Steak Bites with Melty Blue Cheese Butter
Impress your party guests with Chrissy Teigen's recipe for Steak Bites with Melty Blue Cheese Butter from her cookbook, Cravings.
From the book
Cravings: Recipes For All the Food You Want to Eat
Chrissy Teigen goes all out with her comfort food classics
Family favourites to satisfy your cravings
Decadent brunch and breakfast ideas
Introduction
Aaaah, my single-bite delights. Pepper-crusted steak with oozy blue cheese butter seems classy, so sex it up with some crushed-up potato sticks. Trying to impress a date? Maybe add a tiny little roasted potato on there. Maybe add a cherry tomato if they have a huge mouth. But if you go down that path, you better keep that classy sh*t up the entire relationship. That’s why I like to start with the potato sticks. Lets the dude know exactly what he’s getting.
Ingredients
| 50g | soft, creamy-style blue cheese, at room temperature |
| 1 tbsp | butter, slightly softened |
| 225g | sirloin steak, trimmed of excess fat |
| ½ tsp | flaked salt |
| 3 tbsp | roughly cracked black pepper |
| 2 tbsp | canola oil |
| a handful of crushed potato sticks (the kind you get at a supermarket or the corner shop, nothing fancy!) |
Essential kit
You will need: wooden, metal, or bamboo skewers.
Method
In a small bowl, mash the blue cheese and butter with a fork until smooth.
Pat the meat dry with paper towels and cut into twelve 1-inch cubes. Season it all over with the salt. Place the cracked pepper in a shallow dish and press the steak cubes into the pepper on all sides to form a pepper crust.
In a medium or heavy frying pan, heat the oil over medium-high heat. When shimmering-hot, add the steak cubes and cook on all sides until medium-rare, about 30 seconds per side. Remove the steak from the pan by stabbing each cube with a wooden, metal, or bamboo skewer. Squash about 1 teaspoon of the blue cheese butter on top of the meat (it will begin to melt down the sides if you play your cards right), then press a few potato sticks into the cheese.
