Servings : Serves 4-5
The most tender, most delicious fillet steak cuts, and my hubby’s absolute favourite meal. I normally serve it with a pepper steak sauce which adds amazing flavour and spice to the meal. Our favourite ‘special weekend’ dinner!! 🙂
Ingredients for Marinade
- 1 kg fillet steak, cut into slices (get the tenderest cuts of meat) - Make small cuts on the fillet slices. Make a paste of the ingredients below and rub on both sides of the steak. Cover & refrigerate for 4 hrs to overnight
- 1 tbsp. ginger paste
- 1 tbsp. garlic paste
- juice of 1 lemon
- 2 tbsp. yoghurt
- 2 tsp. red chilli powder
- 1 tbsp. roughly crushed black pepper
- 1 tsp. salt
- 2 tbsp. melted butter
- 1/2 tsp. cumin powder
Ingredients for Pepper Sauce
- 1 onion, chopped fine
- 2 tbsp. butter
- 1 tsp. vinegar
- splash of soya sauce or any steak sauce (like A1, Worcestershire, HP sauce..etc.)
- 1 tsp. corn flour mixed in a bit of water to form a paste
- water (you can use the stock remaining from boiling steak)
- salt to taste
- 2 tbsp. cream (optional)
- 1 tbsp. crushed black pepper
Instructions
For the Steak
Mix everything into a paste, then apply on the steak slices on both sides. Cover and refrigerate for at least 4 hours, preferably overnight.
Put the steak in a pressure cooker with 1 cup of water and cook for about 10-15 minutes, or until tender. Remove and set aside. Heat 2 tbsp. of butter on a frying pan, then fry the steak on both sides just to give it a nice color.
If any water remained after boiling the steak, set it aside to be used in the sauce.
For the Sauce
Heat the butter in the same pan as you fried the steak, fry the onions until almost golden. Add the vinegar and scrape any meat stuck on the pan. Add the water and salt, simmer together for a while. Add the corn flour and stir until slightly thickened, then finally add the cream. Mix together, add the black pepper, splash of soya sauce or any steak sauce, adjust salt and your sauce is ready to serve
Salaams sister I just wanted
Salaams sister I just wanted to say that I love cooking this dish for my family, it is an amazing dish and we all love it. well done and keep up the good work. 🙂
I wanted to ask do I need to
I wanted to ask do I need to cut a standard beef steak further into thin slices? N if yes then in how many approximately. …n also I dont have a pressure cooker….can I cook it in a simple pot n if yes then procedure will b same or a lil bit different?
Am not sure I understand what
Am not sure I understand what you mean by how many approximately. Is your steak presliced? It just needs to be in slices of about half inch thickness. And yes you can cook in an open pot. Keep the heat on medium to low.
Finger licking
Finger licking
Hi. If im boiling normal as i
Hi. If im boiling normal as i dont have a pressure cooker, how much water do i put n how long do i boil for? Also am i boiling with the marinade? Reply soon so can make tonight. Thanks.
Hi, start off with a quarter
Hi, start off with a quarter cup of water plus the marinade. Then top up with more if needed. 🙂
Hi,
Hi,
Thank you for sharing your wonderful recipes! If I make this with lamb meat, do I still need to do the boiling stage and if so for how long in a pan on the cooker as I don’t have a pressure cooker. Thanks!
Hi, yes just preboil the meat
Hi, yes just preboil the meat first until tender on low heat at a gentle simmer.
Can u plz tell me alternate
Can u plz tell me alternate to pressure cooker
If i simply boil it in pot
Please read the comment above
Please read the comment above yours.
Can u make the steak sauce a
Can u make the steak sauce a day before
Yes you can.
Yes you can.
Salaam aleikum.my qn is my
Salaam aleikum.my qn is my steak was hard though i had boil it wid the marination n quater of water
W/Salaam, which cut of steak
W/Salaam, which cut of steak did you use?
A.a.hope ur okay.. I wanna
A.a.hope ur okay.. I wanna try this pepper steak but confused on the cream.. which one should I buy? Shukran
W/Salaam, any cooking cream
W/Salaam, any cooking cream will work for this, be it heavy or single cream.
Salaam Fauzia,
Salaam Fauzia,
Hope you’re well. I’ve made this before and I have to say it was a hit with my husband who is a big fan of steak, I’d tried other recipes and didn’t turn out as good. But for the life of me I don’t know how much water I added to the sauce!!! For this recipe, how much water would you need to add to the sauce? I think when I made it I ended up making less sauce, probably bc of the amount of water I’d added.
Hoping you can reply very soon as planning of making it for tomorrow’s iftaar Insha’Allah!
Take care
Hafizah
W/Salaam, thanks for such a
W/Salaam, thanks for such a lovely feedback. Start off with 1 cup of water for the sauce, and after cooking if you find that it is too thick add a little more very gradually while stirring when it is still on the stove to loosen it up.
Jazakillahu khaira. I made it
Jazakillahu khaira. I made it again and husband liked it just as much! Alhamdulillah.
I have another question though, I’m thinking of making mixed steak this time for tomorrow’s iftaar Insha’Allah, chicken and lamb. I used this recipe for lamb and it turned out really nice. I know you have a different recipe for chicken steak but it’s quite different to this, and even the sauce in both the recipes are quite different. How would you suggest I go about making mixed steak? Which recipe to use for the chicken steak? Shall I use this one and make it together with the lamb or use the Chicken steak recipe? Also then which sauce? Such a big dilemma for me! Can’t decide as I don’t know how it’ll taste!!!!
Hope you can help me somehow and advice me Insha’Allah.
Take care Fauzia!
Hope Ramadhan is going well for you.
Thank you! I think the
Thank you! I think the chicken steak works best with the other recipe, you can then serve it with the sauce given for the other one. Hope it turns out well for you! 🙂
Hello i tried to make dis
Hello i tried to make dis recipe it turnout awesome, just wantd to ask can i make dis recipe wit fillet cubes for friends gathering of 20ppl?
Hi, yes that should be fine,
Hi, yes that should be fine, although smaller cuts of meat will take less time to cook.
Hello i made dis recipe it
Hello i made dis recipe it was bang on!! Wanted to ask if i want to make for friends gathering around 18ppl bt i want to do with steak cubes will it be nice?tia
Yes it will.
Hi, id like to make this, my pressure cooker boils meat for 45 mins atleast and your instructions say 15 mins.
What do i do? Thankyou
Fillet meat does not require 45 minutes, it gets tender very quickly.