Pepper Steak

Pepper steaks are quite yum yum especially with rice or chips or mashed potatoes.  We had this last week and it's worth cooking it since my hubby and I really enjoyed the peppery taste in the steak.  The capcicum added a bit of sweetness to it too which made the steak tastes even better.  You can always buy cream fraiche in any deli/grocery shops by the way. You can also choose not to use the cream too. 

Ingredients

2 beef rib eye steak

2 tbsp butter

1/4 c red wine

1 tbsp peppercorns, coarse milled

1/3 beef stock (dissolve 1/2 beef cube in hot water)

125 ml creme fraiche

1/4 c red capsicum, minced

salt to taste

Procedure

Dry the steak meat with kitchen paper.

Sprinkle salt on both sides.
Press the peppercorns on each side.  Make sure that they stick to the meat.
Heat up oil and butter in a non stick pan.
Fry steak according to your liking.
Deglaze pan with beef broth.
Add the rest of the peppercorns and cream.
Put the meat back on the pan to coat it a bit.
Remove the meat from pan and serve.
You can also pour the remaining of the sauce onto the steak if you want.

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Pinoy Bistek (Filipino Style Beef Steak)

One beef steak that I would always love to eat is the Pinoy Bistek that most Filipinos I'm sure would know how to cook.  It was my father who taught me how to cook this dish when I was just probably still in High School or Elementary.  I am not really sure but I know that I was quite young then.

This is also my nanay's favorite...so whenever she's here in Queensland, she would always request for bistek.  We normally use the calamansi or calamunding for the sauce mixed with soy sauce.  It's difficult to find this certain type of citrus fruit so we would use the fresh lemon juice extract instead.  To make the taste similar to the bistek we were used to have, I have to add a bit of vinegar.

Ingredients
2 pcs thin slice beef steak cut
juice of one lemon
1/2 c soy sauce
1 tbsp vinegar
1 medium size, onions, cut into rings
3 cloves garlic, crushed and minced

Procedure
Marinate the beef with soy sauce, lemon juice and vinegar for 10 minutes.
Heat a pan and sear the beef on both side. Remove the beef and set aside.
On the same pan, sautee onions and garlic.
Put in the beef. Make sure that both sides are infused with garlic and onion juice. 
Pour in the marinade to the pan. Simmer for a few minutes.
Serve hot with rice.

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Easy to Cook Italian Beef Steak

This is an easy to cook beef steak recipe that I have made.  I would usually do an Italian steak using pork chops but there's no more pork in my freezer so I ended up cooking the beef one.

Amazingly, the taste is quite good.  It's an honest to goodness dish that I'm sure you and your family will enjoy eating.

Ingredients
2 beef round steak cut
2 tbsp italian seasoning
salt and pepper to taste
olive oil

Procedure
Marinate each side of the steak with olive oil, salt and pepper and the italian seasoning for an hour. Make sure that you pat each side with your palm to make sure that the marinade is infused inside the meat.
Use a non stick pan in frying.  Do not put oil anymore in the pan since the steak has olive oil.
Cook the beef to your liking. 
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Crumbed Beef Schnitzels

Let's go Austrian this time!  Schnitzels are meat without bones.  That's the wonderful side of it -- no bones!  So you can just dig in with all gusto without worrying about biting into bones. 

These are thinly sliced meat from the leg or round. They are made more thin by pounding the meat with a meat mallet or rolling pin.  By doing this, the meat doesn't need to be cooked for a long time.  In this recipe 2 minutes frying on each side is already good.  Since I do not have a meat mallet, I used my ever dependable rolling pin. 

This recipe is quite an easy one to follow. Try and enjoy your schnitzels!

Ingredients
2 pcs of beef schnitzel beef cut
1 egg, beaten
1 c breadcrumbs
1/4 c parmesan cheese, grated
1/4 c mint, minced
1/4 c parsley, minced
1/2 c plain flour
1/4 c mixed seeds (sunflower kernels,poppy seeds, mustard seeds,sesame seeds)
salt and pepper to taste
olive oil

Procedure
Combine the breadcrumbs and the herbs, mixed seeds and parmesan. 
Add salt and pepper to the flour.
Roll the beef into the flour.  Pat with the palms.
Dip the beef into the beaten egg.
Roll the beef into the breadcrumb mixture.  Pat with the palms.
Fry in the heated olive oil until golden in color.
Add parmesan toppings on your schnitzels and serve with side veggies and rice or potatoes.

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Crumbed T - Bone Steak

Another beef steak style that will make your palate crave for more.  I have made a different approach to it to make it more tasty than that ones that you would usually order at a steak house or any restaurant. 

My hubby is an Aussie and I guess all Aussies love steaks and sausages.  No barby would be barby without them.  A party wouldn't be complete without steaks. 

When I was younger, the only steak I love was bistik, the Filipino beef steak style (which I will feature one of these days...I don't want to see beef for a while after we have finished all the beef in my freezer...heheh...a friend of the hubby gave him 2 big chunks of beef rounds), but when my husband and I got married in the Philippines in 2008, that's the start of my romance with steak too..hehehe.  Well anyway, enough of that...here is the recipe that I know you will definitely enjoy.

Ingredients
2 T-bone beef cut
1 tbsp basil
1 tbsp parsley
1 c breadcrumbs
salt and pepper to taste
2 eggs, beaten
parmesan cheese (optional)
oil

Procedure
Season the beef with salt and pepper.  Set aside.
Mix the basil, parsley and breadcrumbs.  Add salt and pepper to taste.
Roll the beef in the beaten eggs. 
Roll the beef in the breadcrumb mixture.
Fry both side in a heated non stick pan.
When cooked to your liking.  Serve in a plate at put some parmesan on top.

Note:  The difference with this steak recipe is that I seasoned the beef first with salt and pepper.


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