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For The Chipotle Marinade: Place the olive oil, chipotle chiles, lime juice, honey, garlic, cilantro and salt in a blender; puree until smooth.
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For The Mango Salsa: In a medium-size bowl, combine the diced mangoes, black beans, bell pepper, scallions, jalapeno chile, cilantro and lime.
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Prepare Chipotle Marinade as described above.
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In a non-reactive baking dish or a resealable plastic bag, add the steaks and the Chipotle Marinade.
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Refrigerate 3 to 4 hours or overnight.
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Remove steaks from refrigeration 1 hour before cooking and wipe excess marinade off the steaks.
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When you are ready to grill, preheat barbecue grill.
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Do not salt your steaks just before cooking.
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Salt brings moisture (water) to the surface of the steak and the water sits on the surface as you cook the steak.
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Thus, you are again basically steaming the steak.
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Salt after the steak is cooked to your liking, has rested the required time and just before serving.
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Place steaks onto hot grill of your barbecue and grill to the desired degree of doneness, about 3 to 4 minutes on each side for medium rare.
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Use a meat thermometer to test for doneness: Rare - 120 degrees F/Medium Rare 125 degrees F/Medium - 130 degrees F.
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When the steaks are crusty-charred and done to your liking, remove from the grill and let sit 15 minutes before serving (meat temperature will rise 5 to 10 degrees after it is removed from the oven).
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Serve your perfectly cooked steaks with the prepared Mango Salsa.
