Mushroom Stuffed Steak Au Poivre Food

STUFFED MUSHROOMS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 375 degrees F. In a large skillet, heat oil over medium-high. Cook sausage, breaking it up with a fork, until no longer pink, about 5 minutes. Add garlic, shallot, and chopped mushrooms stems; season with salt and pepper. Reduce heat to medium, and cook until vegetables are tender, stirring occasionally, 4 to 6 minutes. Transfer to a bowl, stir in parsley and oregano, and let cool.
• Add egg, breadcrumbs, and cheese to cooled sausage mixture, and stir to combine. Place mushroom caps on a rimmed baking sheet. Season cavities with salt and pepper, then stuff with sausage mixture, dividing evenly and packing tightly. Drizzle lightly with oil.
• Bake until mushrooms are tender and tops are browned, 25 to 30 minutes. Serve immediately garnished with additional oregano leaves, if desired.

PORTOBELLO 'STEAK' AU POIVRE

Steps:

• Brush the mushrooms all over with olive oil. Sprinkle the pepper evenly over the gill sides (about 1/2 teaspoon per mushroom). Heat a large cast-iron skillet over medium-high, then add the mushrooms gill side up and sear until the underside is browned and the gill side looks wet, 3 to 6 minutes. Flip and cook until golden and the pepper is fragrant, 2 to 4 minutes.
• Reduce heat to medium-low. Flip the mushrooms so they're gill side up, then add the butter and garlic, and season with salt. While stirring the garlic to keep it from scorching, tilt the skillet to spoon up the melting butter and baste the mushrooms until tender, 2 to 5 minutes. Transfer the mushrooms to a plate, leaving the butter in the skillet.
• Add the shallot and stir until softened, 2 to 4 minutes, adding a little more butter if the pan is dry. Stand back, and carefully add the Cognac. (It might flame.) Stir until the Cognac has nearly evaporated. Add the heavy cream and mustard, season with salt, and stir to combine. Return the mushrooms to the pan gill side down, and cook until the cream is thickened and the color of a latte, 2 to 4 minutes. Eat the mushrooms with a drizzle of the sauce.

STUFFED MUSHROOMS

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F.
• Stir the bread crumbs, Pecorino Romano, garlic, parsley, mint, salt and pepper, to taste, and 2 tablespoons olive oil in a medium bowl to blend.
• Drizzle a heavy large baking sheet with about 1 tablespoon olive oil, to coat. Spoon the filling into the mushroom cavities and arrange on the baking sheet, cavity side up. Drizzle remaining oil over the filling in each mushroom. Bake until the mushrooms are tender and the filling is heated through and golden on top, about 25 minutes. Serve.

STEAK AU POIVRE AND RATATOUILLE HASH

Steps:

• For the steak: Heat the canola oil in a large saute pan over high heat until it begins to shimmer. Sprinkle the steak on both sides with salt and crust one side of the steak with the pepper. Put the steak in the pan, pepper-side down, and cook until golden brown, 3 to 4 minutes. Flip and continue cooking to medium-rare doneness, 4 to 5 minutes longer. Remove to a plate and let rest 10 minutes.
• For the vinaigrette: In a mixing bowl, combine the red wine vinegar and Dijon mustard and season with salt and pepper. Whisk lightly, then slowly stream in the extra-virgin olive oil. Fold in the basil leaves.
• For the hash: Heat the canola oil in the pan, add the peppers and zucchini and cook, stirring a few times, about 2 minutes. Add the garlic and cook until the vegetables are soft, about 5 minutes. Next, add in the tomatoes and cook for 1 minute. Add the potatoes, season with salt and pepper and cook until lightly golden brown on all sides. Season with salt and pepper and transfer to a platter. Drizzle with some vinaigrette.
• To serve: Slice the steak and move to a serving platter. Drizzle with some vinaigrette. Serve alongside the hash.

STUFFING-STUFFED MUSHROOMS

Steps:

• Mix 1 cup leftover stuffing with 1/4 cup grated parmesan, 2 tablespoons each olive oil and chopped parsley and 1 minced garlic clove. Stuff into 24 button mushroom caps; top with more parmesan and olive oil. Bake 20 to 25 minutes at 375 degrees.

STEAK AU POIVRE AND BROILED STUFFED TOMATOES

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F.
• Heavy bottomed skillet over medium high to high heat.
• Arrange tomatoes on a broiler pan. Drizzle tomatoes with oil and season with salt and pepper. Combine bread crumbs, cheese, red pepper flakes, garlic, arugula and 1 tablespoon oil in food processor and pulse grind to form stuffing. Stuff tomatoes to the rims with arugula mixture and place in the center of the oven. Bake 10 to 12 minutes. Let tomatoes stand 5 minutes before serving.
• Let steaks sit 10 minutes once removed from the refrigerator. Coat steaks liberally on both sides with coarse black pepper. To a very hot pan, drizzle oil to thinly coat the cooking surface. It will smoke. Add steaks immediately. Sear and seal the steaks, cooking them 4 minutes on each side. for medium rare doneness. Reduce heat a bit and cook 5 minutes longer for medium to medium well doneness. Remove steaks and let stand 5 minutes. Add brandy to the skillet and warm, then ignite. Add butter to the skillet, then spoon pan juices over steaks. Serve stuffed tomatoes along side steaks.

