Sauteed Steak With Garlic, Chiles and Wine

Submitted by momaphet

"From Ming Tsai's visit to the Azores. Remove steaks from the fridge about 20mins before cooking"

 

• Ready In: 15mins
• Ingredients: 6
• Serves: 4

ingredients

• 24 ounces grass-fed steaks (or 4 6 oz high quality steaks)
• 12 garlic cloves
• 8 tablespoons butter
• 1 hot chili pepper, chopped with seeds in
• 1⁄4 cup semi sweet wine or 1/4 cup sherry wine
• kosher salt

directions

1. Smash the whole cloves of garlic on a cutting board to break them open using the back of a chefs knife. Take the smashed garlic cloves and press them into the steaks, 2-3 cloves per steak, using the back of your chefs knife. Season steaks with salt.
2. In a sauté pan, melt 4 Tbs butter, add the steaks and cook for 2 mins per side. this will make a rare steak cook a few minutes more per side for medium rare.
3. Remove from steaks from the pan and place on a platter to rest. To the same pan, add remaining butter and chili pepper. Cook together for 1 minute. Add the semi sweet wine and cook to burn off the alcohol about 1-2 minutes.
4. Pour the butter and garlic sauce over the steaks resting on the platter and serve.

Reviews

[Leggy Peggy]

Oh my, what an amazing recipe for good quality meat. I made 1/4 of a batch, using two steaks of 4 ounces each (going easier on the meat these days). Otherwise made as written, using port as the semi-sweet wine. Wonderful flavours. Thanks for posting.