Every Saturday, the team of La table des bons vivant offers seasonal recipes to make at home to feast with family, or with your friends.
Today, the fried flank steak from chef Bertrand Legrix.
Ingredients :
- 4 flank steaks or about 600 g of meat
- 2 tablespoons of green peppercorns
- 10 cl of cream
- 10 cl of veal stock
The stages of preparing a flank steak:
1.
Sear the flank steak over high heat in a sauté pan.
Brown on each side, set them aside in a covered container to maintain the heat.
2.
Deglaze the sauté pan with the veal stock and crushed pepper.
Let reduce over high heat.
3.
Add the cream, put the flank steak back in and let reduce for a few minutes over very high heat so as to heat the meat at the same time.
The ingredients for the fries
for 4 people:
- 1 kg of new potatoes
The steps of the recipe:
1.
Freezing time 2 hours.
2.
Peel the potatoes.
3.
Cut them into fries (2 cm x 2 cm x 6 cm)
4.
Put the fries in a container under running water for 5 minutes to remove the starch.
5.
Put 2 liters of cold tap water in a large saucepan
6.
Add the potatoes.
7.
Place the saucepan over medium heat.
8.
Simmer until the fries are cooked (about 20-30 minutes, depending on the variety of the potato).
9.
Carefully remove the cooked sticks from the water.
10.
Place them on a rack to dry them.
11.
Then place the rack in the freezer for at least 1 hour to remove more moisture.
12.
Put oil in a deep fryer or a saucepan (a depth of about 10 cm)
13.
Heat to 130 ° C.
14.
Fry the sticks in small quantities until a light crust forms (about 5 minutes),
15.
Remove them from the oil.
16.
Drain them on absorbent paper.
17.
Place them back on the rack.
18.
Place them in the freezer for at least 1 hour.
(At this point, if you don't want to cook and serve immediately, the fries can be stored in the refrigerator for 3 days.)
19.
Heat the oil in the deep fryer or pan to 180 ° C.
20.
Fry the potatoes until they turn golden (about 7 minutes).
21.
Drain, Sprinkle with salt.