plain jane cooking - recipes for the novice:

steak with pepper sauce

ingredients

steak olive oil butter shallots or a small onion peppercorns - green peppercorns - green peppercorns - black stock - beef cream

2 25 25 2 ½ ½ ½ 200 200

pc ml gm pc tsp whole tsp chopped tsp cracked ml ml

production

1. Heat pan over a medium heat, add oil and allow to heat up
2. Season steak with salt and pepper just before it goes into pan
3. Place into pan and cook to your favourite amount, rare, medium etc
4. Remove from pan and allow to rest
5. Melt the butter in a saucepan and add the finely chopped shallots with the all the peppercorns cook gently until the shallots are soft and translucent
6. Add the stock, bring to a boil and simmer until reduced by ¾'s
7. Add the cream and reduce by half
8. Taste, season and thicken if required with a little beurre manié, or slurry of flour or cornflour

chef notes:

For stock recipe <click here>

One of the ½ tsp of green peppercorns can be replaced with
red peppercorns if preferred for a 3 peppercorn sauce.

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