How you cook your steak is just as important as the cattle it came from. Your steak deserves to be cooked to perfection. This dry aged sirloin steak is from a heritage beef breed and it’s been matured for 35 days before our butchers have boned it out and crafted it into a sirloin steak. One of the most important things about cooking a steak is taking it out of the fridge at least 20 minutes before cooking it to bring it up to room temperature. If you cook a steak when it’s cold it leads to the fibres constricting – resulting in the steak becoming tough. One thing most people agree on is: Do NOT grill your steak using a domestic grill. What you are trying to do is to get that caramelisation on the outside – very few domestic grills have the power to do that.
What you will need
- High quality sirloin steak
- Sea Salt and black pepper
- Tablespoon of butter
- Tablespoon of Olive Oil
A step-by-step guide
- Warm a plate to rest the steak on after cooking.
- Generously season your sirloin steak on all sides with some great quality sea salt. Add a few grinds of black pepper.
- Get your frying pan very hot and then turn it down a little.
- Add some olive oil to the pan.
- Once the oil is hot, add your steak to the pan fat-side down in the pan. Once the main bit of fat is nice and brown, do the opposite side for just 30-40 seconds.
- Turn the sirloin steak over and pour some of the beef fat over the top using a spoon.
- Cook for about two and a half minutes each side for medium – rare.
- Add a good tablespoon of butter when you are on the last side and spoon over the steak to baste.
- Leave your sirloin steak to cook for about another minute, spooning the butter and the beef juices over the steak during this time.
- When you’re happy with the caramelisation take the sirloin steak and rest it on a warm plate for at least 6-7 minutes.
- While it’s resting you can continue to baste it with the cooking juices.
- Carve using a really sharp, straight-edged knife.
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