Steak, Chunky Chips and Sweet Onions

POSTED AT 16:07 on 16th January 2008

This is a simple recipe for chunky chips (or fries - depending where your from), sweet onions and steak.

Won’t really go into cooking the steak in too much detail as everybody has their own method, and if not there are hundred out there including my spicy steak recipe that I showed you with Ostrich a few months ago.

Depending on how fast you are at preparation this whole recipe will take around 45-60 mins from the first cut to serving.

Chunky Chips

These will be crunchy, golden brown chunky chips/fries. Very quick and easy to make and go with a lot of other dishes.

Ingredients
1) Couple waxy white or red potatoes.
2) Salt
3) Course black pepper
4) Dried chilli flakes
5) Olive oil

Method
1) Lightly wash the potatoes.

2) Cut into nice thick wedges. Make sure that they are all roughly the same size, so they all cook evenly.

3) Season with salt, pepper and some chilli flakes.
4) Lightly coat in olive oil.
5) Get your hands in there and make sure each wedge is covered in oil and the seasoning.

6) Bang them in the oven (220C ish) for around 30-40 mins or until golden brown.

Sweet Onions

Ingredients
1) Onion
2) Olive oil
3) Salt/pepper

Method
1) Peal the onion and cut into half rings about 0.5cm in width.
2) Cook in a pan with a bit of olive oil.

3) Season, lower the heat as far as possible. Put the lid on and allow to sweat and slowly cook for around 30-60 mins. Make sure you stir them ever few mins to prevent burning. You want to cook the onions slowly without them burning to get the sweetness out and to make them silky soft.

Steak

For this recipe I’m just going to use some sirloin beef steak, cover it in a little black pepper, salt and olive oil and griddle until medium/rare.

Tip
When seasoning the steak, season one side and the plate or board in front of the steak. Then once your done, simply lift the steak forward onto the seasoning. Saves you time and ensures that both sides of the meat have the same amount of seasoning.

Putting it all together

Since the onions will require the longest cooking time begin to prepare them first. Once they have started to sweat down, cut the chunky chips and get them in the oven.

At this point you don’t need to do much for 30 mins, so you can leisurely season and prepare the steak. Once the chips begin to golden you will then want to begin heating your griddle pan for the steak.

Doing everything in this order will ensure it’s all ready at the same time and nothing is cold or burnt.

Enjoy!