Eye fillet with mushroom sauce and roasted winter veg
This warm and delicious will be a hearty meal the whole family will enjoy.
Ingredients:
For the roasted winter vegetables
- 1 carrot, peeled, cut in half lengthways and sliced 1cm on an angle
- 1 parsnip, peeled, cut in half lengthways and sliced 1cm on angle
- 400g orange kumara, scrubbed and diced 1.5cm
- ½ red onion, sliced 0.5cm
- 2 teaspoons runny honey or maple syrup
- 1–2 handfuls baby kale leaves (or use baby spinach)
For the eye fillet with mushroom sauce
- 300g beef eye fillet steaks (at room temperature)
- 3 tablespoons white wine or Marsala
- ½ red onion, finely diced
- 125g white button mushrooms, thinly sliced
- 1 teaspoon soy sauce
- ½ cup sour cream
Method:
1. Preheat oven to 220C. Line an oven tray with baking paper. Toss all vegetables (except baby kale) with honey/maple syrup and a drizzle of olive oil on prepared tray. Season with salt and pepper. Roast for 20–25 minutes, or until vegetables are starting to caramelise. Toss halfway to ensure even cooking.
2. When vegetables have 10 minutes' cook time remaining, heat a drizzle of oil in a large fry-pan on medium-high heat. Cook eye fillet for 3 minutes each side. In the final 3 minutes of vegetable cook time, move the vegetables to one side and add beef to tray. Continue to cook for a further 3 minutes.
3. Remove tray from oven and cover beef until ready to serve. Sprinkle kale over vegetables and toss to wilt.
4. Return same pan to medium heat (do not clean). Add wine/Marsala to pan, let it bubble and use a wooden spoon to rub bottom of pan to release any pan brownings. Cook until liquid has almost evaporated.
5. Add a drizzle of olive oil to pan along with onion and mushrooms and cook for about 5 minutes, stirring occasionally (add a tablespoon of water to pan if onion starts to burn). Add soy sauce and sour cream, immediately remove from heat and stir to combine.
To serve: Slice beef thinly against the grain. Divide roasted winter vegetables between plates and top with sliced beef. Spoon over mushroom sauce.
Written by Nadia Lim. First appeared on Stuff.co.nz.
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