Fillet Steak With Red Currant Sauce
photo by The Flying Chef
- Ready In:
- 50mins
- Ingredients:
- 12
- Serves:
-
4
ingredients
- olive oil
- 800 g beef, eye fillet (kept as a whole not cut into individual steaks)
-
Red Currant Sauce
- 30 g butter
- 1 onion, finely chopped
- 3 garlic cloves, crushed
- 200 g sliced mushrooms
- 118.29 ml dry red wine
- 9.85 ml green peppercorns
- 2.46 ml beef stock powder (I use quite a dense stock so adjust for what you use and personal taste)
- 36.97 ml red currant jelly
- 22.18 ml port wine
- 25 g butter, extra
directions
- Tie beef several times, at different intervals with kitchen string so it maintains shape during cooking.
- Heat oil in a pan add beef, cook over medium high heat until well browned all over.
- Remove and transfer to oven dish, bake uncovered in moderately hot oven (190-200°C approx) for 20 minutes for medium rare or until desired doneness.
- Red Currant Sauce.
- Heat butter in pan add onion and garlic, cook a couple of minutes, add mushrooms and cook until onions and mushrooms are soft.
- Add peppercorns and wine, simmer uncovered, 2-3 minutes.
- Add jelly, stock powder and port stir until jelly has dissolved, simmer for a further 4 Min's or until mixture has thickened slightly.
- Whisk in extra butter over a low heat.
- I serve mine with parsnip mash in pastry shells with salad and berry dressing.
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