Quick Christmas recipe for 4 - 8 people, takes only 5 mins; recipe has fillet steak, baby gem lettuce, rapeseed oil, parsley, rapeseed oil, garlic clove, red wine vinegar, oregano, red chilli, lime, fish sauce, groundnut oil and sugar.
Steak lettuce cups
Course: Quick Christmas
Servings
4 - 8
servings
Prep time
10 mins
Ingredients
- Garlic Clove: 1 small garlic clove, crushed
- Red Chilli: 1/4 red chilli, finely chopped
- Sugar: pinch of sugar
- Parsley: 1 tbsp chopped parsley
- Lime: 1 lime, zested and juiced
- Oregano: pinch of dried oregano
- Rapeseed Oil: 1/2 tbsp cold pressed rapeseed oil
- Fish Sauce: 1/2 tsp fish sauce
- Red Wine Vinegar: 1 tsp red wine vinegar
- Groundnut Oil: 1 tsp groundnut oil
- Baby Gem Lettuce: 4 Baby Gem lettuces
- Fillet Steak: 200g fillet steak, excess fat trimmed
Directions
- Take the steak out of the fridge 30 mins ahead of frying it. Mix the chimichurri ingredients with 1 tbsp water, season and set aside. Mix the ingredients for the chilli & lime sauce and set aside. Separate the Baby Gem lettuces so you have 20 leaves ('cups').
- Heat anon-stick frying panover a medium-high heat. Coat the steak in the oil, season, then fry for 2-3 mins on each side. Set aside for 10 mins, then cut into 20 slices. Place a steak strip on each cup. To serve, top half with the chimichurri and half with the chilli & lime sauce.
