FLOWER POT KITCHEN: STEAK TACOS

30 Mar 2018

STEAK TACOS

Gorgeous succulent tender feather blade steak marinated with chilli, cumin and Harissa, skillet seared and stuffed in to soft corn tacos or salads leaves and served with a zesty lime coriander and jalapeño yogurt drizzle.

Marinating time min 1 hour / Cooking time 4 minutes / Resting time 5-7 minutes

Ingredients

(serves 4)

1 kg feather blade steak or fillet

50ml olive oil

1 tsp ground cumin

1/2 tsp chilli powder

1/2 tsp Himalayan sea salt

1/4 tsp black pepper

2 tsp harissa paste

8 tbsp plain yogurt

1 lime halved

1 fresh jalapeño diced

1 bunch fresh coriander chopped

12 soft corn tacos or salad leaves

Take your steak and place in a food bag or glass dish, pour over the olive oil then rub all the spices, the cumin, chill, salt and pepper all over the steak, leave to marinate for at least one hour or 24 hrs in the fridge or for a make ahead dinner put in the freezer until needed.

Heat your skillet medium hot and place the marinated steak in the skillet, cook the first side down for two minutes without touching, turn over and cook the other side for a further two minutes, take the steak out of the skillet and leave to rest while you make all the fixings.

If using soft corn tacos warm through and wrap in a tea towel to keep warm, place on the dinner table ready to go, if using salad leaves place on a platter on the table.

Mix half the lime juiced with the yogurt, mix in the diced jalapeño and most of the chopped corinader.

To serve slice the rested steak in thin slivers and leave resting in all their juices, drizzle over the harissa along with the lime juice, coriander jalapeño yogurt along with a sprinkling of the remaining fresh coriander, serve family style next to the warm corn tacos or salad leaves and let you family just tuck in with extra lime juice drizzle if wanted.

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Welcome to my daily life of cooking, one winters day many years ago my family and I were all inspired by a back to back rainy day of River Cottage this got us to stop talking about and start actually doing, suddenly three weeks later eight vegetable beds were dug, greenhouse erected and our first vegetables were propagating, this was the start to raising and growing our own food, our fabulous son Oscar changed our path in life which lead us to sell our small thriving restaurant of 10 yrs and to start our new life (Terrifying!) a life of the self sufficient in touch with nature and seasons, taking a step back and looking forward to a slower change of pace and making the most of every moment.

My passion for cooking was stronger than ever and having time at home with Oscar I found I had a new direction and I was no longer striving for perfection, I was suddenly very passionate for the enjoyment of the other side of food, something I had not realised, being the Chef/Cook and every other duty of your own small restaurant made me see that I never actually took time to cook what I wanted!

So there I was muddy boots and hands digging deep in more than one sense and I found myself transported back in time to where everyone grew some of their own food, it is a wonderful world with a real sense of achievement and loss, Slugs Snails and Caterpillars! But thats another story! Childhood memories of summers when I lived with my grand parents reminded me of so much that I had learnt about the make do and mend generation that I had forgotten.

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