Combining a perfectly cooked steak with succulent prawns, surf & turf embodies steakhouse luxury by bringing together the best of land and sea.
Surf & turf
Serves 2
Ingredients
For the turf
2 x 15cm beef bone marrow, halves
½ cup butter, softened
Handful parsley, rosemary and sage, finely chopped
Salt and milled pepper
2 x 250g rib-eye steaks
1 Tbsp olive oil
For the surf
5 Tbsp butter
2 cloves garlic, finely grated
1 lemon
6-8 Black Tiger Prawns, cleaned
2 tsp peri-peri spice
Salt and milled pepper
Method
- Preheat oven to 200°C.
- Place bone marrow on a baking tray, cut side up. Season. Roast for 30 minutes. Remove and set aside to cool.
- Mix the roasted bone marrow, butter and herbs. Season.
- Season the steaks. Heat olive oil on a high heat and fry the steaks to your liking, about 4 minutes per side.
- For the surf, heat 3 Tbsp butter in a pan over a medium heat and sauté garlic for a minute. Add lemon zest and juice, to taste. Season.
- Heat the remaining 2 Tbsp butter in pan and fry the prawns for 1-2 minutes per side, sprinkling with peri-peri spice before turning. Season.
- Top the rib-eye steaks with the bone marrow butter and the prawns with the garlic butter sauce.
- Serve with savoury rice.
Recipes & styling: Lichelle May
Photographs: Zhann Solomons
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