Prep Time: 15 Mins
Cook Time: 5 Mins (longer if you like your
Steak more well done)
Serves: 2 People (if you want to make more just increase the quantities as needed)
Steak Salad with Pastrami Spices and Buttermilk
Ingredients
- 2 thin cut steaks
- 2 baby cos lettuces, roughly torn
For the Pastrami
- 2tsp sea salt
- 1tsp ground paprika
- 2tsp coriander seeds
- 1tsp black peppercorns
- 1tsp yellow mustard seeds
- 2tsp brown sugar
- 2 garlic cloves peeled & finely sliced
- 2tbsp oil
For the Buttermilk Dressing
- 3 ½fl oz. buttermilk
- 4tbsp mayonnaise
- 1 shallot, finely chopped
- 3tbsp chopped chives
- 3tbsp chopped flat leaf parsley
Method
- To prepare the pastrami spices; put all the ingredients except the garlic and oil into a blender and whizz to form a rough powder. Alternatively use a pestle and mortar.
- Transfer the powder to a bowl and add the garlic and oil. Rub the spice mix all over the steaks, cover and refrigerate for at least 2 hours or if you can overnight. Remove the steaks from the fridge an hour before cooking.
- To prepare the dressing; in a bowl whisk the buttermilk into the mayo, then stir through the shallot and herbs, season, cover and chill until needed.
- Heat a large non-stick frying pan and cook the steaks for 1-2 mins on each side or put the steaks onto a pre-lit BBQ. Transfer to a clean plate, cover and leave them to rest for 5 mins. Thinly slice the steaks
- Put the lettuce in a salad bowl, add the steak and the dressing, toss gently and serve with crusty bread.
