Grilled Mojo-Marinated Skirt Steak

Name: Grilled Mojo-Marinated Skirt Steak
Yield: Serves 4 to 6
Ingredients: 6 , garlic cloves, minced; 2 tablespoons, soy sauce; 1 teaspoon, grated lime zest plus ¼ cup juice (2 limes); 1 teaspoon, ground cumin; 1 teaspoon, dried oregano; , Salt; 1/2 teaspoon, grated orange zest plus ½ cup juice; 1/4 teaspoon, red pepper flakes; 2 pounds, skirt steak, trimmed and cut with grain into 6- to 8-inch-long steaks; 2 tablespoons, extra-virgin olive oil; 1 teaspoon, baking soda

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Appears in Cook's Illustrated May/June 2018, America's Test Kitchen TV

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Grilling & Barbecue

If you're not grilling skirt steak, you should be: It's a great cut for marinating, it cooks in minutes, and it's especially beefy, tender, and juicy—as long as you buy the right kind.

SERVES4 to 6

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WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

For this recipe, we chose the outside skirt steak, which is 3 to 4 inches wide, and avoided the wider, far less tender inside skirt steak. To make the most of this steak's ample surface area, we submerged it in a citrusy, garlicky mojo mari...

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