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Pan-Seared Steaks With Shallot Sauce

Midweek suggestions are thick-cut fries, sauteed mushrooms and peppermint-stick ice cream. For a touch of glamour, begin with Champagne and caviar, offer roasted potatoes and spinach souffle with the steak, and have chocolate truffles afterward.

Type: Meat
Courses: Main Course
Serves: 2 people

Recipe Ingredients

2   Top loin (New York strip) steaks, 3/4" thk
  Salt - to taste
  Freshly-ground black pepper - to taste
1/2 cup 118mlCanned beef broth
3 tablespoons 45mlSherry wine vinegar
1   Shallot - finely chopped
1 1/2 tablespoons 22mlChilled butter
1/4 teaspoon 1.3mlDried tarragon

Recipe Instructions

Sprinkle steaks with salt and pepper. Heat medium skillet over medium-high heat. Add steaks and cook about 4 minutes per side for rare; transfer to plates.

Add remaining ingredients to skillet. Boil until sauce thickens, scraping up any browned bits, about 3 minutes. Spoon sauce over steaks.

This recipe yields 2 servings; can be doubled.

Source:
Bon Appetit, December 1999

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