Jamie Oliver’s 30-minute meals tickled mine and the boyfriends taste buds recently and send us drooling to Asda to recreate his steak sarnie, crispy new potato’s and cheesy mushrooms recipe for dinner (we skipped on the beetroot salad that accompanied). It just looked too good to be true and made me wish that smellivision had been invented.
Now I do find that with celeb recipes on TV, the end product always looks much better in their kitchen even though you try to prepare it in an identical fashion. I usually find this with how I expect the taste to be also, however this steak sarnie really is immense, delicious, splendid-ness on a plate.
So no more words needed here is the recipe (in time order) which serves 4 people or second time round, perhaps just yourself…
INGREDIENTS
STEAK SARNIE
- 2 x 300g (10½oz) best-quality rump steaks
- 2 sprigs of fresh thyme
- 1 ciabatta loaf
- A small handful of jarred peppers
- A couple of sprigs of fresh flat-leaf parsley
- Horseradish sauce, to serve
- A large handful of prewashed rocket, to serve
MUSHROOMS
- 4 large flat Portobello mushrooms (approx 250g/ 9oz in total)
- 2 cloves of garlic
- ½ fresh red chilli
- 2 sprigs of fresh flat-leaf parsley
- ½ lemon
- 70g (2½oz) mature Cheddar cheese
POTATOES
- 500g (1lb 2oz) baby new potatoes
- 6 cloves of garlic
- A few sprigs of fresh rosemary
- ½ lemon
SEASONINGS
- Olive oil
- Extra virgin olive oil
- Sea salt and black pepper
BEETROOT SALAD
- 1 x 250g pack of cooked vac-packed beetroots
- Balsamic vinegar
- ½ lemon
- A bunch of fresh flat-leaf parsley
- 50g feta cheese
METHOD
TO START: Get all your ingredients and equipment ready. Put a griddle pan on a medium heat and a large frying pan on a high heat. Turn the grill to full whack. Fill and boil the kettle. Put the coarse grater attachment into the food processor.
POTATOES: Cut any large new potatoes in half, then add all of them to the large empty frying pan with a good pinch of salt. Quickly squash 6 unpeeled cloves of garlic with the heel of your hand, then add to the frying pan. Pour in enough boiling water to cover, then cook for 12 to 15 minutes, or until cooked through.
MUSHROOMS: Lay the mushrooms, stalk side up, on a chopping board. Trim the stalks and place the mushrooms stalk side up in a small earthenware dish that they fit into fairly snugly.
Crush ½ an unpeeled clove of garlic over each mushroom. Finely chop ½ a red chilli and a couple of parsley sprigs, and divide between the mushrooms. Grate over the zest of ½ a lemon, drizzle well with olive oil and season. Cut the Cheddar into four chunks and pop one on each mushroom.
BEETROOT SALAD: Grate the beetroot in the food processor. Remove the bowl from the processor, take out the grater attachment and pour in a couple of lugs of balsamic vinegar and a few lugs of extra virgin olive oil.
Squeeze in the juice of ½ a lemon. Finely chop a bunch of parsley and add most of it. Stir to dress, then tip into a nice serving bowl. Scatter over the rest of the parsley. Crumble over the feta. Drizzle with extra virgin olive oil and take to the table.
MUSHROOMS: Grill on the top shelf for 9 to 10 minutes, or until golden.
STEAK SARNIE: Put the steaks on a board. Sprinkle with salt and pepper, pick and scatter over the thyme leaves, and drizzle with olive oil. Rub the flavours into the meat, then flip over and repeat on the other side.
Pound the steaks once or twice with your fists to flatten them a little, then put them into the screaming-hot griddle pan to cook for 1 to 2 minutes on each side for medium rare, or longer if you prefer. This depends on the thickness of your steaks, of course, so use your instincts and cook them to your liking. Wash your hands.
POTATOES: Check they are cooked through, and drain in a colander. Return the pan to a high heat, add a good lug of olive oil and tip the potatoes and garlic back in. Use a potato masher to lightly burst the skins open (don’t mash them though).
Add a few sprigs of rosemary and a pinch of salt. Toss every couple of minutes until golden and crisp.
STEAK SARNIE: Put the ciabatta loaf into the bottom of the oven. Finely chop
the peppers on a large clean board. Move the steaks to the board and drizzle with extra virgin olive oil.
Finely chop a few parsley leaves, mixing them in with the peppers and all the steak juices. Scrape the pepper mix to one side of the board. Slice up the steaks at an angle.
MUSHROOMS: Remove the mushrooms from the oven and turn the grill off. Take the mushrooms straight to the table.
STEAK SARNIE: Get the ciabatta out of the oven and slice it open. Drizzle with extra virgin olive oil. Spread over the horseradish, then arrange the rocket leaves on one half. Lay the steak slices on top.
Mix and scrape the peppers and juices from the board and scatter over the meat, then fold together and take to the table.
POTATOES: Tip the potatoes on to a serving platter, and put ½ a lemon on the side for squeezing over. Take to the table.
View this recipe and some images at:
Daily Mail – Female – Jamie Oliver
As previously mentioned, the visuals may not match up to Jamie Oliver’s but don’t judge a book by its cover.
Or even better view the video here (Season 1, episode 5):
Jamies 30 Minute Meals – Steak Sarnie
Enjoy you Eats!
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