Braised Skirt Steak With Mushroomherb Stuffing Food

BRAISED SKIRT STEAK WITH MUSHROOM/HERB STUFFING

Steps:

• STUFFING: Heat the olive oil in a medium sauté pan over high heat.
• Add the onion, celery, garlic and mushrooms.
• Sauté vegetables until soft and liquid from the mushrooms has evaporated, about 6 minutes.
• Add the mixed herbs, arugula, pine nuts and brioche cubes.
• Cook for an additional 3 minutes.
• Add the white wine and continue to cook until the liquid has evaporated.
• Remove from heat and cool completely.
• Fold in the egg.
• BRAISE: Preheat oven to 375 degrees F.
• Lay out the skirt steak, vertically, and season with salt and pepper.
• Add the cooled stuffing to the bottom third of the steak and roll up, width-wise.
• Secure with butcher’s twine.
• Heat a medium sauté pan over high heat and add the olive oil.
• Brown the stuffed skirt steak on all sides.
• Transfer steak to an 8 x 8-inch roasting pan.
• Add the fennel, carrot, thyme, bay leaf, black peppercorns and garlic to the sauté pan and cook for 2 minutes.
• Deglaze with the red wine and beef broth.
• Scrape the brown bits off the bottom of the pan with a wooden spoon and transfer entire contents of the pan to the roasting pan.
• Cover with aluminum foil and place in preheated oven.
• Braise until meat is tender, about 1½ hours.
• Remove skirt steak from roasting pan and place on cutting board.
• Cover with aluminum foil and let rest for 10 minutes.
• SAUCE: Strain the pan juices from the roasting pan into a small saucepan.
• Discard the solids.
• Add the beef broth and red wine to the saucepan.
• Bring to a boil.
• Whisk in the grainy mustard and butter.
• Slice the skirt steak into ½-inch slices.
• Spoon the sauce over the steak and serve immediately.

OLIVE-STUFFED SKIRT STEAKS WITH BLACK BEAN SAUCE

Steps:

• Mix the garlic paste in a bowl with the ground annato seeds. Blend in 2 tablespoons of the olive oil until smooth paste is formed. Add the 1/2 teaspoon of salt. Spread the paste evenly over the skirt steaks, making sure that all sides are painted. Marinate the steaks and refrigerate for at least 8 hours.
• Place the remaining tablespoon of olive oil in a very large, heavy saucepan or heavy dutch oven. Over medium high heat, add the minced onion and the chopped green pepper. Saute for about 5 minutes, stirring, or until the onions and peppers are just starting to brown. Turn heat to low. Add the ground cumin and stir well. Saute for 1 minute. Turn heat to high and add the black turtle beans. Stir well. Add 3 cups of water and bring to the boil as quickly as possible. Reduce heat to a very slow simmer and cook, partially covered, until the black beans are just tender. This will take no more than an hour and 15 minutes. Strain the beans, reserving both the beans and the bean stock. Season the bean stock with salt and pepper; you should have about 1 cup.
• When ready to serve, prepare a hot charcoal fire. Place the skirt steaks on the fire and cook, turning once, until crusty on the outside, rare on the inside (about 6 minutes). Alternatively, you could sear the steaks in a heavy, cast-iron skillet that has been heated for 10 minutes over very high heat. When steaks are done, using a very sharp knife, cut each steak horizontally, leaving the steaks attached along one long side (this is like butterflying them).
• Stuff the steaks: Lay out 2 tablespoons of finely chopped parsley along one flap of each steak. Pit and halve the olives and lay out 4 olives over the parsley on each steak. Sprinkle with the dried oregano. Finally, divide the shredded lettuce among the four steaks, placing the shreds over the olives and parsley. Cover the stuffing with the upper flap of skirt steak.
• With a cheese cutter, cut the Monterey Jack into 24 thin strips, each one about 1 1/2" by 4". Overlap 6 slices of the cheese over each stuffed skirt steak, placing the long side of the cheese perpendicular to the long side of the steak. Place each steak on an oven-proof dinner plate and place the plates under a broiler for about 30 seconds, or until the cheese has melted.
• Finish the sauce: In a clean saucepan, melt the butter over medium-high heat. Add the flour and cook for 2 minutes, stirring, until the roux has begun to darken. Add 1 cup of the reserved bean stock, stirring well to blend. Bring to the boil and add 2 tablespoons of the reserved black beans (serve the rest of the beans as a side dish, or reserve for another use). Season well with salt and pepper.
• Divide the sauce among the four dinner plates; each plate should have sauce on two sides of the steak. Garnish the melted cheese and the sauce with a little finely chopped parsley.

SKIRT STEAK WITH MUSHROOM HASH

Steps:

• Preheat the broiler. Put the potatoes in a medium saucepan and cover with water by 1 inch; season with salt. Bring to a boil and cook until the potatoes just start softening, about 5 minutes; drain and set aside. Season the steak with salt and pepper and set aside.
• Meanwhile, heat 1 tablespoon olive oil in a large ovenproof skillet over medium-high heat. Add half of the shallot and cook, stirring, until slightly softened, about 2 minutes. Add the spinach and season with ½ teaspoon salt and a few of grinds of pepper. Cook, stirring, until the spinach is wilted and the liquid evaporates, about 3 minutes. Remove to a bowl; set aside.
• Wipe out the skillet; add 1 tablespoon olive oil and heat over medium-high heat. Add the steak and cook until browned, about 4 minutes per side. Transfer to a plate and let rest.
• Pour out any drippings from the skillet. Melt the butter in the skillet. Add the mushrooms and cook, stirring occasionally, until wilted, about 3 minutes. Stir in the remaining shallot, the potatoes, wine, ½ teaspoon salt and a few grinds of pepper. Drizzle with the remaining 1 tablespoon olive oil. Broil until browned, 8 minutes.
• Stir the spinach into the potato mixture. Slice the steak against the grain and serve with the vegetables.

