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Very close up view of juicy slices of rosemary steak on a wood board

Rosemary Garlic Butter Steak

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The best and easiest recipe to cook a perfect steak! See notes for all my tricks.

  • Total Time: 25 minutes
  • Yield: 4 servings

Ingredients

  • 4 sirloin strip steaks, about 7-0z each (1 to 1.5-inches thick, room temperature)
  • 2 or 3 garlic cloves
  • 2 tablespoons fresh rosemary leaves
  • 3 tablespoons butter
  • 1 tablespoon olive oil
  • Salt and pepper
  • A splash of white or red wine

Instructions

  1. Mince garlic and rosemary.
  2. Add 1 teaspoon salt (or to taste) and mince it a little longer. You can also do this with a mortar and pestle.
  3. Rub the paste over both sides of each steak.
  4. Heat a skillet over medium/high heat and melt butter. Add oil to prevent it from burning too much.
  5. Add steaks, season them with pepper and cook 1 or 2 minutes on each side.
  6. Turn it over, cook it 2 or 3 more minutes and add the wine (you can add extra garlic and rosemary now too to the skillet). It will steam furiously.
  7. Cook the steak 2 or 3 additional minutes for medium rare, remove steaks and let rest for 5 minutes.
  8. Meanwhile, cook the wine until reduced and a kind of sauce if formed.
  9. Slice the steaks and serve them with the sauce.

Notes

  • Temperature: always have the meat at room temperature. That way it’ll be more tender. If it’s frozen, defrost it overnight in the fridge. The less change in temperature while defrosting, the better.
  • Salting: add salt right before it goes into the skillet. If you want to infuse some garlic and rosemary, rub them on the steaks, leave them at room tº for twenty minutes, and salt them at the last moment.
  • Thickness: a steak should be two or three fingers (1.5 to 2 inches) thick if you want it medium rare with a good crust.
  • Preheating: Make sure the skillet or steak iron griddle is preheated.
  • Searing: the steak must be first seared - cooking it quickly over very high heat to seal in the juices - on both sides over high heat, but finished over medium/low (unless you like it very rare inside, almost raw). Otherwise, it will become flushed, as we say here, which means the outside is too dark before the inside gets a chance to cook properly.
  • Resting: Always let it rest for 5 minutes after you remove it from the heat source. The juices go to the outer part of the meat piece while cooking, and resting redistributes them.
  • Doneness: Never pierce or cut a steak to check for doneness. To test them, lightly press them down with a fork or kitchen tongs. The more it gives, or the flabbier it feels, the rarer it's still is. When it's very cooked, the meat will hardly yield when you press it. I know many use a thermometer, and it's fine as long as the needle is thin.
  • Author: Paula Montenegro
  • Prep Time: 15
  • Cook Time: 10
  • Category: main dish
  • Method: Grilling
  • Cuisine: Argentinian

Nutrition

  • Serving Size: 1/4
  • Calories: 513
  • Sugar: 0 g
  • Sodium: 685.9 mg
  • Fat: 37.4 g
  • Carbohydrates: 0.7 g
  • Protein: 40.5 g
  • Cholesterol: 171.6 mg