Super Tasty Steak and Shrimp Fajitas

When deciding to make steak or shrimp fajitas, you might as well do both and make steak and shrimp fajitas! The ultimate surf and turf dinner. How to make delicious fajitas is relatively easy as this great meal is made with leftover steak for a weeknight dinner. No need to spend time prepping and marinating the steak for this fajita recipe. This is a sheet pan recipe, which makes less dishes!

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Ingredients:

• Butter – helps cook the shrimp. Canola oil can be a substitute. 
• Shrimp – main part of recipe.  You can use large shrimp and cut them in half to make them go farther, or leave them whole. Any shrimp would work for this shrimp fajita recipe. 
• Leftover steak – beef portion of recipe. Since the steak is already cooked, you don’t have to worry about the internal temperature being too cold. 
• Chopped bell pepper – provides flavor and color. You can use green bell peppers or red bell peppers. 
• Chopped white onion – adds flavor for the fajita veggies.
• Minced garlic – adds amazing flavor. You can use garlic powder if you would like. 
• Flour tortillas – My favorite type of tortillas is flour, but you can also use corn tortillas or lettuce wraps to serve
• Fajita seasoning – seasoning for the recipe

How to Make Cooking Fajitas Easy:

There is a couple of different ways to prepare this meal as well. In the picture, I assembled the steak fajitas a different way than they are traditionally served at a restaurant. In a restaurant, the waiter usually comes out with a frying pan of steak and shrimp with peppers. Then, a container of warm tortillas to assemble yourself along with a plate of toppings. I like melted cheese on my shrimp fajitas though. I fried each tortilla in a skillet with melted cheese, and added the steak and shrimp. Then, folded it over for the picture. There is a gap at the top so I could hold it like a hard taco shell and then put lettuce, sour cream, salsa, and guacamole at the top. 

Best Steak for Fajitas:

For this recipe, I used leftover sirloin tip steak. Fajitas are a great way to use leftover steak as all the seasonings and sauces cover up the dry, leftover steak. You can also use flank steak or cube steak instead.

What to Serve with Homemade Steak and Shrimp Fajitas

Homemade tortillas! I love serving these fajitas with freshly shredded cheese on a homemade tortilla. Sour cream, salsa, fresh onions, cilantro, and guacamole are super good on top! If you are feeling extra flavor, I recommend adding beans or rice to the tortilla shell as well.

Variations of Steak and Shrimp Fajitas

• Add other proteins-if you want additional protein to your Mexican fajitas, you can add chicken, black beans, or hamburger! Some people like to add tofu as well.
• Cast iron skillet-you can make the steak and shrimp fajitas in a cast iron skillet if you so wish. Prepare the same as the steak and shrimp fajitas stove top directions say but use the cast iron!
• Oven-you can make the shrimp fajitas in the oven. Just preheat oven to 375 degrees and place shrimp and steak pieces on a sprayed baking sheet. Place in oven for about 10 minutes or until the steak is heated throughout and shrimp is curled.
• Air fryer-air fryer steak and shrimp fajitas can be super tasty. If going this method though, I do not recommend putting the shrimp and steak in the air fryer at the same time. The steak might get too crispy in the air fryer, and most people like their steak kind of chewy still without a hard coating. Put the shrimp in the air fryer first for about 5 minutes until the ends start to curl, then add the steak to heat it up. You can also microwave the steak to warm it up as well if you would like since this easy recipe is using leftover steak.
• Griddle-if you have your griddle out from breakfast still, you can make steak and shrimp fajitas on blackstone grill just like you would on regular stove top.
• Add other seasonings-if there is a favorite seasoning of yours such as chili powder or black pepper that I did not add to the recipe, you can definitely add it at your own accord.

How to store steak and shrimp fajitas

• Fridge – store this recipe in an airtight container in the refrigerator for up to one week
• Freezer – I have not tried freezing this recipe. I do not think it would freeze and thaw very well. If you would like to try it, go for it! Let me know how it goes. 

Check out my other Mexican recipes

• chicken burrito skillet
• birria tacos
• sheet pan shrimp fajitas

Beef and Shrimp Fajitas No Marinate

Bring the best kinds of fajitas together by making this steak and shrimp fajitas recipe. This steak fajitas recipe uses leftover steak.

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Prep Time 5 minutes mins

Cook Time 10 minutes mins

Total Time 15 minutes mins

Course Main Course

Cuisine Mexican

Servings 4 people

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Ingredients

  

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• 4 tbsp butter
• 2 cups shrimp
• 2 cups leftover steak
• 1/4 cup chopped bell pepper
• 1/4 cup chopped onion
• 2 tbsp minced garlic
• 4 tortillas
• 3 tbsp fajitas seasoning
• 1/2 tsp both salt and pepper

Instructions

 

• In a large skillet, melt 2 tbsp butter. Add shrimp and cook until tails curl.
• Add 2 tbsp of butter, and toss in leftover steak, bell pepper, onion, and garlic. Sprinkle seasonings on top. Cook until steak is warm throughout and flavors are blended.
• For assembly, place mixture in tortillas. Top off with lettuce, cheese, sour cream, pico de gallo, salsa, guacamole, etc. Drizzle with lime juice.  

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