Sliced Steak With Lemon and Thyme

Submitted by MarraMamba

"An easy flavorable way to turn cheap rump steak into a delicious dinner from Nigella. She says "instead of marinating the meat before cooking, you marinate it after; it really does keep it extraordinarily tender." You can also change the herbs"

 

• Ready In: 18mins
• Ingredients: 7
• Serves: 4

ingredients

• 660 g rump steak (1 x 2.5cm-thick)
• 5 sprigs thyme, to give 1 x 15ml tablespoon stripped leaves
• 2 bruised garlic cloves
• 80 ml extra virgin olive oil
• 1⁄2 lemon, juice of, zest and
• 1 teaspoon maldon salt or 1/2 teaspoon table salt
• good grinding fresh pepper

directions

1. Cut away the fat from around the edge of the steak while you heat a griddle or heavybased pan.
2. Brush the steak with oil to prevent it sticking to the griddle or pan, and cook for 3 minutes a side plus 1 minute each side turned again (this gives you pretty griddle marks) for desirably rare meat; the lemon in the post-hoc marinade “cooks” it a little more.
3. While the steak is cooking, place the thyme leaves, garlic, oil, lemon zest and juice, and salt and pepper in a wide, shallow dish.
4. Once the steak is cooked, place it in the dish of marinade for 4 minutes a side, before removing it to a board and slicing thinly on the diagonal.

Reviews

[BBCFan]

So Simple, but so delish. I never thought about using citrus with red meat before - it's a really great & unexpected combination.