STEAK AU POIVRE WITH A MUSHROOM, GREEN PEPPERCORN, AND DIJON SAUCE AND POMMES FRITES WITH A GARLIC AIOLI DIPPING SAUCE AND A FRESH VEGETABLE RELISH

Steps:

• Use a meat mallet to slightly reduce the thickness of each steak. Spread both sides of each steak with a thin coating of Dijon mustard. Sprinkle with salt and cover both sides with coarsely ground black pepper. Heat olive oil in a large, heavy skillet over medium-high heat and cook the steaks 3 to 4 minutes on each side. The steaks should be rare at this point. Set them aside and lightly cover them so they stay warm. Do not wash out the pan.
• Mushroom, Green Peppercorn and Dijon sauce: Heat the butter in a medium sized saute pan over medium-high heat and saute the garlic and shallots for approximately 1 minute. Add the mushrooms, raise the heat to high, and cook for an additional 5 minutes. Add beef stock, cream, and mustard, and then reduce the sauce by 1/2. Once the sauce is made, reheat the skillet, in which the steaks were cooked, to medium-high heat. Add the steaks and cook for another 2 minutes on each side for a medium-rare steak. Transfer them to dinner plates, which have been coated with the mushroom Dijon sauce. Once you plate the steaks, spoon more of the sauce on top of each steak. Serve with Pommes Frites, Aioli, and Vegetable Relish.
• Thoroughly clean the outer surface of the russets and peel the skin using a vegetable peeler. Slice the potatoes lengthwise into thick strips. Pour enough vegetable oil in a pot to cover the potato slices. Once the oil is hot, carefully put the potato strips into the pot and fry them until they are brown and crispy. Remove the potatoes from the pot and drain the excess oil onto paper towels. Salt and pepper, to taste, while the potatoes are still hot. Serve with a fresh Garlic Aioli Dipping Sauce.
• Finely mince 1 or 2 cloves of garlic in a food processor. Add in the egg yolks and then squeeze the juice from a couple of lemons into the processor bowl. Blend the ingredients together until they fully integrate. While the mixture processes, slowly drizzle in olive oil until the sauce emulsifies.
• Dice all of the ingredients and combine them in a medium sized bowl. Stir the diced vegetables together, until they are fully integrated.

ANDIE'S STUFFED MUSHROOMS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C).
• Place ground beef in a large, deep skillet. Cook over medium high heat until evenly brown. Drain, crumble and set aside.
• In a medium saucepan over medium heat, melt the margarine and stir in the mushroom stems, green bell peppers, garlic, parsley and basil.
• In a large bowl, mix the ground beef, mushroom stem mixture, dry bread crumbs, soft bread crumbs and Cheddar cheese.
• Place the mushroom caps, upside down, on a large baking pan. Generously stuff each cap with the mixture.
• Bake in the preheated oven 15 to 20 minutes, or until the filling is golden brown.

STEAK AU POIVRE WITH WILD MUSHROOM AND BOURBON SAUCE

Steps:

• Rub the steaks with the pepper.
• (The chef recommends coarsely ground versus cracked pepper so that it is less hot and spicy but I've used cracked pepper-in fact more than the recipe calls for-it's your call).
• Put the steaks in a shallow dish and pour 1/4 cup of the bourbon on them.
• Cover with plastic and let sit at room temp for 1-2 hours.
• Put the mushrooms in a small bowl, pour the boiling water over them and let them sit for 20 minutes.
• Preheat the oven to 225 degrees.
• Remove the mushrooms but save the liquid.
• Rinse the mushrooms well, cut off any tough bits and discard.
• Finely chop the mushrooms.
• Strain the liquid through a sieve lined with cheesecloth and save 1/2 cup of it.
• In a large heavy skillet, heat the oil and butter over high heat until just beginning to glisten.
• Add steaks and cook until browned, about 2 minutes a side.
• Remove from heat and add the other 1/4 cup of bourbon.
• Stand back, ignite with a long match, then shake the pan until the flames die down.
• Transfer the filets to a heatproof platter and cook in the oven until done, about 15 min.
• for medium.
• Add the garlic and shallots to pan and cook over moderate heat, covered, until soft (about 6-8 min.).
• Increase the heat to high, add the 1/2 cup of reserved liquid.
• Cook, stirring constantly, until syrupy, about 2 min.
• Sir in the cream and cook until slightly reduced, 2-3 min.
• Stir in the reserved mushrooms, reduce heat to low, and cook 2 more min.
• Season with salt to taste.
• Transfer steaks to warmed plates.
• Stir any juices from the meat into the sauce and spoon over the steaks.
• Serve immediately.