Steak is fine, but just

Steak is one of the most famous meat dishes of French cuisine, prepared much easier than it might seem at first glance. Cooking steak is as ornate as its name, calling reverent awe before this dish.

Hearing the phrase "French cuisine" many are starting to anticipate something delicious, with a delicate taste, and the word "steak" those who are with this dish is not familiar, causes inevitable Association with aristocratic, high kitchen. In a sense it is, but everything is much easier.

The steak is called a piece of meat cut from the area of the carcass between the backbone and ribs (with FR. language entre translates as "between", and cote is a "rib"). The name of this meat was the name of the dish prepared from it. And prepared initially and preparing today it is quite simple: fried meat with two sides on very hot pan with oil.

Initially, the steak was called only the meat of an ox, cut from the area between the backbone and ribs, and this part of the bull, veal or beef called "medalie, today so call this part and beef, and veal, and pork, and lamb carcasses.

Cooking a steak on the classic recipe should take no more than 10-12 minutes - this steak is well done. Today, however, is often permitted deviations from the classic cooking techniques, and steak even baked in the oven (an example of such a steak - meat in French). As of today, under the steak refers to a piece of meat without bones of a thickness of not more than 10-15mm and somewhat larger than the palm of your hand.

Recipes for steak

If you want to make it a classic steak, you will need to select the part of the carcass, and cook it according to the traditional technology.

The recipe for the classic steak

You will need: beef, cooking oil, pepper, salt, cognac or wine (Madeira/sherry or similar).

How to cook a traditional steak. Lightly beat the meat, to give the steak shape, brush with oil, put in a hot frying pan and fry until Golden brown on one side, flip to the second side, add salt and pepper (to do this, in any case not salted), and bring it to taromenane, immediately pour a little brandy or wine, cover, 2-3 min then the meat and remove from heat, 2 min withstand the cover and immediately serve.

As you can see, cooking steak is very, very easy! Any owner would be able to surprise her husband with a delicious meal with this meat dish with such an exquisite name without much difficulty. The most difficult thing is to find the right part of the carcass, that's exactly the same piece of meat from the intercostal space, due to nepovsemestnoy availability steak are often made of thin or thick edges beef.

Recipe steak from thick or thin edges beef

You will need: 700g beef, 4 tbsp vegetable oil or fat, black pepper, salt.

How to cook sirloin steak thick or thin edges. Slice the meat into thick slices no more than 20mm, then repel, RUB with pepper, put in a pan with hot oil, fry on one side until taromenane, flip, salt, fry until Golden brown on second side. Before serving, drizzle the steak released when frying meat juice. Serve with vegetables or roasted potatoes.

Those who often travels to nature, can cook a delicious steak on the coals.

Recipe steak on the coals

You will need: 650g thick or thin edges beef, 40g butter, black pepper, parsley, and salt.

How to cook steak on the coals. Slice the meat into slices of thickness 15-20mm, RUB with pepper and salt, cover with half of the butter, rastapi it, put on a hot grill and put on the coals of the fire and smoke from the coals should not be. When frying occasionally turn the meat than the slice thickness, the further from the coals it should be. The remaining oil to soften, stir in chopped greens, prepared meat grease herb butter, served with sprigs of greenery.

Very tasty stuffed steak, cooked with nuts and honey. It is believed that stuffed steak is a dish even more delicious compared to the traditional option to cook.

Recipe stuffed honey-walnut steak

You will need: 1kg thick or thin edges beef, 4-5 tbsp. of grated cheese, honey, chopped walnuts, grated almonds and chopped herbs, vegetable oil, salt.

How to cook steak with honey and nuts. Slice the meat into thick slices no more than 20mm to do in each deep cut-pocket. Mix grated cheese with honey, herbs and nuts, slightly sunflower. Stuff the mixture pieces of meat, to secure the cut toothpicks or sew thread. With two sides to taromenane fry the meat in a pan with hot oil, then bring until tender on low heat oven for 40-50 minutes, for 5 minutes until ready to coat the pieces of meat honey.

Finally here is one of the most delicious recipes steak - stuffed steak is alsaska.

The recipe for the stuffed steak is alsaska

You will need: 500g beef (thin edge), 5-8 peppercorns, 3-4 slices of bacon, 1 Bay leaf, onion, carrot, 0.5 cups of vodka, 2-3 tbsp chopped parsley or dill, 1 tablespoon flour, herbs, salt.

How to cook steak in alsaska. RUB the meat with pepper and salt, with pieces of bacon to fry on a hot pan or skillet, remove from the pan. Put in the pan with flour, fry it again to put the meat with bacon, chopped medium-sized onion, carrot, parsley, pour vodka (or water), braise, covered over low heat until tender. When serving, slice the meat into pieces, place in a dish, garnish with vegetables, with which it was roasting, pour the juice released during frying (remove fat) and garnish with greens.

The preparation of some dishes seem very sophisticated and complex for one reason or another - because of the name, appearance, or simply his foreign origin, in practice is often much simpler than we expected. Try to cook the steak and treat the men in your family!