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Welsh black bavette steak with café de paris butter
- Prep time:
- 20 mins, plus at least 1 hr freezing
- Cook time:
- 5 mins
- Serves:
- 4
A luxurious savoury butter adds a touch of French sophistication to delicious skirt steak in Paul Bloxham's meaty supper
Ingredients
- 2 tbsp grapeseed oil
- 1 tbsp Butter
- 1kg skirt beef steaks, (cut from the belly), cut into 4 portions
- 1 pinch sea salt and freshly ground freshly ground white pepper
For the Café de Paris butter
- 170g unsalted Butter
- 2 tsp tomato ketchup
- 1 tsp Dijon Mustard
- tsp baby capers, rinsed
- 0.5 banana Shallots, coarsely chopped
- 2 tsp chopped Parsley
- 2 tsp chopped Chives
- 0.5 tsp chopped Dill
- 1 pinch dried marjoram
- 1 pinch dried Rosemary
- 0.5 clove Garlic, crushed
- 1 tinned anchovies
- 1 tsp Brandy
- 1 tsp Madeira
- 0.5 tsp Worcestershire sauce
- 0.5 tsp sweet Paprika
- 1 pinch mild curry powder
- 0.5 tsp Black peppercorns, crushed
- 1 tsp grated lemon zest
- 1 tsp grated orange zest
- 1 tbsp lemon juice
- 1 pinch sea salt
Method
1. For the Café de Paris butter, beat the butter in a mixing bowl with a wooden spoon until it is soft, white and fluffy and has doubled in size.2. Place the remaining Café de Paris butter ingredients in a food processor and process until well-combined and pureed.
3. Fold the puree into the softened butter. Mould a log shape out of the butter, wrap in baking parchment and freeze until required. It will take around an hour to solidify.
4. Heat the grapeseed oil and butter in a large frying pan until hot. Add the beef skirt and fry for 1 minute on each side.
5. Season the steak with salt and white pepper. Cut the butter into 1cm slices and place on top of the steaks.
6. Grill the butter-topped steak under a preheated grill so that the butter glazes, or use a blowtorch for the same effect. Serve at once with chips made from Maris Piper potatoes and purple-sprouting broccoli or kale.










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