🥩 Steak in creamy garlic pepper sauce

2 servings · prep 10 min · cook 20 min

Ingredients

• 2 beef steaks, 250 g each
• 5 garlic cloves
• 2 tbsp cracked black pepper
• 200 ml cream
• 100 ml beef stock
• 40 g butter
• 1 tbsp cognac (optional)
• Salt

Method

1. Take the meat out 30 min ahead, pat it dry and salt it generously.
2. Sear the steaks 3 min per side in a screaming-hot pan, then rest them 8 min on a rack.
3. Lower the heat, soften the crushed garlic in butter, add the cracked pepper and let it perfume the fat for 1 min.
4. Deglaze with the cognac, then add the stock and reduce by half.
5. Add the cream and let it thicken 4 min over low heat, without boiling.
6. Pour the resting juices into the sauce, slice the steaks and coat them.

Adapted from Fleisch-Rezepte (YouTube)

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