'MasterChef' judge Aarón Sánchez shares his easy recipe for a 5-minute dinner

• Chef Aarón Sánchez returns as a judge on "MasterChef" for season 11.
• This season of the cooking competition focuses on bringing in "legends" like Emeril Lagasse and Roy Choi.
• In an interview with Insider, judge Sánchez shared a recipe for what he calls a five-minute dinner.

Celebrity chef Aarón Sánchez has appeared on Fox's "MasterChef" franchise as a judge since 2016.

The newest season of the show premiered on Tuesday and features a different guest judge each week, all of whom are dubbed culinary legends. Sánchez appears as a constant on the judge's panel alongside chef Gordon Ramsay and restaurateur Joe Bastianich.

Sánchez told Insider that the addition of the legends, who include famed chefs like Emeril Lagasse and Roy Choi, both adds another perspective to the permanent panel, but also "raises the stakes" for competitors.

"We want them to be inspired," Sanchez said. "To really understand the gravity of having their presence there. It's really - I thought - affected the quality of food, a lot of their maturation as cooks, and how they stepped up because of that extra legend presence there."

As an award-winning chef himself, Sánchez knows how to create elaborate meals, but also how to whip something up quickly at the end of a busy day.

"I'll give you an easy one," he told Insider. Sánchez's recipe is somewhat customizable and calls for skirt steak, any seasoning gent, oil or beef fat, garlic, serrano chiles or jalapeño peppers, parsley or cilantro, and fresh lime juice.

Home cooks can either leave their skirt steak whole or butterfly it (cut it nearly in half so you can open it like a book). One point Sánchez is careful to emphasize is that it's important to always season and oil your product, not your cooking apparatus.

"Pour some oil on the meat, season it with your favorite spice rub or whatever you want, and then sear it on the hot cast-iron skillet," he said.

Chef Sánchez once told Food Republic that skirt steak is one of his favorite cuts of meat because it cooks quickly. It's relatively thin, especially when butterflied, which means it should take just a few minutes to cook with this recipe.

When it's done to your liking, pull the steak off the heat and add a little additional oil or beef fat if you have it, the "MasterChef" judge said.

This is where you add your herbs, like toasted and chopped garlic, some hot peppers of your choosing, fresh lime juice, and the chef recommended going heavy on the leafy green herbs you chose. "Just put it all right on top of your steak," he said.