Churrasco (Skirt Steak) with a Soy and Mustard Marinade

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Skirt steak marinated in soy sauce, vinegar, lemon, mustard and garlic for half an hour, then grilled four or five minutes a side. Forty-five minutes in all, and the marinade does the work.

Prep Time5

Cook Time10

Marinating30

Total Time45

Course: Main Course

Cuisine: Colombian

Keyword: churrasco, grilled meat

Servings:

Calories: 1253kcal

Author: Angela Giraldo

Ingredients

500 g skirt steak churrasco
½ cup soy sauce
¼ cup oil
3 tablespoons white vinegar
2 tablespoons lemon juice
2 tablespoons Dijon mustard
3 cloves garlic finely chopped
1 teaspoon dried oregano
½ onion cut into thin slices
Salt and pepper

Instructions

In a ziplock bag or a bowl, mix the oil, the vinegar, the soy sauce, the lemon juice, the mustard, the garlic, the onion and the dried oregano.
Put the meat in, turn it so it is covered by the marinade, seal the bag or cover the bowl, and leave it for at least 30 minutes.
Heat a little oil in a pan or on a griddle over medium-high heat and cook the churrasco for about 4 or 5 minutes a side, depending on its thickness and how you want it done.
Season with salt and pepper, take it off the heat and serve.

Notes

Churrasco is the cut, not the dish. In Colombia it means skirt steak: a long, flat, coarse-grained piece from the belly with a great deal of flavour and a tendency to go tough if it is overcooked. That grain is why the marinade matters and why the slicing does too. Half a cup of soy sauce is doing the salting, which is why the salt only appears at the end. Do not add more before it goes in the pan. Thirty minutes is the minimum and a couple of hours is better; the acid from the vinegar and lemon works on the surface and the soy carries the flavour in. Four or five minutes a side over medium-high heat gives a steak still pink in the middle, which is what this cut wants. Cooked through, skirt steak turns chewy. Let it rest a few minutes and slice it against the grain, at an angle: with the grain it is stringy no matter how well it was cooked.

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