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Cheese Recipe 4:
Beef with Yorkshire Blue Cheese Sauce

Cheese Recipe Ingredients

  • 6oz Yorkshire Blue diced
  • 4 x 6oz Fillet Steaks
  • 2 Chopped shallots
  • 2floz Whisky
  • 1 glass White wine
  • 1/4pt Chicken stock
  • 1/4pt Double cream
  • 12oz cooked green beans
  • 2oz Butter
  • Clove of garlic
  • 12oz Potatoes
  • 2tbsp Oil
  • 1tsp Picked fresh thyme
  • Salt & pepper

Cooking Instructions

  1. Heat 1 tbsp oil in griddle pan, cook steaks, keep underdone, take out and keep warm.
  2. Put in chopped shallots and cook slowly, do not colour.
  3. Add Whisky and 'flambé'.
  4. Extinguish by adding white wine and reduce by 1/3.
  5. Add chicken stock and reduce by 1/2.
  6. Add double cream and reduce.
  7. Take from the heat, put diced cheese into sauce and allow to melt.
  8. Meanwhile cut Potatoes into 1/4 inch cubes.
  9. Fry in 1tsbsp oil and 1oz butter until cooked and golden brown, when cooked, remove most of fat, add rubbed thyme and season.
  10. At the same time melt 1oz butter.
  11. Sweat crushed garlic, add green beans and reheat, season.
  12. Serve the steaks laid over the green beans.
  13. Pour the sauce over the steaks and Potatoes around.