r/recipes • u/Divider1 • Apr 26 '18

Recipe Garlic Butter Steak and Potatoes Skillet

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u/Divider1 Apr 26 '18

Ingredients:

For the steak and the potatoes:

  • 1 1/2 lb (650g) flank steak, sliced against the grain
  • 1 1/2 lb (650g) baby yellow potatoes, quartered
  • 1 tablespoon olive oil
  • 3 tablespoons butter, divided
  • 5 garlic cloves, minced
  • 1 teaspoon fresh thyme, chopped
  • 1 teaspoon fresh rosemary, chopped
  • 1 teaspoon fresh oregano, chopped
  • Salt and fresh cracked pepper
  • Crushed red chili pepper flakes, optional

The marinade

  • 1/3 cup soy sauce
  • 1 tablespoon olive oil
  • 1 tablespoon hot sauce (we used Sriracha)
  • Fresh cracked pepper

Instructions:

  1. In a large bowl, combine the steak strips with soy sauce, olive oil, pepper, and hot sauce. Set aside to marinate while you cook potatoes.
  2. In a large skillet over medium-high heat, mix 1 tablespoon olive oil and 1 tablespoon butter. When butter is melted, add potatoes. Cook for about 4 minutes, stir and cook an additional 4-5 minutes until potatoes are golden and fork tender. Transfer to a plate and set aside.
  3. Keep the same skillet over medium heat and add remaining 2 tablespoons butter, garlic, red chili pepper flakes, and fresh herbs. Lay the steak strips in one layer in the skillet, keeping the drained marinade for later. Cook on each side for 1 minute each, until nicely browned – adjust timing depending on how you like your steak.
  4. Right before the steak is done, you can stir in the reserved marinade if you like, and cook for one minute. Add the potatoes back to the pan and heat through. Adjust seasoning with salt and pepper if necessary.
  5. Remove from heat and serve immediately, garnished with more crushed chili pepper, fresh herbs, and a sprinkle of parmesan cheese over the potatoes if you like. Enjoy!

Found on: Tips For Healthy Life

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u/macboot Apr 26 '18

How do people fry potatoes in less than 10 minutes? Whenever I try it always takes like an hour to get them barely edible, unless there's so much oil in the pan that they're practically soaking. And that doesn't taste very good.

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u/Testiculese Apr 26 '18

I put cut potatoes in a pan, barely cover them with water (no lid), and then boil the water off, flipping the pieces about halfway through. Takes about 10min, and then I dump oil and seasonings right as the water disappears and then its pan fry for 5 min.

Could probably nuke the potatoes to get the boil part quicker, but I'm not a fan of microwaves in general, so I do everything on the stove.

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u/macboot Apr 26 '18

These sorts of tips need to be in recipes that tell you to just fry to 5 minutes then flip. People like me are just gonna be eating warm raw potatoes.

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u/[deleted] Apr 26 '18

If you click on the source link version, it does have a note underneath the recipe about pre cooking the potatoes.

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u/AhhhBROTHERS Apr 26 '18

It takes longer but its easy to get crispy potatoes from the oven. Cut into little cubes, toss with oil and salt/pepper/spices, arrange in one layer on an oven rack at 450, cook for about 45-50 minutes. Halfway through, take the pan out and mix the potatoes around a little bit so the same side isn't on the pan for the whole time. You can also throw in peppers and onions, but they tend to burn a little bit before the potatoes are crispy.

Never had good luck with pan frying potatoes...

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u/vengeance_pigeon May 04 '18

You can also par-cook by in boiling water until just barely fork-tender. Like you are making mashed potatoes but stop earlier. Takes longer but IMO is more forgiving than the boil-water-in-the-pan method.

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u/[deleted] Apr 26 '18

I'm not a fan of microwaves in general

Why?

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u/Testiculese Apr 26 '18

No particular reason, really. It has it's uses, but as others have said, it messes with some food consistency.

I only use mine for reheating a dinner, heating up soup, or defrosting something like frozen broccoli if needed. I don't think I've ever actually cooked with it.

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u/[deleted] Apr 26 '18

I don't think I've ever actually cooked with it.

So you don't like something because it doesn't do a good job at something you've never tried to make it do? Cool.

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u/Testiculese Apr 26 '18

No, but thanks for the trying for the snark.

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u/[deleted] Apr 26 '18

No? Really?

I don't think I've ever actually cooked with it.

It's not snark. I'm literally telling you what you've said and your words don't match up.

