Smoky Minute Steaks with Sweet Potato Mash
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Total: 20 mins
A smoky seasonal take on steak and spuds, featuring flash-fried minute steaks topped with a rich pan-roasted cherry tomato sauce spiked with Spanish flavourings. Served with buttery sweet potato mash and a lemony lamb’s lettuce salad on the side.
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738 kcal
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Ingredients you'll need
  • 500g sweet potatoes
  • 45g butter, room temperature
  • 1 tbsp Spanish seasoning
  • 250g cherry tomatoes
  • 1 lemon
  • 2 top rump minute steaks
  • 50g lamb's lettuce
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  • Sea salt
  • Freshly ground pepper
  • ½ tbsp + 2 tsp olive oil
You'll need
  • Vegetable peeler
  • Large pan with lid
  • Large frying pan
Step by step this way
  • 1.

    Fill and boil your kettle. Peel the sweet potatoes and chop them into small cubes. Tumble them into a large pan, add a pinch of salt and pour enough boiling water from the kettle to cover. Pop on a lid, bring back to the boil, then simmer for 10-15 mins till the sweet potatoes are tender when pierced with a sharp knife.

  • 2.

    Meanwhile, add half the butter to a small bowl and tip in 1 tbsp Spanish seasoning. Add a pinch of salt and pepper and mix. Set to one side.

  • 3.

    Squeeze the juice from half the lemon into a large mixing bowl. Whisk with ½ tbsp olive oil and some salt and pepper to make a dressing. Set aside. Halve the cherry tomatoes.

  • 4.

    Warm a large frying pan on a high heat for 2-3 mins, till smoking hot. Rub the minute steaks with 1 tsp olive oil each and season with salt and pepper. When the pan is smoking, carefully add the steaks. Cook for 30 secs on each side for medium-rare, or a little longer for more well done, or if your steaks are on the thicker side. Lift the steaks out of the pan onto a warm plate, cover with foil and set aside to rest.

  • 5.

    While the steaks rest, pop the frying pan back on the heat. Add the cherry tomatoes with a pinch of salt and cook for 2 mins, shaking the pan now and then till the tomatoes are soft and charred.

  • 6.

    When the tomatoes have cooked for 2 mins, add the spiced butter mixture to the pan and then turn off the heat. Swirl to coat the tomatoes in the butter and set aside.

  • 7.

    Drain the sweet potatoes and tip them back into the pan. Add the remaining butter and a generous pinch of salt and pepper and mash the potatoes till smooth. Toss the lamb's lettuce with the lemony dressing.

  • 8.

    Pop the steaks onto a couple of plates and add plenty of sweet potato mash. Spoon the buttery tomatoes over the steaks and serve with the dressed lamb's lettuce on the side.

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