Minute Steaks with Rosemary New Potato Smash
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Total: 35 mins
A summer supper of juicy, flavoursome quick-cook minute steaks with a smashing side of rosemary-scented seasonal new potatoes and a tangle of fresh watercress.
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653 kcal
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Ingredients you'll need
  • 2 tbsp cider vinegar
  • 2 tsp caster sugar
  • 6 garlic cloves
  • A handful of chives
  • 1000g new potatoes
  • 4 red onions
  • 90g butter
  • A handful of rosemary, leaves only
  • 4 top rump minute steaks
  • 100g watercress
From your kitchen
  • Sea salt
  • 1½ tbsp olive oil
  • Freshly ground pepper
You'll need
  • Large pan with lid
  • Frying pan
Step by step this way
  • 1.

    Put a large pan of salted water on to boil. Pour 1 tbsp cider vinegar into a mixing bowl and add 1 tsp caster sugar. Peel and crush 1 garlic clove and add it to the bowl with 1 tbsp olive oil and a pinch of salt and pepper. Finely chop the chives and add them to the bowl, then whisk together to make a dressing. Set aside.

  • 2.

    Scrub the new potatoes and roughly chop them into small, equal-sized pieces. When the water is boiling, add the potatoes. Simmer for 15 mins, or till they’re tender when pressed with a fork.

  • 3.

    While the potatoes cook, peel and finely slice the red onions. Warm a frying pan for 1 min over a medium heat. Add half the butter and the onions. Season and fry for 8 mins, stirring now and then, till the onions have softened and browned.

  • 4.

    While the onions fry, peel and grate or crush the 2 remaining garlic cloves. Pick and finely chop the rosemary leaves.

  • 5.

    When the potatoes are cooked, drain them and tip them back into the pan. Roughly crush them so they break into large clumps – you don’t want a smooth mash.

  • 6.

    Stir the crushed garlic into the onions. Cook, stirring, for 1 min. Add the potatoes to the frying pan with ½ tbsp olive oil. Cook for 10-12 mins, stirring once or twice, so the potatoes crisp up and turn golden.

  • 7.

    While the potatoes fry, warm a separate frying pan or griddle pan on a high heat for 2-3 mins. Rub some salt and pepper into the minute steaks. Add the remaining butter to the hot frying pan and add the steaks. Fry for 1 min on each side, then pop them onto a plate and loosely cover with foil. Rest the steaks for 2 mins.

  • 8.

    Give the garlic and chive dressing another whisk, then toss the watercress with the dressing.

  • 9.

    Stir the rosemary into the new potato smash. Serve the steaks with the rosemary smashed potatoes and the dressed watercress on the side.

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