1. Recipe step by step
2. What is this steak served with?
3. Cooking Tips and Tricks

Meat is a product useful for the body, rich in proteins and fats necessary for human health. Minerals found in meat are involved in hematopoiesis and prevent the development of anemia. Proteins are a building material for muscles, so meat is always present in sports nutrition. A real steak comes from America, it is prepared from a whole piece of beef on a grill or a grill pan. This is a very popular dish all over the world, so the ability to cook it is necessary for every housewife.

Beef steak

Cook not just a steak, but a whole American dinner. Of course, the main dish will be fried meat. Serve with corn and salad. It will turn out great food for the whole family: simple, quick and satisfying.

Ingredients

For the steak:

beef	400 g
vegetable oil	30 g
spices	taste

For salad:

White cabbage	600 g
salt	5 g
cucumber	200 g
sour apples	90 g
radish	40 g
Sweet pepper	90 g
sour cream	100 g
Red pepper	5 g

For garnish:

boiled corn	2 cobs
butter	40 g

How to choose the right ingredients

For a steak, you need to choose chilled, not frozen beef.
The high quality of the meat will be indicated by a bright red color and white fat streaks. The yellow color of the veins indicates the old age of the meat.
The smell of meat should be fresh and pleasant.
The best parts for a steak: tenderloin, back or thighs. The most delicious is the steak from the fillet, located on both sides of the spine, it is round and long flesh. These parts of beef are the most juicy.

Recipe step by step

First stage

Meat preparation.

Wash the meat, dry with napkins or paper towels.

Remove veins and films.

Cut into portioned pieces one and a half to two centimeters thick.

Tap lightly.

Coat with vegetable oil.

Set aside for a few minutes.

Second phase

Salad preparation.

Wash and dry all vegetables.

Shred the cabbage.

Take about a pinch of salt and mash the cabbage with salt.

Cut apples and bell peppers into strips.

Divide cucumbers and radishes into 4 parts and cut.

Add the remaining salt and red pepper to the sour cream.

Stir.

Dress the salad with the resulting dressing.

Third stage

Roasting steaks.

Heat up the grill pan.

Put the prepared meat on it.

Fry on each side for 4 minutes.

Fourth stage

Preparation of the garnish (cook at the same time as roasting the steak in a regular pan).

Divide the pre-boiled corn into pieces 4 cm long.

Melt the butter in the pan.

Fry the corn in it until golden brown.

Fifth stage

Serving the dish.

Place the cooked steak on a large plate.

Sprinkle it with coarse salt.

Place toasted corn pieces next to it.

Serve the salad in a separate salad bowl.

What is this steak served with?

A traditional steak is simply fried meat without additives. However, it is often served with sauces, side dishes and salads.
Depending on your taste preferences, you can serve a steak with any of the sauces based on cream, sour cream, mustard, berry or mushroom sauces are good.
Grilled or oven-baked vegetables, cereals, and potatoes can serve as a side dish.
Salads made from fresh vegetables are great for meat: cucumbers, tomatoes, cabbage. In cold weather, you can serve salted and pickled vegetables.
A steak with an egg will perfectly satisfy your hunger - this is one of the favorite men's dishes.

Cooking Tips and Tricks

There are many secrets to making a juicy steak.

• The meat should be cut across the grain, it will be softer and easier to chew.
• For extra softness, the meat can be beaten off.
• In order to make the meat tender, it is pre-marinated. Vinegar, mustard, lemon juice, soy sauce, vegetable oil, mayonnaise can be used as a marinade: do not be afraid to experiment.
• Also, the meat is rubbed with various spices, which will give it flavor when frying.
• The steak is fried in a dry frying pan, or with a little butter. This is what gives the meat a golden brown color.
• Beef steak loves space: don't put pieces of meat close to each other in the pan. So they will be stewed, and not fried.

There are different degrees of doneness for steaks.

• With blood or rare (this is uncooked meat, it is cooked for about three minutes);
• Unroasted or medium rare (lightly fried, frying time is about 4 minutes);
• Medium or medium (it takes about 6 minutes to cook, pinkish, almost transparent juice is released from the meat when pierced);
• Almost fried or medium well (it takes about 8 minutes to cook, clear juice is released when pierced);
• Fried or well done (cooks 9-10 minutes, steams, almost no juice when pierced).
• It is better not to cook steak with blood from beef, it is bad for your health. If you want such meat, cook pork. Learn how to fry pork steak.
• "Beefsteak" is a collective concept, it is prepared not only from a whole piece of meat. There is also a variant of chopped steak.
• If you want soft and juicy meat, then beef steak can be cooked in batter. To do this, mix the egg with flour, add a little water or milk and dip the meat into this mixture before frying.