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Hawaiian Steak Flautas with Pineapple Salsa

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Hawaiian Steak Flautas with Pineapple Salsa

Everyone will love these Hawaiian Steak Flautas with Pineapple Salsa. I mean EVERYONE and I mean LOVE. My family went wild for these and couldn’t say enough about the tangy Hawaiian barbecued meat combined perfectly with the sweet and tangy pineapple salsa. The presentation is fun and tasty in a tightly wrapped tortilla that makes for easy hands-on eating. For a more formal dinner-party, try serving the meat and salsa on top of a flavorful basmati rice.

The steak filling in the flautas begins with diced flank steak that becomes instantly tender. Next, add full-bodied barbecue and adobo sauce, seasoned with chili powder, smoked paprika, ground ginger and cumin. Red onion adds bite and fresh pineapple adds a sweet tang and texture for even more complexity to the meat.

 

Simple Pineapple Salsa

This pineapple salsa is quick and easy but don’t be unimpressed by its simplicity. Made with fresh pineapple, red onion and green bell pepper. A bit of adobo sauce from the chipotles that you used in the meat mixture brings everything together and the addition of ground ginger to the salsa gives a Polynesian flair.

 

Hawaiian Steak Flautas with Pineapple Salsa

The flauta filling calls for just a 1/2 cup of barbecue sauce so make this step really count. Use your favorite, good quality barbecue sauce. This Simple Barbecue Sauce is one of mine. This is one of those sauces you can cook on the stove anytime because you already have all the ingredients in your pantry. If you haven’t made your own barbecue sauce before, try it. There is a difference in tasting fresh, quality ingredients vs. bottled sauce with preservatives added in.

 

Steak Flautas Hawaiian Style

I assembled the flautas using 12-inch flour tortillas but feel free to use whatever size you like. I cut off about a third of the tortillas before I roll them, otherwise the flautas are nearly double-rolled in tortillas.

Hawaiian Steak Flautas with Pineapple Salsa

Served on top of a simple cabbage slaw topped with the pineapple salsa and more meat filling, this meal is satisfying and healthy. Easily adaptable for more heat and if you’re a cilantro fan, sprinkle some over the finished dish or add to the salsa. (I’m not so I didn’t.)

Hawaiian Steak Flautas with Pineapple Salsa

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Hawaiian Steak Flautas with Pineapple Salsa

The salsa and steak filling can be made up to a day ahead for this great recipe. I used 12-inch flour tortillas with about 1/3 of the tortilla cut off to there's more filling and less tortilla. You can use any size tortilla you like.
Course Main Course
Cuisine Hawaiian Barbecue
Prep Time 15 minutes
Cook Time 20 minutes
Total Time 35 minutes
Author Good Dinner Mom

Ingredients 

  • 8-10 12-inch flour tortillas
  • Pineapple Salsa
  • 2 cups fresh pineapple chopped
  • 1 red onion finely chopped, divided (put 1/2 in salsa)
  • 1 green bell pepper diced
  • 1/4 teaspoon ground ginger
  • 1/4 teaspoon adobo sauce
  • from can of chipotle peppers in adobo sauce
  • Flauta Filling
  • 1 /12 pounds flank steak diced*
  • Remaining red onion from salsa
  • 2 tbsp olive oil
  • 2 cloves garlic minced
  • Salt and pepper to taste
  • 1/2 cup barbecue sauce
  • 2 teaspoons chili powder
  • 1/2 teaspoon smoked paprika
  • 1/2 teaspoon ginger
  • 1/4 teaspoon ground cumin
  • 1 teaspoon chipotle pepper in adobo sauce minced (more if you want a lot of heat)
  • 1 cup fresh pineapple chopped
  • 1/2 cup shredded cheddar cheese
  • *You can substitute ground meat but the texture is not quite the same

Instructions

  • Combine salsa ingredients in a medium bowl and set aside in the fridge.
  • Heat olive oil in large skillet over medium heat. Add steak and red onions, season with salt and pepper, and cook until steak is mostly cooked through. Add garlic and sauté another 30 seconds.
  • Add remaining filling ingredients and simmer for 3-5 minutes, or until steak is cooked through and barbecue sauce is warmed. Remove from heat and stir in 1/2 cup cheese. Taste and adjust seasonings and heat as desired.
  • Preheat oven to 350 degrees and line a baking tray with foil and place a baking rack on top of it.
  • Divide flauta filling evenly between tortillas and roll as tightly as possible. If you like, save some of the filling to be served on top of the flautas. Optionally, cut off about 1/3 of the tortillas before rolling if you want less tortilla.
  • Brush both sides of each flauta lightly with olive oil, and place on rack, seam side down.
  • Cook flautas for 10 minutes, then turn oven to broil. Broil flautas until golden brown, 2-3 minutes, watching closely so they don’t burn. Flip flautas over and broil the other side until crispy.
  • Top individual servings of flautas with more filling or barbecue sauce and pineapple salsa.
  • Cook's note: This filling and salsa is so delicious, it would also be great served over rice rather than wrapped in the flautas.
  • This recipe made 8 flautas (2 per person). You could use smaller tortillas for more flautas. Serves 4.

Recipe adapted from Carlsbad Cravings.

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Published on July 16, 2014

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  1. jan miley says

    March 14, 2022 at 6:20 AM

    5 stars
    Another GDM recipe that everyone in the family LOVED! These were super easy & delish and the pineapple salsa was amazing! Loved the adobo sauce addition.

    Reply
    • Sally Humeniuk says

      March 15, 2022 at 10:18 AM

      Thank you, Jan! I appreciate you trying multiple recipes here!

      Reply
  2. amy s says

    March 14, 2022 at 6:15 AM

    5 stars
    Wow, so good and easy. I am not the greatest chef and my husband gets tired of the same ol’-same ol’… these flautas really spiced up the dinner table. I used beef and chicken (separately) and regular salsa because I ran out of time. I froze the extra filling and made more two nights later. So good! Thank you Sally these were fantastic!

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    • Sally Humeniuk says

      March 15, 2022 at 10:19 AM

      Hi Amy, I’m so glad you liked these! Thanks for trying the flautas to change things up on your menu!

      Reply

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