Description
Make a restaurant-quality steak right in your own kitchen with this tutorial on how to cook steak in a Teflon pan.
Ingredients
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- 1 1-pound ribeye steak (1-inch thick, boneless or bone-in both work. see blog post for other steak options)
- Salt
- Pepper
- Drizzle of neutral oil (vegetable or canola)
- 2 tablespoons of salted butter
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Instructions
- Take steak out of refrigerator and get to about room temperature before cooking.
- Season both sides with a light sprinkling of salt and pepper. You can also salt the edges if you like.
- Drizzle neutral oil (vegetable or canola) in a Teflon pan and heat on medium-to-high heat. Make sure the pan is hot before adding the steak. (my video shows all the steps very well).
- Add steak to pan and swirl gently just to make sure you've got oil on the bottom of the steak. You could also press with a fork to make sure steak is lying flat.
- Let cook on medium-to-high heat for 5 minutes without touching it. I’m going for a medium rare steak. If you want it more rare, turn it at 4 minutes.
- Turn steak at 5-minute mark for medium rare and cook another 2 1/2 minutes. For more rare steak just cook 2 minutes on second side.
- Optional: using tongs pick up steak and sear the edges for a few seconds.
- Add butter to pan, let melt, tilt pan (CAREFULLY) and baste the steak with butter (use a spoon for this). If you want to be extra cautious, before you tilt the pan, turn your stovetop burner off before basting with butter. A butter splatter can actually cause a grease fire so be careful!!
- Transfer steak to a plate and pour all the butter, juices and fat from the pan on top.
- Let steak rest for five minutes before cutting into it.
- Serve with your favorites sides. I love a baked potato with sour cream and scallions. And I do love asparagus with steak as well. Enjoy!