spoon Chimichurri over the steak, or swap the lime crema for Chipotle-Lime Mayo.
Heat Dial
Mild: leave out the jalapeno. Warm: seeded jalapeno, as written. Hot: seeds in, Chipotle-Lime Mayo made with 2 chiles, and hot sauce on the table.
Psst
No steak? A tub of store-bought carnitas or the meat from 1 rotisserie chicken works the same way.
