Steak Recipes – The Best Damn Steak Recipe Ever!
Steak Recipes – The Start Of A Great Steak
Steak recipes, there’s hundreds, possibly thousands of them but which one is the best? This is something that is most likely going to be argued by many but for arguments sake I’m going to just let you know what I feel is the best way to cook a great steak.
This steak recipe is going to be a bit on the fly, what I mean by that is that it’s going to be extremely open and just guide you through the process of creating a wonderful meal and experience. After all, that’s what we really want out of a great steak recipe, right?
Steak Recipes – Make Sure You Get Good Meat
For starters we need to begin at the butcher shop, I’m sure there’s a particular one in your town or city that you know has the best meat or a great reputation for producing great cuts of meat. This is where a great steak recipe begins, good meat. If you start without a good piece of meat it’s definitely going to be a challenge. It doesn’t really matter which type of steak you purchase, it could be a ribeye, T-bone, new york strip, sirloin etc. It’s simply important that you make sure you start off with a good cut of steak. Another important detail that we’ll get to later is that you need to make sure you purchase at least once extra steak.
Once you’ve selected the steak to begin your recipe you may want to check through the rest of the store for other food to include in the meal. Personally I almost always have to have a baked potato and house salad with my steak dinner, I also generally include some form of bread as well. Although by any means you don’t need to include this in your ultimate recipe for a wonderful steak dinner. If there’s something else you would like to have with your steak just make sure you pick it up.
A few other miscellaneous items you may want to include while you are at the store would be a bottle of your favorite wine, maybe even two bottles. If you’re not big on wine then it’s always nice to make sure you have some cold beer in the fridge as well. We also don’t want to forget about seasoning, if you don’t have any seasoning at home I advice at the least you pick up some Lawry’s seasoning salt, it definitely does a wonderful job of adding flavor and is something I would include in nearly every steak recipe.
Good Wine Is A Key Ingredient To Any Great Recipe
Once you’ve made it back to the kitchen it’s time to begin preparations. First off poor yourself a glass of wine or crack open that beer. After you’ve accomplished the first step it’s time to season your steak or steaks. If you have time before you’re going to cook the steak you may want to find a good recipe for a marinade that you think you would like and marinade the meat for a few hours or possibly even over night. Personally I generally go with a dry rub with a blend of spices that will create the certain type of flavor that I’m looking for and if I can’t figure that out I simply go with the Lawry’s seasoning salt that I spoke about earlier.
If go with a marinade for your steak recipes then I would advise to simply place the steaks either individually or all of them into a zip lock bag (sometimes I will double up the bags to help keep anything from leaking out). Also, don’t forget to get most of the air out. Once you’ve accomplished that I like to rub the bags with my hands and help work the juices into the steaks, I don’t know if it helps but I do it.
Now on the other hand if you’re going to go with a dry rub for your steak recipes, well that’s pretty easy. The only thing I would advise to be careful of is over seasoning your steak. I sprinkle the seasoning on both sides of the steak and then I use a tenderizer on the meat. Some people may prefer not to tenderize and then you may want to massage the seasoning into the steak with your hands. I’m fairly certain there’s not a wrong way to do it, however if you’ve already drank your fair share of an alcoholic beverage then you may want to let someone else use the tenderizer on your steaks.
The Best Steak Recipes Involve Grilled Steaks
Now onto the next part of the best steak recipe, cooking the steaks. This is something that you should definitely do yourself. Even if you’re not the best grill man (I always use a grill to cook steak, I don’t think you’re doing yourself any justice if you decide to cook it any other way). This is where that detail about purchasing the extra cut of meat for the steak recipes is going to come into play as well.
Once you know how everyone wants their steaks cooked then it’s time to fire up the grill and get to the cooking part of the best steak recipe. I like to sear the top and bottom of the steak as it helps to keep the juices and flavor inside the meat. That means I start cooking the steaks on the hottest part of the grill. I generally only leave them for a couple minutes on each side and then move them to a cooler part of the grill for further cooking.
While you’re cooking the steaks the extra steak is going to be your test dummy. You simply cut off small pieces and eat it while you’re cooking. That also means you don’t need to cut into anyone else’s steak while you’re cooking to check on it either. It may take you a little while to perfect this technique but I’m sure that in time you will find that it’s truly one of the best steak recipes if not truly the best steak recipe period.
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