Steak Decisions

[juice]

Got some friends coming round tomorrow and I cannot for the life of me decide which steak to cook for them. I could just grill some steaks...but its a bit well, boring.

So option one is
Asian BBQ Steak
2 lb Flank Steak

Marinade of
1/4 cup chilli sauce
1/4 cup fish sauce
1 1/2 tblsp sesame oil
1 tblsp grated fresh ginger
3 cloves garlic

Flank Steak is marinated for about 3 hours before being grilled and sliced against the grain...


Or a Rolled Tenderloin stuffed with Leeks, Button Mushrooms and Stilton.

1 whole tenderloin, pounded thinly.
Filled with
Button Mushrooms
Leeks
Stilton Cheese

Whole thing is then rolled and tied, before being grilled, then sliced thickly
and served with Horseradish Cream

Fresh Horseradish
Cream
lemon juice

Both will be grilled, but I really like the sound of each of them...Which one would you pick ?

[Harry Flashman]

hanks for making me reakky, really hungry.

I'd go with the tenderloin. For maximum cheese shock value.

[Truckosaurus]

What will each be served with?

[juice]

Truckosaurus said:

What will each be served with?

Red wine.

Not sure to be honest...am struggling to decide on the steak first - will work out the incidentals afterwards.

Think I'm leaning to the Tenderloin too as it'll look more impressive sliced with a nice pinwheel of the filling. But the flavors of the Flank steak sound nice too and its a shed load cheaper than a whole tenderloin...Maybe will try the flank next week !

Cheers

[soad]

olly22n said:

God I fancy some steak....

So did i, decided to feed my addiction this week.
Sirloins mostly.

Back onto the topic - Asian BBQ Steak for me.
Why? It's spicy - makes it more interesting. Perhaps healthier too, no cheese.

[smack]

Asian BBQ Steak - I first thought the other one, but the Asian one with a salad I think sounds interesting.

[Mobile Chicane]

Carne asada - from Page 2 of the BBQ thread.

I used onglet steak (US = hanger steak).

[Marf]

Asian BBQ steak.

[Chuffer]

Asian BBQ Steak for me too. Sounds tasty, zingy and flavoursome (but then I'm a Thai food addict).

The other option does sound nice though.

[kiteless]

I went for the tenderloin.

Good steak - for me - is bestest pals with mushrooms and stilton. I'd go easy on the blue cheese though. My favourite local restaurant does a rib-eye with blue cheese, but it's a Stilton "glaze" over the meat so you still get that blue cheese sharpness without it overpowering the meat.

[OllieWinchester]

Asian for me, I fking hate cheese.

[Romanymagic]

So, Juice, how did it go and any pics of the food?

[juice]

No pics sadly - too busy scoffing.

Went for the Tenderloin in the end, was seriously nice. Cooked to Med rare with my trusty Webber temperature probe/wireless thingy.

The meat looked great, just what I wanted and the stuffing worked really well. The blue cheese wasn't over powering at all, in fact I added a lot more than I thought I would need - I added it to the leeks and mushrooms in the pan to allow it to melt then left it to cool before stuffing and rolling the tenderloin then lastly tied it up.

It was quite hard to keep the stuffing in as it wanted to ooze out the ends though.

Served it for me and wife on Garlic pureed Califlower, Grilled asparagus and brocolli (as we're doing the whole low carb thing)

For the guests as above, but with Fondant potatoes.

Going to try the Asian BBQ next, will remember to take pictures next time.

Edited by juice on Monday 25th October 12:08