Receta Flank Steak Roll
Flank Steak Roll
Restaurants on Valentines Day are not my favorite, you get stuck with a limited menu and it is always so busy! Instead of going out for dinner we opted to cook a really nice meal at home. Flank Steak is a pretty affordable piece of meat that will take flavors very well. We bought 1 pound of flank steak for $9.95 and it could easily serve 4. This recipe was in the March/April 2010 Clean Eating Magazine.
Ingredients-
Cooking Spray
- 1/4 cup Whole Wheat Panko
- 1 tbsp Pine Nuts
- 2 tsp Red Wine Vinegar
- 2 cloves Garlic
- 1/4 tsp Fine Sea Salt
- 1/4 tsp Red Pepper Flakes
- 1 flank (1 lb) trimmed
- 6 cups Spinach Leaves
Kitchen String
Directions-
Preheat oven to 400 F, coat a baking pan with Cooking Spray
In a small bowl, combine panko, nuts, vinegar, garlic, salt and red pepper. Set aside.
Place steak on a work surface. Holding a sharp knife cut steak in half horizontally so it opens like a book.
Sprinkle panko mixture evenly over steak, leaving a 1-inch border along the farthest edge. Arrange spinach on top of panko mixture. Beginning with the edge closest to you, roll steak up, gently pressing down on spinach. Rotate steak roll so it’s vertical to you and tie at 1-inch intervals with kitchen string. Place steak on baking pan for about 35 minutes for Medium or 30 minutes for Medium Rare. Transfer to cutting board, loosely cover with foil and let rest for 10 minutes.
Remove foil and string and slice into 1/2 inch slices
We cooked the flank steak for 30 minutes and could have gong a few minutes less to make it a little more medium rare. Even though it was a bit more medium this steak is amazing- good flavor from the panko, spinach and the red wine vinegar. This recipe was a winner and would definitely do this again. To add more veggies to the dinner we simply roasted some broccoli with garlic and olive oil. Once out of the oven we grated just a bit of parmesan to add some complexity.
Since the steak had so many layers of flavor we went a bit lighter on the wine, we opted for a Cooper Point Pinot Noir. A solid pinot and a nice pairing to the steak. This was an awesome Valentines dinner and I am so glad we stayed home and enjoyed our own cooking and wine.