This is my Dad’s recipe for simple iron-filled fillet steak with spinach and asparagus.
Over to Dad:
Ensure you buy quality fillet steaks from your butcher.
Ingredients:
- 2 beef fillet steaks (each about 140g/5oz)
- 4 tbsp olive oil
- 1 tsp cracked black pepper
- 1 tsp sea salt
- 300g fresh spinach
- 6 asparagus
- small bunch flat-leaf parsley
Method:
Rub the fillet steaks with half the olive oil and sprinkle black pepper and sea salt. Heat a griddle pan until hot, and cook the steaks to your preference (2 mins each side for rare, 3 mins, medium rare, 4 medium, 5 mins for well done).
Leave the steaks to rest for 5 minutes.
Meanwhile in separate pans, boil the spinach in lots of salted boiling water for 3 minutes and the asparagus for 5 minutes. Drain and drizzle with the remaining olive oil and sea salt. Serve with the steaks and garnish with parsley.
Fillet steak recipe ©George Psarias.
Photograph©Peter Broadbent.
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I do like a nice stake
This looks gorgeous, mmmm
Nothing beats a great steak!!
oooooh look at that juicy steak it looks amazing! Yum x
@Jenny Paulin it was delicious too x
Oh, wow, I have been craving steak all this pregnancy, now I have to get my Greek hubby to have a look at this and recreate it for us this weekend!
@Ooana79 oooh congrats and get your Greek hubby straight to the butchers!
I have just added steak to the shopping list for this weekend! Funny had you forget about cooking certain foods until you are reminded.
@Maybush Studio ooh enjoy!
My this looks delicious! I am feeling very hungry now x
@Onlythebestforbaby thanks, it was delicious too! x
As an unreformed carnivore (sorry) I love steak and this ticks all the boxes, love asparagus too!
@sarahhillwheeler love steak in my life (husband is a pescatarian…not sure how he does it living with me!)
This has seriously made my mouth water! x
@Lauren ooh so glad you like lovely x
We too love to have steak and spinach on a Friday night…with a big fat bottle of red – Friday night perfection! I’m going to do it like this next Friday for sure.
Just about to link up my Pumpkin Pie!
Anna xx
@Anna thank you darling and your Friday night sounds like mine! Fab friday food xx
Oh I adore spinach – that looks divine!
@Capture by Lucy thanks darling, it was so scrumptious…suprised P had time to take the shot as I ate it so quickly x