GRILLED OR FRIED SKIRT STEAK

Steps:

• In a small bowl, stir together the lemon juice and mustard. Trim away most of the fat from the steaks, and rub with the mustard marinade. Place into a resealable bag, and marinate in the refrigerator for at least 1 hour, and up to 24 hours.
• Preheat a grill or large skillet for medium-high heat.
• Grill or fry steaks for about 5 minutes per side, or to your desired degree of doneness. Remove from the heat, and let the meat rest for 5 to 10 minutes to let the juices settle. Cut each steak along the grain into 3 or 4 pieces. Serve with blue cheese dressing.

MUSHROOM HERB STUFFING

Steps:

• Clean and slice the mushrooms with an egg slicer. Sauté in 1 tablespoons of butter with the chopped onions and celery.
• Combine the bread cubes, seasonings, sautéed mushrooms, onions, and celery.
• And the remaining butter.
• Add the chicken broth and mix well.
• Mixes 8 cups of stuffing or enough to stuff.
• A 10-12 lb. Turkey.

BRAISED SKIRT STEAK WITH ARTICHOKE

Steps:

• Preheat an oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C).
• Dissolve beef boullion cube in boiling water. Heat the olive oil in an oven-safe Dutch oven over high heat. Season the skirt steak on both sides with salt, and cook in the hot oil until browned on both sides, about 2 minutes per side.
• Pour the beef bouillon and 1/4 cup artichoke juice into the Dutch oven, then stir in the artichokes, red peppers, jalapeno peppers, carrots, capers, and horseradish. Bring to a boil, then cover, and place into the preheated oven. Bake until the meat has turned from red to light pink in the center, about 30 minutes.
• Remove the skirt steak from the Dutch oven, cover with foil, and keep warm. Return the Dutch oven to the stove, and simmer, uncovered, over medium-high heat until the sauce has reduced to your desired consistency, about 10 minutes. Slice the skirt steak thinly, and serve with the reduced sauce.

PEPPERED SKIRT STEAK, BRANDY MUSHROOM SAUCE OVER BAGUETTES

Steps:

• Steak -- Rub a little olive oil on the steak and season well on both sides with the peppercorns and salt. Now, I prefer using my indoor grill pan, to get some nice grill marks, but you could use an outdoor grill, or even a large saute pan, but you may have to cut the steaks in 2 pieces to get them to fit in a pan. You can even broil it, but I don't like the outcome as well. Cook to medium rare, for me (but cook it how you like it), and remember it will continue to cook after removing from the heat. About 5-7 minutes on the first side not quite as long on the second side (it depends on the thickness of your steak). Remove and cover with foil to let it rest.
• Sauce -- In a small pot, melt the butter and saute the shallot and mushrooms until lightly tender. Add in the brandy (you can ignite it if you want or you do not have to). If you ignite it, please remember to remove from the heat before doing so. If you ignite it, please let it burn off a few seconds, and then add in the broth and simmer about 4 minutes until most of the liquid is absorbed. This is the perfect time as the steak is resting.
• Bread -- Just brush or drizzle olive oil over the slices of bread and lightly toast on each side.
• Finish the Sauce -- After most of the liquid has reduced, add in the cream and bring to medium heat. Don't boil! Just heat up the cream.
• Steak -- Slice AGAINST the grain to ensure a tender steak.
• Serve -- Just plate a couple of toasted baguettes on each plate and top with sliced steak. Top that with the creamy mushroom brandy sauce and chopped scallions as a garnish. ENJOY!

BRAISED FLANK STEAK

Steps:

• Sprinkle both sides of the steak with the oregano, salt and pepper.
• Heat a large nonstick skillet over medium high.
• When the pan is very hot, add the steak.
• Cook the steak for 4 minutes, or until it lifts easily off the pan and is browned on the underside.
• Turn the steak and cook another 4 minutes.
• Add the vermouth and tomatoes to the pan, cover, reduce heat to medium, and simmer 25 minutes.
• Turn heat up to medium high and cook another 5 minutes, or until the liquid in the pan has evaporated.
• Transfer the meat to a carving board, and let sit 5 minutes before cutting on the diagonal into very thin strips.
• Serve the steak strips fanned out on the plate, and spoon some of the tomato from the pan over the meat.

BRAISED STEAK WITH BUTTERY MUSHROOMS

Steps:

• Heat a couple of tablespoons of olive oil in a pan, add beef and cook, turning until browned all over. Remove beef from pan and set aside, wipe pan clean add about a tablespoon more of oil, add onions and garlic and cooked until onions are soft.
• Add herbs, red wine, water and stock, stir, return beef to pan cook covered, turning beef once for two hours or until beef is tender.
• Discard herbs, strain liquid into sauce pan, keep onions to one side. Turn heat up to medium high, add extra wine, mix a little water to cornflour and pour into sauce. Stir until sauce boils and thickens.
• Buttery Mushrooms.
• I cut the mushrooms in different ways for presentation at the end. For example Button mushrooms-halved, Swiss brown quartered, Shitake-sliced, oyster-halved, chanterelles-chopped. So adjust for what you can buy at the time.
• Heat butter in a pan, add mushrooms, stir until tender, stir in herbs.
• To serve slice beef and place on serving platter with mushrooms and reserved onions.
• I made this just for 2 and I bought a half a kilo of beef we are quite piggy with steak. This recipe will serve 4-5 depending on appetites. I also bought beef fillet as it is not expensive where I live, so the photo does look different, as it is thinner round than rolled topside.