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Fillets Of Beef A La Bearnaise

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United Kingdom

Known as a British recipe, with similar versions prepared across other nations.

Ingredients 5 ingredients

  1. Beef
  2. Cut
  3. two ounces of butter
  4. Sirloin
  5. Fillet
Contains Milk Read from the ingredients, not verified. Check labels.

Cook safely

Keep children and pets away from the hob and the oven, and keep oven gloves and a lid within reach.

  • Hot oil. Never put water on an oil fire: turn off the heat and cover the pan with a lid or a damp tea towel. Pat food dry before it goes into hot oil, and lower it in gently, away from you.
  • Sharp knives. Cut on a board that doesn't slip (a damp cloth under it helps), and curl the fingers of the hand that holds the food.

Method

  1. Cut the fillet out of a sirloin of beef, trim it and make it, if not already so, quite round ;
  2. cut eight fillets about half an inch thick, flatten them, and trim them to exactly the same size ;
  3. put them in a saute pan with two ounces of butter, and fry them for seven or eight minutes ;
  4. set them round an entrde dish, and pour over them half a pint of Sauce Bearnaise (No.
  5. 21).

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Frying pan
  • Chef's knife