Name: Fillet steak with red wine sauce recipe
Prep time: 25 min
Cook time: 35 min
Total time: 1 h
Yield: Serves: 4
Cuisine: British
Ingredients: 4 sweet potatoes (about 1kg/2¼lb), peeled and cut into chunks; 2 tbs olive oil; 8 sage leaves; Salt and ground black pepper; 4 x 175g (6oz) fillet steaks

By Jessica Dady

published 1 February 2011

in Recipes

A juicy and tender steak served with red wine sauce. This is easy to cook and a great dish for the whole family

Ingredients

4 sweet potatoes (about 1kg/2¼lb), peeled and cut into chunks
2 tbs olive oil
8 sage leaves
Salt and ground black pepper
4 x 175g (6oz) fillet steaks

For the sauce:

Knob of butter
1 onion, peeled and finely chopped
1 carrot, peeled and finely chopped
200ml (7fl oz) red wine
400ml can beef consommé or good beef stock
2 tsp butter mixed with 2 tsp plain flour
Pinch of sugar

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Method

To make the sauce: Warm the butter in a pan, add the onion and carrot, and cook over a medium heat for 5 mins. Add the wine and consommé, or stock, and simmer for 10-15 mins until reduced by almost half. Whisk in the butter-and-flour mixture to thicken it. Season and add the sugar.
Meanwhile, boil the potatoes for about 15 mins, drain well and dry out over the heat. Pour 1 tbs oil into a pan, add the sage leaves and fry until crispy. Take them out, put potatoes back in the pan with the flavoured oil, add plenty of seasoning and mash well.
Rub the rest of the oil over the steaks and season well. Heat a griddle or frying pan and cook the steaks for 2-4 mins on each side. Add any juices from the pan to the sauce before serving with the steaks, the mash, garnished with sage leaves, and your

Top Tip for making Fillet steak with red wine sauce

For a smooth sauce, whizzthe ingredients in the pan with a stick blender.

Jessica Dady is Food Editor at GoodtoKnow and has over 12 years of experience as a digital editor, specialising in all things food, recipes, and SEO. From the must-buy seasonal food hampers and advent calendars for Christmas to the family-friendly air fryers that’ll make dinner time a breeze, Jessica loves trying and testing various food products to find the best of the best for the busy parents among us. Over the years of working with GoodtoKnow, Jessica has had the privilege of working alongside Future’s Test Kitchen to create exclusive videos - as well as writing, testing, and shooting her own recipes. When she’s not embracing the great outdoors with her family at the weekends, Jessica enjoys baking up a storm in the kitchen with her favourite bakes being chocolate chip cookies, cupcakes, and a tray of gooey chocolate brownies.