Through
some good luck and a great friend with a well stocked freezer, slave
scored a beautiful steak for dinner. It has been several months so it
seemed like it was time for another steak dinner! You don't have to
be a fancy chef to do a steak correctly. Just follow some simple
rules and you mouth will be watering.
This
is a simple meal with a meat, some roasted broccoli and a fantastic
pan sauce that will have them beating your door down!
Ingredients:
10.6oz
Strip Steak (2 inches thick) (In the store this goes for $10 @ lbs.)
2
medium yellow onions
1
½ cups fresh mushrooms
Kosher
Salt
¾
C Vegetable broth
2
tsp corn starch
½
half & half
2
Tbs butter
4
Tbs oil divided
1
head of fresh broccoli
½
C vinegar
½
C Seagram's 7
Directions:
Rinse
the steak and dry with a paper towel. Rub with a layer of kosher
salt. Put it in a zipper bag in the refrigerator for at least 1 hour.
This will immensely improve the meat!
When
time is up, rinse it again and pat it dry with more paper towels. The
secret to a nice crusty-charred steak is a
dry outside. Meat can be a bit slimy right out of the package and
that steams the meat, not very tasty.
Allow
the meat to sit at room temperature for 1
- 1½ hours. Don't
skip this!
While
that is warming do your cutting. Slice up the onions, wash and slice
the mushrooms. Cut the broccoli into florets and let soak in a
vinegar water bath for 5 minutes.
Prepare
two sheet pans. Line them with foil and place a cooling rack in one.
Spray both well. Place the one with a rack into the heating oven to
also get warm.
Over
a medium low heat, warm 2 Tbs oil & 2 Tbs of butter in a large
skillet.
Add
the sliced onions and mushrooms. If it sizzles, it is too hot. Stir
in 2 tsp of white sugar.. Cover and let cook for about 10 minutes.
By
now the oven should be heated.
Rinse
the broccoli and toss with 1 Tbs of oil. Spread on the baking sheet
and sprinkle with kosher salt. Place in oven.
Raise
the heat on the onions to medium and stir well as they are turning a
light brown.
Now
to the other skillet: heat on high 2 Tbs oil. When HOT sear the steak
until a dark crust starts to form. About 3 minutes per side.
Using
tongs, place the steak onto the heated rack in the oven.
Back
to the onion mixture, now a nice brown. Dissolve the cornstarch into
the vegetable broth. Be sure to stir well. Set aside while you add
the scotch. Stir it well. That will quickly reduce as the alcohol
cooks off. Now stir in the cornstarch mixture. Continue to stir as
this thickens. Add the half & half to make creamy.
By
now the 20 minutes should be up on the oven. Remove the broccoli and
dish up. Remove the steak: at this point an instant read thermometer
should read 140 degrees, the heat will continue to rise, if you wrap
it in foil. Let that sit for 15 minutes! Dish up the pan sauce.
Slave
served the steak still wrapped in foil. This allows the meat to rest
and the juices to flow back into the steak. Always let your meat
rest.
Remember
this great recording?
This
pan sauce
turns out so very good that slave has been known to cry real tears
when he could not share it with others. Hope you enjoy.
Serving
my Master Indy
socialslave
To
satisfy and restore.
To
nourish, support and maintain.
To
gratify, spoil, comfort and please,
to
nurture, assist, and sustain
…..I
cook!
Please
buy slave's cookbook:
The
Little Black Book of Indiscreet Recipes by Dan White
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00F315Y4I/ref=cm_sw_r_tw_dp_vAT4sb0934RTM
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