Steak Merlot Recipes

Steps:

• Melt butter in a saucepan over medium heat. Stir in the mushrooms, garlic, and peppercorns, and saute until the mushrooms are tender. Pour in the wine, balsamic, and Worcestershire sauce, increase the heat to medium-high, and reduce by 1/3. Stir in the rosemary and cook for 1 to 2 minutes until fragrant.

Steps:

• In a heavy sauce pan over high heat, combine wine, chicken broth and beef broth. Bring to a boil, and cook until mixture is reduced to 2 cups, about an hour. (This can be prepared a day ahead - cover and refrigerate).
• In a small bowl, mix butter and flour. Heat 1 tablespoon olive oil in a large skillet over medium heat. Sprinkle steaks with salt and pepper, and saute until medium-rare, about 4 minutes per side. Transfer steaks to a plate.
• Stir shallots, garlic and thyme into skillet. Add 2 cups reduced wine mixture to skillet. Bring mixture to a boil, scraping up any browned bits. Whisk in butter mixture until smooth. Boil sauce until thick enough to coat a spoon, about 2 to 3 minutes.

Steps:

• Season Chop Steaks with salt, pepper, and Granulated Garlic
• Heat large skillet add Olive Oil, Quick Sear Seasoned Chop Steaks on both sides and remove from skillet
• Add onion, mushrooms, saute 5 minutes on medium heat.
• Return steaks to skillet, add enough Merlot to cover steaks, mushrooms and onions
• Simmer 40 minutes
• Add beef stock, return to simmer 5 minutes
• make a corn starch slurry with corn starch and water to thicken gravy, add to desired thickness

Steps:

• put all ingredients in a medium non stick sauce pan.
• bring to a boil and turn down to medium heat
• keep on medium heat for 10 minute
• sauce should reduce down to a syrup like sauce.
• pour over cooked steak of choice.

Steps:

• Boil wine along with chicken and beef broths in heavy large saucepan over high heat until it's reduced to 2 cups (~45min to 1 hour).
• NOTE: You can be prepare it to this point in advance, and cover and refrigerate.
• Mix butter and flour in small bowl.
• Heat 1 T olive oil in heavy large skillet over medium-high heat.
• Season steaks with salt and pepper and sauté to your taste (4 minutes per side would result in medium rare steaks).
• Remove steaks to a plate and keep warm (we put it in our microwave to keep the heat from dissipating) To your skillet, add shallots, garlic and thyme and stir 30 seconds.
• Add 1 1/2 c reduced wine mixture to skillet (reserve remainder for another use).
• Bring mixture to a boil and scrape up brown bits.
• Whisk in butter mixture until the sauce is smooth.
• Boil sauce until thick enough to coat spoon, about 2 minutes.
• Drizzle sauce over steaks, and serve remainder in a gravy boat.

Steps:

• Sprinkle steak with salt and pepper. Heat oil in heavy large skillet over high heat. Add steak and cook until brown, about 1 minute per side. Reduce heat to medium and cook steak to desired doneness, about 3 minutes per side for medium-rare. Transfer steak to plate; tent with foil.
• Add shallots to same skillet and sauté over medium-high heat 1 minute. Add Merlot; boil until reduced by half, about 2 minutes. Add stock; boil until syrupy, about 8 minutes. Remove skillet from heat. Add butter and whisk until melted. Season with salt and pepper.
• Cut steak into 2 pieces; place on plates. Spoon sauce over and serve.

Steps:

• Heat a stove-top grill pan or griddle with cooking spray and set over medium-high heat to preheat. Season both sides of flank steaks with salt, black pepper, garlic powder, and onion powder. Place steaks on hot pan and cook 5 minutes per side for medium meat. Let steaks rest 10 minutes before slicing crosswise into 1/4-inch thick slices.
• While the steaks are cooking, season both sides of polenta with salt and black pepper. Arrange slices alongside steak for the last few minutes of cooking; cooking slices 1 to 2 minutes per side, until golden brown.
• While the steak and polenta are cooking, heat oil in a large skillet over medium-high heat. Add pearl onions and cook 3 minutes, until golden brown stirring with a spoon. Add mushrooms and cook 3 minutes, until mushrooms soften. Add thyme and cook 1 minute, until fragrant. Add wine and bring to a simmer, for 5 minutes, until sauce reduces to 1/4 cup.
• Serve half of the steak over toasted polenta slices with all of the onion-mushroom mixture spooned over top. Reserve remaining steak for sandwiches.

Steps:

• 1. Spray oven broiler rack with PAM. Preheat broiler.
• 2. Mix salt, thyme, pepper, and garlic powder in cup. Rub seasoning mixture all over steak. Transfer steak to broiler rack. Broil steak 5" from heat until lightly browned, about 5 minutes per side.
• 3. Scatter onion in bottom of 5- or 6-quart slow cooker Top with steak. Whisk broth, wine, and tomato paste in medium bowl until smooth. Pour broth mixture over steak. Cover and cook until steak and onion are fork-tender, 4 - 6 hours on high, or 6 - 8 hours on low.
• 4. About 35 mins. before cooking time is complete, heat olive oil in a large non-stick skillet over medium-high heat. Add mushrooms and cook, stirring frequently, until lightly browned, about 8 minutes. Sprinkle with flour and cook, stirring constantly, about 1 minute. Stir mushroom mixture into slow cooker. Cover and cook on high, until mixture simmers and thickens, about 25 minutes.
• 5. Transfer steak to cutting board. Cut steak across the grain into 12 slices (three slices per serving). Serve with broth over top.
• 6. Weight Watchers calculates this as 7 Points. If you want to add a 1/2 cup of wild or brown rice and a side of steamed broccoli or broccoli-rabe to each serving, add 2 extra Points per serving.

Steps:

• Heat 1 tablespoon oil in each of 2 heavy large skillets over medium-high heat. Sprinkle steaks with salt and pepper. Add 3 steaks to each skillet; cook about 4 minutes per side for medium-rare. Transfer to platter; top each with 1 cheese wedge. Tent with foil to keep warm.
• Pour off drippings from 1 skillet; add wine to skillet and boil over high heat until reduced to generous 1/2 cup, scraping up browned bits, about 5 minutes. Remove from heat; add butter and stir until melted. Mix in parsley and chopped chives. Season with salt and pepper. Pour over steaks. Garnish with whole chives.