Beef filet mignon steak

Royal filet mignon steak is the perfect dish. Filet mignon is the most tender and expensive part of beef tenderloin. Amazing soft and juicy steaks are prepared from it, most often medium-rare.This part of beef does not have an expressive taste, so it is important to use spices and aromatic herbs.
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Composition / ingredients

Servings:
Translation table of volumetric measures
Nutrients and energy value of the composition of the recipe
By weight of the composition:
Proteins 34 % 10 g
Fats 52 % 15 g
Carbohydrates 14 % 4 g
174 kcal
GI: 100 / 0 / 0

Step-by-step cooking

Cooking time: 35 min
  1. Step 1:

    Step 1.

    How to make beef filet mignon steak? Pick up the products according to the recipe. Beef fillet should be at room temperature.

  2. Step 2:

    Step 2.

    Prepare the meat.Clean it from the hymen with a sharp knife.

  3. Step 3:

    Step 3.

    Cut steaks 5 cm high.Brush them with olive oil on all sides. Leave it on for 15 minutes. Do not salt.

  4. Step 4:

    Step 4.

    Prepare the sauce. Peel the onion from the husk, chop finely. Pass it in olive oil for 2-3 minutes.

  5. Step 5:

    Step 5.

    Peel the bell pepper from the inside and seeds, chop. Put it in a frying pan. Cook for about 2 minutes, stirring constantly.

  6. Step 6:

    Step 6.

    Cut the tomato in the same way and put it in a frying pan. Cook for 2 minutes on high heat. Reduce the heat to low, cover the pan with a lid and simmer the sauce for 5 minutes. Add salt, pepper, and mix. Put the sauce in an auxiliary plate. Cool it down. If desired, you can beat with a blender until smooth.

  7. Step 7:

    Step 7.

    Preheat the oven to 190 degrees before frying steaks.Pour oil into a frying pan, put a head of garlic, cut in half.Fry the garlic until golden brown and set aside. This is necessary for the aromatization of the oil.

  8. Step 8:

    Step 8.

    Put beef steaks in hot oil. Fry them on maximum heat for 2 minutes.

  9. Step 9:

    Step 9.

    Flip and fry similarly.

  10. Step 10:

    Step 10.

    Cover the baking dish with foil, leaving the free end for covering the meat.

  11. Step 11:

    Step 11.

    Grind mustard, juniper berries, pepper and cloves in a mortar.Put this mixture and bay leaf on the bottom of the mold.

  12. Step 12:

    Step 12.

    Place the steaks on top and immediately put them in a hot oven for 10 minutes. Then take out the mold, cover the meat with foil and leave for 5-7 minutes to distribute the meat juice throughout the piece.

  13. Step 13:

    Step 13.

    Serve with sauce and coarse salt. Add fried garlic. Just before serving, put a little butter with herbs on top of each piece.

Filet mignon dish will truly become a table decoration and will not take much time to prepare.If you are cooking such a steak for the first time - do not improvise, follow the recipe clearly.

Any oils are useful only until a certain temperature is reached - the point of smoking, at which the oil begins to burn and toxic substances, including carcinogens, are formed in it. How to determine the roasting temperature and choose the best oil for frying, and which is better not to use at all, read here .

Important! An incorrectly selected frying pan can ruin even the best recipe. All the details on how to choose the perfect frying pan for different dishes read here .

Keep in mind that everyone's ovens are different. The temperature and cooking time may differ from those specified in the recipe. To make any baked dish successful, use useful information about the features of ovens !

Caloric content of the products possible in the composition of the dish

  • Tomatoes - 23   kcal/100g
  • Sweet pepper - 27   kcal/100g
  • Garlic - 143   kcal/100g
  • Carnation - 323   kcal/100g
  • Bay leaf - 313   kcal/100g
  • Parsley greens - 45   kcal/100g
  • Butter 82% - 734   kcal/100g
  • Amateur unsalted butter - 709   kcal/100g
  • Unsalted peasant butter - 661   kcal/100g
  • Peasant salted butter - 652   kcal/100g
  • Melted butter - 869   kcal/100g
  • Juniper - 116   kcal/100g
  • Juniper berries - 116   kcal/100g
  • Black pepper peas - 255   kcal/100g
  • Salt - 0   kcal/100g
  • Onion - 41   kcal/100g
  • Olive oil - 913   kcal/100g
  • Pepper - 26   kcal/100g
  • Beef fillet (steak) - 189   kcal/100g
  • Beef fillet (roast beef) - 381   kcal/100g
  • Granular mustard - 135   kcal/100g

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