Tournedos Rossini

Tournedos Rossini


Linda had bought a couple of filet steaks already dressed (had the bacon skirt held in place with those elastic garters). So we decided to have these for Sunday lunch (late as we had , had a full English earlier)

Ingredients

2 ready prepared filet steaks

Salt flakes,

Fresh ground pepper

Olive oil

Fois Gras (in this case as we had no fresh we used the preserved semi-cru)

Duxelle (mushroom, shallot and grain mustard)

Crouton (2 rounds of rye sour dough bread fried in duck or goose fat)

Oil, salt and pepper the steaks (I oil the steak and not the pan)

Method

Fry the duxelle until quite dry in a heavy based pan (cast iron in this case), in the same pan, heat a little duck or goose fat, add the croutons and fry until golden brown

Switch on the oven and allow to heat to about 180°C

Heat the frying pan until it smokes,

Place the steaks in the pan and do not move until they come away of their own free will, flip them over and repeat. Now brown the outside holding the tournedos with tongs.  Spread the croutons with the duxelle,

place a steak on each and sprinkle with salt flakes and fresh ground black pepper a plate, put the fois gras on top and place in the oven to finish cooking.

Now make the redwine sauce

¼ bottle redwine

250ml of stock (beef if you have it or better still a thick beef consommé)

2 teaspoons of olive oil

Very fine chopped mixed vegetables (carrots, shallot, leek)

50g of finely diced smoked ham (or speck)

½ teaspoon of sugar

Beurre marnier

Salt and pepper.

In the same pan add the oil and soften the veg (if finely diced it won’t take long) add the wine and reduce,

add the stock and sugar, reduce until it starts to thicken. Now whisk in the beurre marnier, a little at a time, until the sauce is rich and glossy.

Take the steaks out of the oven and allow to rest

Place a table spoonful of the red wine sauce on a plate, on top of this place your Tournedos Rossini.

We had this with spinach and creamed potatoes.

Pity we didn't have any truffles that would have just rounded it off!