Pork steak in a frying pan with black pepper

Step-by-step cooking

1. Step 1:

   

   Prepare the ingredients for the dish. In order not to drown out the natural taste of meat too much, it is better to use only salt and ground black pepper as a seasoning. Those who like meat to taste sharper, can add more ground red pepper.

2. Step 2:

   

   Steak is best made from fresh pork tenderloin. The meat should be at room temperature so that the steak is well fried inside. Therefore, if it has been frozen, we allow it to unfreeze in natural conditions. Cut a piece of pork into plates no more than 3 centimeters thick. We wash the steaks and dry them with paper towels. Pour a little vegetable oil into the pan. Turn on the fire.

3. Step 3:

   

   Rub pork with spices on both sides. If the meat is greased with vegetable oil, then it is not necessary to pour additional oil into the pan. We use a cast-iron or thick-bottomed frying pan for frying steaks. Preheat the pan to hot. We put pork on it. Fry a piece of meat on one side until golden brown. Fry the steak on high heat, literally, for 3 minutes, then turn it over and fry on the second side also until ruddy.

5. Step 4:

   

   Boiling oil is strongly sprayed during frying, so you need to be very careful not to get burned. Immediately a piece of meat does not need to be pierced with a fork or knife, so that the juice does not flow out, but remains inside, then the steak will turn out juicy. Reduce the fire to medium. To prevent the meat from burning, you can add a little water to the pan. Cover the pan with a lid and keep the steak on fire for about 15 minutes. Then turn the steak over, turn off the fire.

6. Step 5:

   

   Leave the steak in the pan under the lid for another 15 minutes. Pork steak is ready. We serve it to the table, optionally with or without a side dish, with fresh or pickled vegetables and herbs. Bon appetit!