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I HATE A1. Any other sauces you put on your steaks?
I HATE A1. Any other sauces you put on your steaks?
I don't regularly use a sauce... But I do love a good chimichurri sauce! I make mine with red wine vinegar, fresh garlic, sea salt, ground pepper, red pepper flakes, olive oil, and minced fresh parsley, oregano and cilantro!
The one and only original: HP Sauce. It's the only brown sauce worth using. A-1 is no competition at all.
However, I really don't use "steak sauce". Due to my Irish upbringing, I call it brown sauce, and I put it on all kinds of things, but not steak, because good steak needs no condiments, and I don't waste my money on bad steak. (If I buy cheaper cuts of beef, I slow-cook them in a liquid.)
Brown sauce is especially good with smoked pork products, such as sausage and bacon. It's also really great on pan-fried potatoes. For those reasons, brown sauce is a breakfast staple in Ireland and the UK.
BTW, what you might call the "official sandwich" of the north of England is the bacon buttie, which consists of a soft roll, lean bacon (what Americans think of as Canadian Bacon), and lashings of HP. Yummy. (Fattening, of course, but worth the occasional splurge.)
That sounds really good - do you have the specifics and do you use it for things other than steak?
You can use it for just about anything if you like it. I've used it with pork too! But my favorite is ribeye or flank steak. If I have some Anaheim peppers in the fridge I'll mince those in too. I like hot/spicy, but not so much that it overwhelms the other flavors. That delicate balance is important to me.
But yeah...
1/2 cup olive oil
2 tbsp red wine vinegar
Salt/pepper to taste
1/2 tsp red pepper flakes
1 cup minced parsley leaves
1/2 cup minced cilantro
2 tbsp fresh minced oregano
You can play with the oil/vinegar combo depending on how much sauce you need. 1/2 cup to 2 tbsp is pretty standard for any sauce mix I make. It's one of my "rule of thumb" in the kitchen.![]()