Ingredients: |
Ingredients: Ingredients:
8 large mushrooms, sliced
1 1/2 tbsp. olive oil
1 tbsp. butter
1/4 cup sherry vinegar
salt to taste
1 whole garlic clove, peeled and bruised
1 tbsp. fresh chopped tarragon
For the rest:
1 tbsp. olive oil
2 (8-10 oz) New York strip steaks (grass-fed!)
salt and fresh ground black pepper to taste
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Directions: |
Directions:Making the Mushroom Salad:
Remove mushroom stems and slice thickly (1/4-1/3 of an inch), set aside. In a heavy bottom sauté pan, over medium heat, combine butter and olive oil. Heat butter mixture until it foams (will get a slight nutty color to top of foam) and add the mushrooms and a pinch of salt. Slowly caramelize the mushrooms by sautéing gently and spreading them evenly throughout pan. This will take about 20 minutes until they are nice and brown and crispy on the edges. Stir every few minutes or so.
While the mushrooms are cooking, pound one peeled clove of garlic and add it to a medium sized bowl. To pound it, place the clove under the flat side of a butcher’s knife or large knife, and using your fist, come down onto the flat side of the blade and flatten out the clove.
Add mushrooms to the bowl with the garlic. Turn off the burner and return the pan to the burner. Add the sherry to the pan. Stir sherry around and scrape the pan (deglaze) and pour sherry and bits of leftover caramelized mushrooms into the mushroom/garlic bowl.
Cooking the steaks:
Using the same pan, over medium heat, add the olive oil. Pat steaks dry and generously salt and pepper both sides of steaks. Add the steaks to the pan, searing 2.5 – 4 minutes per side depending on your stove. Chef John says 2.5 minutes for rare but mine took more like 4 minutes a side for rare/medium rare, don’t be afraid to cut into it and check it out, do NOT overcook.
Remove steaks from pan and add last tablespoon of butter to pan and turn off burner. Return pan to burner, add mushroom salad to pan with butter and deglaze once again, scraping up the bits of caramelized beef on the bottom of the pan.
Add the chopped fresh tarragon to the mushroom salad in the pan and then top your steaks with the mushroom salad, distributing evenly…enjoy! |
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