Steak with Garlic Herb Butter

A couple of months ago, I found this great website called Steamy Kitchen. Not only is the woman hilarious but she really knows her stuff too. So I was excited to see a method on her website for making a regular steak taste like prime steak. I was skeptical, but she made such a great argument for the method of salting the steak. After tasting the steak, my mind has been made up! This took about an hour to prepare but I wasn’t even around for 45 minutes of the preparation. That’s not bad!
You. must. try. this. method.
(oh and you will want to bathe in the butter…just saying)
I was going to dress up the picture with extra garnish, lettuce and other pretty stuff but the steak was so freaking beautiful that it just didn’t need it in my opinion.
I would say Enjoy but pish… like that will really be an issue!

Prep Time: 1 hour (10 minutes active)
Cook Time: Varies on your preferred doneness on steak.

Steak with Garlic Herb Butter
Make sure you check out the photos on her website here for step by step photos on salting the steak.

Buy a good-sized Choice steak. I like mine 1.25 to 1.5 inches thick. Any cut of steak: Filet, Sirloin, Rib Eye, Porterhouse, T-Bone and NY Strip – they all work. Though, please remember to get steak that you’d normally buy to grill. Don’t go buying some weird cut like the cow armpit and expect it to taste just like a NY Strip. You can do this with steaks less than 1″, just really watch your timing. If your steak is already superbly marbled – cut back on your timing and your salt! The fattier (more marbled) the meat is, the faster the salt works its way through the meat.

2. Sprinkle 1/2 to 1 teaspoon of kosher/sea salt PER SIDE. Use the photos at beginning of the post as guide on how much salt. For every inch thickness of steak, let sit at room temperature for 1 hour.
•Less than 1-inch steak: 30-45 minutes
•1 inch thick steak: 1 hour
•1.25 inch steak: 1 hour and 15 minutes

If you don’t have that much time — well then, add more salt, cut back the time it sits. It’s all related:

Thickness of meat : Amount of Salt : Time

And vice-versa, if you need to stretch your time, use less salt. Example: the above steaks that are 1.25″ thick – I should salt for 1 hour 25 minutes. But if my timing works out that I’m not grilling for 2 hours – then I’ll cut back on the salt and let it sit for 2 hours.

If you want to salt for more than 2 hours or overnight – sprinkle the steak with 1/2 the amount of salt that I’ve instructed (look at photos for reference), cover with plastic wrap and refrigerate.

3. Rinse all salt off on both sides, pat very dry with paper towels on both sides <- that part is important. Season with fresh ground pepper (no more salt is needed). Grill to your liking. Top with Garlic-Herb Butter immediately to let it oooooze and aaaahhze all over the steak Garlic Herb Butter: 1 stick of unsalted butter, softened (not melted, just softened) handful of fresh herbs (any combination is fine. My fav is basil and parsley) 2 cloves of garlic, smushed in garlic press To make the Garlic-Herb Butter, combine all ingredients. Lay out a sheet of plastic wrap. Spoon butter mixture on wrap. Roll and shape butter into a log. Refrigerate to firm up for 30 minutes. Slice into 1/4” disks to top the grilled steaks. You can make butter up to 3 days in advance. Make sure you use unsalted butter – the steak is seasoned perfectly already.

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