Heya!
I’m sharing my quick and easy recipe for cooking steak and gravy. I adapted this from Gordon Ramsey’s version. Hope you enjoy it!
Ingredients
New York Steak (or your preferred cut)
Salt
Pepper
Paprika
Rosemary (or thyme whichever is available for you – fresh will always be the best!)
Butter
Neutral Oil (i don’t recommend using olive oil as we’ll be cooking in high heat)
Directions
Use a generous number of salt, pepper and paprika to season the steak, and gently press it into your meat along with your fingers. I use paprika because I like the smokey flavor it adds to the steak – you can omit this if you want.
Use a cast iron pan or a stone coated pan (this is what I have) in order to smoke steak. Get the pan nice and hot, you can add the oil. Wait for the oil to heat, it needs to just commence to smoke before adding the steak. Make sure that your steak is ROOM TEMPERATURE. Please do not cook stone cold steak. Add the steak and push it down inside center with the fingers to be sure the entire steak is touching the bottom from the pan.
It’s extremely important to only flip the steak once during cooking. Moving the steak around while cooking it’s going to only drain it of essential juices and lead into a less than desirable result. For rare, cook 2-3 minutes within the first side, then flip the steak. About 1 1/2 minutes in the second side, melt butter into your pan. Spoon the butter above the steak, ensuring to coat the entire steak. When the steak is only about finished, transform onto it’s back, fat side down. Cook for approximately 30 seconds to lessen and soften the strip of fat. Remove steak from pan, and baste again with butter in the pan. Leave to relax. I usually slice it after 5mins.
For your gravy – on the same pan with the left over oil/butter and juices, add a beef broth cube (i used only half since I’m just cooking for myself) and cook for a minute. Add cornstarch slurry (cornstarch diluted in water) and mix well. Its important to keep mixing and put on low heat to avoid making it too thick. Test the taste – if you want it saltier, add salt. Add pepper and pinch of sugar. Test the consistency – if its too thick for your liking, add a bit of water. cook for 30 more seconds – then serve!
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