Pub Steak Food

PUB-STYLE STEAK

Steps:

• In a large bowl, combine beer, Worcestershire sauce, and brown sugar.
• Add the steaks, turn over and cover with plastic wrap. Marinate for one hour on the counter OR place in the refrigerator for a few hours until ready to use. Turn steak occasionally.
• Remove steaks from the marinade, reserve the marinade. Pat steaks dry with paper towels, and season with salt and pepper.
• Heat one tablespoon of olive oil in a large skillet over medium heat until hot, about one minute.
• Place steaks in the hot skillet and cook for four to five minutes {depending on thickness}. Flip over and cook for an additional four to five minutes for medium-rare {125 degrees}.
• Remove steaks from skillet and place on a plate. Cover with aluminium foil and allow to rest.
• Add remaining tablespoon of olive oil to the skillet. Add the shallot and cook until softened, one to two minutes.
• Pour the reserved marinade into the skillet. Cook, stirring to removed cooked bits off the bottom of the skillet for six to eight minutes, until sauce is reduced by half.
• Add the butter, stirring occasionally until melted and sauce is shiny. Remove from heat.
• Spoon sauce over each steak and top with compound butter.

YE OLD PUB GRILLED STEAK (ENGLISH/UK)

Steps:

• Mix soy sauce and honey. It's basically a one to one ratio, but you can adjust for sweet verses salty preferences.
• Warm the mixture on the stove until the honey is incorporated into the soy sauce. Keep warm until ready to brush on steaks.
• Salt and pepper the steaks. I use coarse ground black pepper and kosher salt.
• Place steaks on a HOT grill.
• For great looking grill marks:.
• Place the meet on the grill at a 45 degree angle for 1/2 the cooking time for the first side. Turn 90 degrees for the remaining cooking time for the first side. Turn the steak over, again at a 45 degree angle for the first half, then turn 90 degrees and finish cooking. You should end up with diamond shaped grill marks.
• When meat is almost ready to come off the grill, brush with the soy sauce/honey mixture. Let it cook/sear on one side, then turn over and do the same to the other. Repeat as necessary to get a noticable glaze on the meat.
• Remove from heat and brush again (this is important).
• Let meat stand for 15 min before serving (also important).

PUB STYLE PEPPERED STILTON STEAKS WITH CHARRED ONIONS AND CHIPS

Steps:

• Crumble the Stilton cheese into a mixing bowl and add the softened butter and the toasted walnut pieces, mash together well. Cover & set to one side - in a cool place.
• Press the cracked peppercorns into both sides of the steaks, ensuring they adhere well. Cover and leave to come to room temperature for about 30 minutes.
• Take 1 ounce of butter from the 2 ounces of butter, and heat it up over a very high heat in a sturdy frying pan/skillet. Add the onion rings and stir well - allow them to char at the edges before turning down the heat and cooking over a slow heat for about 10 minutes more. Set to one side.
• 5 minutes before you want to start cooking your steaks, start to fry your chips/French fries - unless you are oven baking them, in which case you need them to be in the oven at least 45 minutes before you want to serve the steaks.
• Heat up the remaining 1 ounce of butter in a large sturdy frying pan/skillet and as soon as the butter starts to smoke but NOT burn, add you steaks.
• (Here is a rough cooking chart for you: For steaks about 1" thick, Rare is 3 minutes each side; Medium is 5 minutes each side and Well Done is 7 minutes each side - depending in the thickness of your steaks!).
• As soon as you have cooked your first side, turn the steak over and crumble half of the Stilton and walnut mixture over the top of each steak, continue to cook until the steaks are cooked to your liking.
• At the same time that you crumbled the Stilton mixture over the top, add the pre-fried onions and scatter them around in the frying pan to finish cooking them.
• Serve the Stilton and Pepper Steaks immediately with the charred onions and Chips/French Fries.

ENGLISH PUB-STYLE BEEF

Steps:

• In a large, lightly oiled skillet, stir-fry steak strips for about 2 minutes until no longer pink.
• Remove from pan.
• Combine remaining ingredients in skillet and cook over medium-high heat for 5 minutes, stirring occasionally.
• Stir in beef and heat through.
• Serve over mashed potatoes, cooked rice, noodles or warm tea biscuits.