Saint Valentine’s Tenderloin with Pears and Malbec Honey

Ingredients:

4 medallions of beef tenderloin
3 ripe pears, thinly sliced
½ t Malbec wine
1 carrot, diced
1 clove garlic, minced
½ onion, cut into strips
2 tbsp balsamic vinegar
2 tbsp butter
1 tsp honey
1 tsp olive oil
Salt and pepper

Preparing:

Preheat oven to 180ºC (350ºF).

Fry the onion, garlic and carrot in olive oil for 5 minutes. .
Transfer to a bowl and reserve.
Brown spiced medallions in the same skillet on both sides.
Bake medallions for 10 minutes.

Return vegetables to skillet and add Malbec wine.
Add the balsamic vinegar, honey and butter when the wine has been reduced to a third par, and whisk well.
Add pears and wait about 3 minutes.
Strain the sauce, add salt and pepper and reserve the pears.

Serve the medallions, bathe with the sauce and accompanied by pears.

Grilled Burgers

Ingredients:

900 g lean ground chuck
1/2 cup fresh white bread crumbs
6 sesame seed hamburger buns
2 onions, chopped
1 egg, lightly beaten
1 1/2 tsp finely chopped fresh thyme
Salt and pepper

Preparing:

Preheat the grill.

Mix whit your hands the meat with onions, bread crumbs, egg, thyme, salt and pepper.
Form the 6 large burgers with your hands and cook over hot coal for 4 minutes on each side.
Cut the buns in half and briefly toast on the grill, cut-side down.

Make your burgers with tomato, onion, letucce, mayonnaise, mustard, ketchup, etc.

Steak with Passion Fruit Sauce

Ingredients:

200 g steak
8 ounce cream
6 once white wine
3 ounce passionfruit juice
1 ounce olive oil
1 tomato
1/2 rosemary small branch
Salt and pepper

Preparing:

Bake at 100ºC (200ºF) the whole tomato with the olive oil and pepper for 25 minutes.

Season the steak with salt and pepper.
Cook with oil in a hot frying pan until is a little gilded.
Bake at 100ºC (200ºF) for 8 minutes.

Sauce:
Reduce
the wine to half with the rosemary.
Add the cream and let boil.
Incorporate the passionfruit juice little by little and let it boils again.

Bathe the steak with the sauce.
Accompany with the roasted tomato.