How to Make Beef Fajitas

METHOD: Direct grilling

ADVANCE PREPARATION: 40 minutes to 1 hour for marinating the meat

It’s hard to remember when cuisine in the United States didn’t include fajitas, but there was a time when this Tex-Mex classic would have seemed positively exotic. Who knew that an inexpensive cut of beef—the skirt steak—would become one of America’s most popular party foods? Well, what skirt steak may lack in refinement (it’s a narrow, stringy piece of meat), it certainly makes up for in flavor.