Recipe:  Dave James Irish Beef Strips

When Dave James visits The Little Geranium, he can´t get enough of the amazing beef strips!  Now Steven Saunders has shared the recipe with us.

Ingredients for 2.

• 300grm of good quality beef fillet cut into thin strips
• 2 cloves garlic sliced thinly
• Half a red onion sliced thinly
• 2 cm square ( approx.) of fresh ginger chopped finely
• 1 teaspoon of black pepper ground
• Freshly milled black pepper
• 1 green Jalapeno chilli sliced thinly seeds removed
• 1 teaspoon of pimiento piquante or paprika
• 1 whole green pepper cut in halves with seeds removed
• Maldon salt
• Olive oil
• 2 tablespoons of red wine sauce made from beef stock
• Fresh coriander leaves
• A little chilli sauce optional

Strips Of Irish Peppered Beef

Method

• Firstly seal the pepper to colour it and bake in a pre heated oven for 5 mins drizzled with olive oil and seasoned with Maldon salt.
• Season the beef strips with the pepper and some Maldon salt
• In a frying pan in a little olive oil seal the beef strips to colour but not cook
• Remove the strips and allow to rest , they should be very rare at this stage
• In the same pan fry the onion, ginger and garlic together and add the paprika
• Add the beef stock and cook until a thick tasty and pungent sauce and now add the sliced chilli
• Now add back the strips of beef and cook for a 2 minutes to keep pink or for at least 5 minutes if you like it well done like Dave does!
• Remove the pepper from the oven and fill with the beef strips
• Glaze with a little chilli sauce ( listen to Steven describe how to make it here!)
• Sprinkle with fresh coriander and serve