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Minute Filets with Pickled Vegetables

  • Active Time

    45 min

  • Total Time

    45 min

The bright, acidic flavor of these quickly pickled vegetables would also marry well with salmon, chicken, or pork.

Ingredients

Makes 4 servings

For pickled vegetables:

1 1/4 cups water
1 cup distilled white vinegar
1/4 cup sugar
2 garlic cloves
2 large dill sprigs
1 Turkish or 1/2 California bay leaf
1 tablespoon coriander seeds
5 whole allspice, crushed
2 medium carrots
2 celery ribs
1/3 seedless cucumber (about 1/4 pound)
5 large radishes

For beef:

1 garlic clove, smashed
3 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil
4 (2-inch-thick) center-cut filets mignons (beef tenderloin steaks; 1/2 pound each)
  1. Pickle vegetables:

    Step 1

    Bring water, vinegar, sugar, garlic, dill, bay leaf, spices, and 2 1/2 teaspoons salt to a boil in a small saucepan, stirring, then simmer 2 minutes.

    Step 2

    Cut carrots, celery, and cucumber into 1 1/2-to 2-inch lengths, then julienne all vegetables, including radishes, with slicer. Transfer to a medium bowl, then pour warm pickling liquid over vegetables and let stand while you prepare and grill beef.

  2. Prepare beef:

    Step 3

    准备直接加热烹饪烤架在热车rcoal (high heat for gas); seeGrilling Procedure.

    Step 4

    Combine garlic and oil in a small bowl.

    Step 5

    Remove the string from meat if tied. To cut each steak into a long rectangle that is about 1/2 inch thick, stand it on its side on a cutting board, with a flat side facing you. Hold knife blade parallel to and 1/2 inch above cutting board and, with other hand holding top of meat, slice crosswise into meat (keeping blade 1/2 inch above board) just until you are 1/2 inch from cutting through. Rotate meat to left (or right, if left-handed) and continue to cut and rotate meat until it's unfurled and 1/2 inch thick.

    Step 6

    Brush beef on both sides with garlic oil, then season both sides with 1/2 teaspoon each of salt and pepper per filet. Oil grill rack, then grill beef, covered only if using a gas grill, turning once, 4 minutes total for medium-rare.

    Step 7

    Drain pickled vegetables and discard dill, garlic, and bay leaf. Serve beef topped with vegetables.

Cooks' note.

Beef can be cooked in a 2-burner grill pan over medium-high heat.

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  • This one really surprised me! The pickled veggies give a strange but welcome bright snap to what would usually be a great but somewhat leaden and predictable dish. Great idea here.

    • gsaye506

    • Atlanta

    • 8/10/2010

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