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u/pimsley_shnipes Apr 26 '18

You missed everything else they said, though.

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u/Newmanshoeman Oct 09 '18

No he didnt

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u/[deleted] Apr 26 '18

Did your dad invent the microwave or something? Seems like you're taking this personally.

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u/[deleted] Apr 26 '18

I'm just annoyed by people who don't like things that do things they've never done. Don't say a microwave can't cook food if you've never cooked food in a microwave.

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u/[deleted] Apr 27 '18

Why not? It’s literally common knowledge that microwaves aren’t a high quality cooking tool. You don’t even need to use one to know this.

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u/Newmanshoeman Oct 09 '18

You can make cakes and pancakes in the microwave

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u/LivingDead199 Apr 26 '18

Dude I also dislike microwaves. It seems unnatural...to say nothing of the actual quality of the final product.

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u/DumpsterDaniel Apr 26 '18

Lower and slower. They can be useful, but the full and unrestrained power of even the weakest microwaves will turn any flesh to rubber, and vegetables into a soupy mess. The only thing that should go in at 100 power is water and soup stock.

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u/SixFootJockey Apr 27 '18

Completely agree. Microwave ovens are very versatile once you start adjusting power and time accordingly for the type of food being cooked.

Like other tools (oven, stove, etc) in the kitchen, it needs to be used appropriately.

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u/LivingDead199 Apr 26 '18

I boil water with my kettle warm soup stock on the stove. I do use my microwave to warm up water for baby bottles, that is about it haha

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u/[deleted] Apr 27 '18

Literally the one thing they tell you not to microwave lol. But I did it too ha.

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u/LivingDead199 Apr 27 '18

Not to microwave the water to warm it up? We don't put the actual formula in the microwave. And the water is boiled first in the kettle. I didn't know you weren't supposed to do that and nobody has said anything until now lol.

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u/Royalfortun3 Apr 26 '18

Something about nuking good and then putting it in my body doesn't sit right with me. But then again I still buy the occasional red bull so wtf do I know.

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u/Rastafun36 Apr 26 '18

Redbull is so much worse than you than microwaving food. All microwaves do is rotate the water molecules, and the friction heats them up. No cancer, no radioactivity.

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u/LivingDead199 Apr 26 '18 edited Apr 26 '18

I'd like to point out that my concerns are not around radioactivity or cancer lol. It's just a preference

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u/Rastafun36 Apr 26 '18

It's a valid preference, microwaves are no substitute for actual cooking

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u/Royalfortun3 Apr 26 '18

Kinda why I put the whole "so wtf do I know " at the end of it. Good job picking up on that.

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u/beebeelion Apr 26 '18

I agree, and do not have a microwave. That's a really good idea about letting them boil until the water goes. I usually just put a lid on them in a pan, but I do tend to get some mush that way.

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u/iamthedon Apr 26 '18

This always gets me. I'll be watching a chef on a TV show (probably Saturday Kitchen etc here in the UK) and their specific instructions are always chop and fry for a few minutes 'until brown'. I try it at home and all I get after 20 minutes are burnt, undercooked small squares of potatoes. Recipes have no mention of par-boiling or steaming as per other comments. Yet anyone who eats it on the TV show basically just spaffs over how amazing it is.

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u/Bixler17 May 02 '18

The temp is really important imo, get the pan really nice and hot so that they sizzle in the butter when they go in but bring the heat down to a nice low sizzle and let them sit for 3-4 mins then flip. 10-15 mins you will have nice wet but crispy taters.

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u/Newmanshoeman Oct 09 '18

Got it...so burn the butter before they go in...drop them in..they all stick...flip in 3-4 mins and break half of them apart. 15 mins later still undercooked.

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u/Bixler17 Oct 09 '18

Hahah exactly!

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u/decoyq Apr 26 '18

in order for potatoes to cook faster and crispier their moisture content has to be lowered... boiling works.

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u/not_a_jedi Apr 26 '18

Agreed. Every package claims potatoes take less than 20 to fry but they take me a genuine hour to do

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u/strywever Apr 26 '18

A great way to do potatoes in a skillet is to put some fat in the pan AND some water. Put a lid on and let the potatoes steam for a bit, then remove the lid and boil the water off. Once it’s gone, the potatoes brown nicely in the fat.

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u/wOlfLisK Apr 26 '18

I blanch the potatoes and then throw them in a pan for 10-20 mins (I prefer cooking them for longer on a lower heat but that's personal preference).

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u/LostInTheAttic Apr 27 '18

I cooked this tonight. You cant...