Rib steak with pesto hollandaise and skinny oven chips

Rib steak with pesto hollandaise and skinny oven chips

Make the weekend worth the wait with our maximum-pleasure, minimum-fuss, bistro-style take on steak and chips. It’s perfect for a night in when you want to cook and serve a Saturday-night meal to remember – or impress a date or Valentine.

Rib steak with pesto hollandaise and skinny oven chips

Budget won’t stretch to côte de boeuf? Get the same wow factor by serving this onglet steak with watercress butter and shoestring potatoes.

  • Serves icon Serves 2
  • Time icon Hands-on time 50 min, oven time 50 min, plus soaking

Make the weekend worth the wait with our maximum-pleasure, minimum-fuss, bistro-style take on steak and chips. It’s perfect for a night in when you want to cook and serve a Saturday-night meal to remember – or impress a date or Valentine.

Budget won’t stretch to côte de boeuf? Get the same wow factor by serving this onglet steak with watercress butter and shoestring potatoes.

Nutrition: per serving

Calories
721kcals
Fat
26.8g (9.2g saturated)
Protein
70.8g
Carbohydrates
46.7g (2.1g sugars)
Fibre
5g
Salt
0.5g

For the steak and chips

Ingredients

  • 2 large maris piper potatoes, sliced into thin fries
  • 2 tbsp duck fat (buy it in a jar or use leftovers from roasting a duck)
  • 2 tbsp fine polenta
  • 850g British free-range côte de boeuf (6cm thick; see Know-how) at room temperature
  • Rapeseed oil for frying

For the pesto hollandaise

  • 
1 garlic clove, chopped
  • 
Small bunch fresh flatleaf parsley, roughly chopped
  •  
Small bunch fresh basil, roughly chopped
  • 1 tsp sea salt flakes
  • Zest and juice 1 lemon
  • 40g parmesan, grated
  • 50ml olive oil
  • 2 medium free-range egg yolks
  • 
1 tsp white wine vinegar
  • 
110g unsalted butter, cubed

You’ll also need:

  • Digital probe thermometer or meat thermometer
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Method

  1. Heat the oven to 220°C/200°C fan/gas 6. Put the fries in cold water and soak for 20 minutes. Drain and pat dry with kitchen paper. Put the duck fat in a large roasting tin and heat in the oven for 5 minutes until very hot but not smoking.
  2. Add the chips to the hot fat, toss to coat, then sprinkle over the polenta, season with salt and toss again. Roast for 50 minutes, turning now and then, or until golden and crisp.
  3. Meanwhile, make the pesto hollandaise (see tip). In the small bowl of a food processor (or in a pestle and mortar), whizz/pound the garlic, herbs, salt, lemon zest and juice and parmesan, then drizzle in the olive oil and whizz/pound again.
  4. Put the egg yolks and vinegar in a small glass/ceramic bowl and set over a pan of simmering water over a low heat (don’t let the base of the bowl touch the water). Using a wooden spoon, beat the egg yolks for a minute, then start adding the butter a cube at a time, beating all the time with the wooden spoon until the mixture has emulsified into a smooth sauce. Turn off the heat but leave the bowl over the pan. Just before serving, stir in the pesto.
  5. Once the chips have had 
20 minutes in the oven, heat an ovenproof griddle pan (or frying pan), rub the steak on each side with a little rapeseed oil and season with salt. When the pan is smoking hot, cook for 2-3 minutes on each side until deep brown all over. Put the pan in the oven below the chips and roast for 15-20 minutes until the thermometer reads 55°C (for medium-rare). Take out of the oven and rest on a warm plate, turning once, for 5-10 minutes. Serve on a platter with the chips and a bowl of the pesto hollandaise. Slice the steak and enjoy.

Nutrition

For the steak and chips

Calories
721kcals
Fat
26.8g (9.2g saturated)
Protein
70.8g
Carbohydrates
46.7g (2.1g sugars)
Fibre
5g
Salt
0.5g

delicious. tips

  1. You can also make hollandaise (steps 3 and 4) quickly in a food processor: make the pesto first and set aside. Rinse the processor bowl, then whizz the egg yolks and vinegar. Slowly drizzle in the melted butter with the processor running until the mixture thickens. Stir in the pesto and serve.

  2. Côte de boeuf (rib steak) is 
a cut from the forerib with the bone attached. The meat has good fat marbling and, as it’s cooked on the bone, lots of flavour.

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