10-year-old prepared dinner last night with a little help from papa on the grill. Apparently it was her homework. More homework please!
Simple grilled steak and hasselback potatoes
(Adapted loosely from Taste of Life)
Steak
4 pieces of sirloin steaks
Sea salt
Freshly ground pepper
Red wine sauce
1 cup red wine
A handful of dried raisins
1 cup beef broth
1 tsp corn starch
Sea salt
Freshly ground pepper
Hasselback potatoes
1 lb yukon baby potatoes
Olive oil
Sea salt
Chopped fresh rosemary
- To make hasselback potatoes:
- Preheat oven to 350 F.
- Slice potatoes into thin parallel wedges, but stop just before cutting through so that the slices stay joined at the bottom of the potatoes.
- In a medium bowl, mix hasselback potatoes with olive oil + sea salt + chopped fresh rosemary.
- Bake for 30-35 minutes.
- To make red wine sauce for the steak:
- In a saucepan, heat red wine + dried raisins until reduced to half.
- Add beef stock.
- Add salt + ground pepper to taste.
- Finally add cornstarch to thicken the sauce.
- Keep warm.
- To make steak:
- Sprinkle sea salt + freshly ground pepper on both sides of the steaks.
- Heat the grill to high.
- Place the steaks on the grill and cook for 4-5 minutes.
- Flip the steaks over and cook for another 4-5 minutes (medium rare) or 6-7 minutes (medium).
- To serve:
- Serve grilled steak with red wine sauce and hasselback potatoes on the side.
- Add grilled vegetable (we had grilled asparagus) or salad as desired.