Steak with Peppercorn Sauce and home made Chips

Posted 2 January 2009
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I have been making this meal for Katie from time to time and is one of our fave’s. I can’t own up to the recipe as my own as I originally got it from the BBC food website, but can no longer find it online or even the tatty bit of paper I had, so decided to write it down somewhere I knew I could find it and share it.

The Ingredients are based one person

Ingredients

Sirloin Steak (or steak you prefer)
One Large Potato (or two small?)
Rosemary
Vegetables? (we have mange tout and baby sweetcorn)

Peppercorn Sauce

85ml Double Cream
1tsp Dijon Mustard
1 beef oxo cube
Splash of white wine
Splash of hot water
1tsp of crushed peppercorns

Method

Chips

Fill the saucepan of oil to about 2/3 full and heat until hot
Peel the potatoes and cut into chunky chips
Put the potatoes into the hot oil and fry for about 15/20mins until golden and crispy
Once finished, drain and serve

Peppercorn Sauce

Add the cream to a small saucepan and heat gently.
Crumble the oxo cube into the cream
Add Dijon mustard, and most of the peppercorns leaving some for the steak
Add wine and water stirring all together
Season with a pinch of salt and pepper
keep stirring until quite hot

Steak

Chop one or two sprigs of rosemary
Drizzle olive oil over the steak
Season with salt, pepper, crushed peppercorns and chopped rosemary
Heat Olive oil in a pan until very hot, cook the steak in for desired length of time (see below taken from how to cook a steak)

Guide to steak cooking times

The times given here are a guide only and refer to a steak that is approximately 2.5cm or 1” thick. Thicker steaks may require a longer cooking time, and vice versa for thinner steaks.

Rare: 1-2 minutes per side – rest for 6-8 minutes

Medium rare: 2-2.5 minutes per side – rest for 5 minutes

Medium: 3 minutes per side – rest for 4 minutes

Well done: 4.5 minutes per side – rest for 1 minute

Serve with cooked vegetables

chips, home-made, peppercorn, sauce, sirloin steak

Comments

# louise jones 767 days ago

really great!easy to follow and i’ll be making it now.my husbands favourite and i usually buy peppercorn sauce in a packet but maybe no more
# Lorraine 766 days ago

excellent sauce recipe, absolutely delicious!!
Thank you.
# Mary 765 days ago

Loved it – great sauce, goes well with eye fillet steak.
# Avi 753 days ago

Going to be making a variation of your sauce tonight. Thanks for the inspiration. Check out my blog tomorrow and you’ll see the fruition of my endeavour. http://61perry.typepad.com/from_suq_to_shuk/
# Vince 750 days ago

So easy yet so very tasty. Thanks for sharing your recipe
# Term Papers 732 days ago

Sounds delicious. But it serves for only one person.
# Brian 730 days ago

Term Papers – for 2 people double everything, 3 triple etc. That’s the way professional cooks and chefs do it
# Franchesco Alberto Garjulo 722 days ago

Great recipe, so simple
I added some brandy to the sauce for a bit of extra kick
Added mushrooms, tomotoes and green beans
Cooked it for the Mrs and my boys, they all loved it so much, everyone licked their plates clean
The Mrs was so impressed she tipped me in kind, wink wink, nudge, nudge, say no more!!!
Will be cooking it again tonight
# Sam Hardacre 722 days ago

@Franchesco Get in there mate : D
# Deanna Thomas 721 days ago

Delicious. Don’t forget to pour the juices from the rested steak back into the peppercorn sauce. I served it with some stuffed baked mushrooms and poured the ‘mushroom juice’ into the peppercorn sauce too. Took it to another dimention x
# Brenda Sutcliffe 720 days ago

Absolutely delicious, served with sirlion steak, medium rare, used juices from meat for extra flavour. Had to copy recipe for daughters, so another 2 satisfied fans, Great!!
# Sumi Glass 712 days ago

Many thanks for helping to make my husband’s Birthday meal such a success.
Peppercorn sauce was the ‘icing’ on the steak!
# Ryan Buchanan 705 days ago

excellent recipe, added crushed garlic and sautee’d mushrooms(incl. brine) to it though. gave it an extra welcome kick.MAGIC
# Zoe 682 days ago

Desperate for summat moist to go with our steak and chips – quick, easy and totally delicious – thank you!
# Paul 680 days ago

Outstanding, thank you it was so easy and full of flavour.
# ann 672 days ago

forgot to get a packet of peppercorn sauce searched internet and found your recipe won’t be buying packets anymore. Delicious
# Gurminder 671 days ago

Such a simple yet delicious recipe! As I didn’t have double cream, and had to make do with single, I decided to add a little butter which made also gave it a real velvelty texture. Thanks
# Nicky T 668 days ago

Brilliant – Thanks very much, every one loved it and said it’s better than the sauce they get in the restaurants!!
# kev henderson 668 days ago

my kids tara and chloe loved it they gave me 9/10 my son missed out ha
# Kate 657 days ago

Made this reciepe tonight, absolutely gorgeous! Definately will make it again
# Bev 652 days ago

Made this sauce last night my husband and son really enjoyed it i would definately do it again it gave the steak a real kick
# Chris 640 days ago

Used your recipe for the first meal cooked in my new place… Flat mate loved too! Thanks!
# Term paper help 615 days ago

I am quite sure they will learn lots of new stuff here than anybody else!
# Laura 596 days ago

I just tried this sauce and it worked brilliantly – so easy and so tasty. Thanks!
# wicks 586 days ago

great sauce mate. going to use it at college where im a chef
# Brad Smith 567 days ago

Tried this last night – it was delicious, thank you! I didn’t have any white wine, so I added a bit of Southern Comfort. Just the job. Delicious!

I would suggest this quantity of sauce could stretch to two if it had to.
# Sally Davies 563 days ago

That was an amazing sauce, so delicious, better than most pubs!! When my husband said he wanted steak with peppercorn sauce I thought I should try to make it. This was the first recipe I found and I will never look back, so easy, what a gem of cooking wisdom!

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