- 500g potatoes
- 2 garlic cloves
- A handful of wild garlic
- 45g butter, softened
- 2 top rump minute steaks
- 200g asparagus
- 250g cherry vine tomatoes
- 2 tbsp + 2 tsp olive oil
- Sea salt
- Freshly ground pepper
- 2 frying pans
- 1.
Scrub the potatoes and chop them into 1cm cubes. Flatten 1 garlic clove (skin on) with the flat of your knife. Warm a large frying pan on a high heat for a few mins then pour in 2 tbsp olive oil. Add the potatoes and the squashed garlic clove to the pan with a pinch of salt and pepper. Cover and cook for 15 mins, stirring now and then till the potatoes are golden and crisp. If you pan doesn't have a lid, use a baking tray to cover the pan.
- 2.
Meanwhile, finely chop the wild garlic. Peel and finely grate the other garlic clove into a bowl and mix in the softened butter with a good pinch of salt and pepper. Set aside.
- 3.
When the potatoes have cooked for 10 mins, warm a second frying pan on a high heat for2-3 mins. Rub the steaks with salt and pepper and 1 tsp oil each. Add the steaks to the hot pan and fry for 30 secs-1 min on each side for rare, or adding 1-2 mins more for medium or well done (see our tip for cooking slightly thicker steaks). Pop the steaks on a warm board or plate and loosely wrap them in foil. Leave them to rest for 5 mins.
- 4.
Snap the woody ends off the asparagus. Cut the cherry vine tomatoes into two bunches. Place the pan you cooked the steaks in back on a medium-high heat for 1 min, then add the asparagus and tomatoes. Cook for 4-5 mins, turning the asparagus once or twice till its lightly charred. The tomatoes should be beginning to burst.
- 5.
Divide the potatoes between 2 warm plates. Add a steak each and the veg. Add the butter to the empty steak pan to melt it for 1 min, then pour it over the steak and veg to serve.
- Tip
Pan ahoy
If you don't have two frying pans, you can roast the potatoes with 1 tbsp oil in the oven for 25-30 mins - Tip
Bash it real good
If your steaks are on the thicker side, you make need to cook them for 1-2 mins longer. Or you can place them between 2 sheets of baking paper and using a rolling pin, bash them till about 1-2 cm thick.