Sometimes we all deserve a lovely treat and we're gonna cook a beautiful steak.
This is for me and Jools- steak night, date night. I'm gonna make my
version of a red chimichurri sauce, full of
flavour, full of life, it takes your everyday
steak to the next level. So look I've got a pan here, nonstick, large,
on a medium heat. Let's start with the steak, beautiful sirloin
of beef. It's nicely marbled and we've got this lovely fat
here and what I would suggest to do pull this fat off, slice this up
into little chunks and what we can do is make crispy bits
and render it down to create the oil that goes in this pan.
So instead of putting butter or oil in this pan we're going to cook the steak
in the steak fat and then here get the knife
and I'll just skim off that tough piece of sinew, so we'll get rid of that. Then
I'm going to put in here a couple of cloves of garlic- I'll leave
the skin on. I'm going to do one thicker steak for two people. Season that
with lots of nice black pepper and then some sea salt. Pat that in and
then just roll it around the board to pick it all up. I'm gonna wash my
hands. In the pan you can see it's starting to
sizzle now. As that's happening I'm going to use two lovely chilies.
They're normally sort of medium hot, but by scraping away these
seeds you're cooling it down massively and
then I've got a bunch of spring onions here
I've just given them a trim and they go in as well.
Let's do the sauce part. I'm going to take the chilli,
half of the spring onions go in there and then the garlic,
I'll just remove that skin. Half a bunch of parsley, also I'm using
jarred peppers- half a jar in that goes. Now take those
flips of spring onion and crispy bits off and we'll put those
to one side. In the pan now, that is when our steak
goes in. When you're pan frying steak do it a
minute on each side until it's cooked to your liking. So
whether it's well done, medium, medium rare, whatever you like.
So I'll do a turn now, and what i love about this recipe it's got a really nice
flow. So as that's happening, over here put a
nice little lug of extra virgin olive oil in there as
well and then red wine vinegar, a pinch of salt and
pepper and that whizzed up is gonna be amazing.
The sauce is done, just keep turning the steak around.
I reckon that's gonna be about medium- medium rare. I'm gonna place that on top
of the spring onions to rest. So the sauce here, let me just
try a bit...
wow. You've got heat, but very gentle. I'm gonna take some of this sauce,
straight on there like that, three or four nice big spoons. The steak
here, carve it about half a centimetre thick.
Nice and blushing, that is exactly how my Jools likes it.
Lovely spring onions and then the crispy bits.
Now to go with that I've put in the oven a beautiful sweet potato. I'm just going
to smash it up with some parsley. Right, little taste before I serve it to
my lovely, lovely girl. Look we got the steak here
and that with the sauce and let's get a crispy bit, come on
crispy bit, come over here. It's going to be a thing of joy.
It is so tender, cooking the steak in its own fat makes it really, really delicious.
That sauce takes your everyday steak to the next level.
Right, let's serve it up to Jools.
Right, lovely girl, what do you reckon? "It's really nice,
very fresh" I like your dress, you look so pretty.
You like it? "Amazing, the steaks like butter"
Bud's don't ruin our romantic night!