Filet Mignon With Mushroom-Wine Sauce - Light Version Weight Wat

Submitted by Mimi Bobeck

"This is a diet recipe. I know it's not as low in calories like a salad - but its is High on Flavour and low calorie than other versions of this classic recipe."

 

• Ready In: 50mins
• Ingredients: 11
• Serves: 4

ingredients

• 1 tablespoon butter or 1 tablespoon margarine, divided
• 1⁄3 cup finely chopped shallot
• 1⁄2 cup fresh shiitake mushroom, stems removed
• 1 1⁄2 cups cabernet sauvignon wine or 1 1/2 cups dry red wine, divided
• 1 (10 1/2 ounce) can beef consomme, undiluted and divided
• cracked black pepper
• 4 (4 ounce) filet mignon steaks (about 1 inch thick)
• 1 tablespoon low sodium soy sauce
• 2 teaspoons cornstarch
• 1 teaspoon dried thyme
• fresh thyme sprig (optional)

directions

1. Melt 1 1/2 tsp butter in a nonstick skillet over medium heat.
2. Add shallots and mushrooms; sauté for 4 minutes.
3. Add 1 cup wine and 3/4 cup consommé; cook for 5 minutes, stirring frequently.
4. Remove the mushrooms with a slotted spoon, place in a bowl.
5. Increase heat to high; cook wine mixture until reduced to 1/2 cup (about 5 minutes).
6. Add to mushrooms in bowl; set aside.
7. Wipe pan with paper towel.
8. Sprinkle pepper over steaks.
9. Melt 1 1/2 tsp butter in pan over medium heat.
10. Add steaks; cook 3 minutes on each side.
11. Reduce heat to medium-low; cook 1 1/2 minutes on each side or until desired degree of doneness.
12. Place on a platter; keep warm.
13. Combine soy sauce and cornstarch.
14. Add 1/2 cup wine and remaining consommé to skillet; scrape skillet to loosen browned bits.
15. Bring to a boil; cook 1 minute.
16. Add mushroom mixture, cornstarch mixture, and dried thyme, bring to a boil, and cook 1 minute, stirring constantly.
17. Serve sauce with steaks.
18. Garnish with thyme sprigs, if desired.

Reviews

[Maggie]

LOVE! I bought filet mignon at our farmers market to make for my husband, and this recipe looked perfect for my first time with filet mignon. I realized I only had canned straw mushrooms after i had made up my mind, I was nervous, but the meal was delicious. Also I used trader joe's beef soup base instead of consomme. I served with Green Beans To Impress Recipe #37409. My husband gave this 6 stars out of five! Sauce had a very decadent flavor. Thanks Mimi!

 

[Andi Longmeadow Farm]

Yep. This is dang good. Dang good! Nice succulent way to cook this piece of meat ~ the mushrooms with wine sauce sends this way over the moon. Didn't change anything, used a cast iron to make the meat caramelized, added the mushroom, made the sauce. Heaven!

 

[Amayahs Mom]

This is the best sauce for beef! I didn't change a thing to the recipe and it was wonderful. I did find that if you have larger steaks, you will need to cook them for longer than the recipe states to get them to a nice rare, medium-rar. I had left over sauce and put it in a beef stew with egg noodles the next day. Thanks for the recipe. I'll be making this again soon!

 

[wyndechyme]

This was quite good. Definitely had lots of flavor. I used sliced button mushrooms instead and it tasted great!

 

[sanlyn.bird]

Easy, simple, and delicious. I use any red wine and it still tastes wonderful all the time.