Blue-Cheese Steak and Endive Salad for Two

By Colu Henry

Updated February 14, 2019

  • Romulo Yanes for The New York Times. Food Stylist: Vivian Lui.
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Why fuss with reservations when you can have your own bistro night at home? Hanger steaks are readily available, quick cooking and full of flavor. In this recipe, the steaks are seared, then slathered in blue cheese butter and served alongside an endive and radish salad dressed in a citrus vinaigrette, a perfect complement to the rich steak. This very special dinner comes together in about 30 minutes. If you'd like, toss baby potatoes with a little olive oil, salt and pepper and pop them into the oven to roast while you prepare the steak and salad.

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Ingredients

Yield:2 servings

FOR THE STEAK

  • 4 tablespoons unsalted butter, slightly softened

  • 2 tablespoons good-quality blue cheese, such as Roquefort, Stilton or Gorgonzola

  • 1 tablespoon finely chopped shallot

  • ¾ to 1 pound hanger or skirt steak, at room temperature

  • Kosher salt and black pepper

  • 1 tablespoon canola or grapeseed oil

  • Flaky salt (optional)

FOR THE SALAD

  • 2 Belgian endives, leaves separated

  • 4 to 5 thinly sliced radishes, a variety of colors if you can find them

  • ½ small fennel bulb, cored and thinly sliced (about ⅓ cup)

  • 2 tablespoons good quality white-wine vinegar

  • ¼ teaspoon orange zest

  • 1 tablespoon plus 1 teaspoon olive oil

  • ¼ cup Italian parsley leaves, torn

  • 1 tablespoon chives, cut on an angle into ½-inch pieces

  • 1 tablespoon roughly chopped tarragon

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Nutritional analysis per serving (2 servings)

6 grams carbs; 202 milligrams cholesterol; 814 calories; 27 grams monosaturated fat; 8 grams polyunsaturated fat; 29 grams saturated fat; 69 grams fat; 1 gram trans fat; 3 grams fiber; 843 milligrams sodium; 45 grams protein; 1 gram sugar

Note: The information shown is Edamam’s estimate based on available ingredients and preparation. It should not be considered a substitute for a professional nutritionist’s advice.

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Preparation

  1. Step 1

    In a small bowl, stir together butter, blue cheese and shallot, and set aside.

  2. Step 2

    Season steaks well with salt and pepper on both sides and set aside.

  3. Step 3

    Meanwhile, assemble your salad: In a large bowl, gently toss together the endive leaves, radishes and fennel. In a small bowl, whisk together the white-wine vinegar, orange zest, olive oil, parsley leaves, chives and tarragon, season to taste with salt and pepper and set aside.

  4. Step 4

    Heat a large cast-iron pan over medium-high heat until very hot, 2 to 3 minutes. Add the canola oil. When it shimmers, add the hanger steak and let it cook, undisturbed, until it begins to crisp and brown on one side, 3 to 4 minutes. Flip and finish cooking about 3 minutes more or until a meat thermometer inserted in the thickest part reads 130 degrees for medium-rare.

  5. Step 5

    Move the steak to a cutting board, and spread with 2 tablespoons or so of the blue cheese butter and let rest 5 to 7 minutes. Slice steaks against the grain and finish with flaky salt, if desired. Plate the steak and serve with the salad alongside, spooning the dressing on top of the salad.

Tip

  • There will most likely be leftover blue-cheese butter. Pass it at the table or slather it on top of a roast chicken later in the week. It will last up to five days in the fridge.

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alain banan

this beautiful dish you can make it even better in taste by adding the world wide famous Danish Blue Cheese - you will never forget to use that cheese again , it's such a rich taste in any matter - i'm sure yoy'll love it alain , copenhagen

virginia

The blue cheese butter is amazing. I will make this (and use it) much more often. I didn't get my pan quite hot enough so my steak was a little bit overcooked. Lesson learned for next time. Overall great, simple recipe. I had forgotten how nice it is to just have a simple steak and salad for dinner!

Nicole

Delicious recipe. Very simple. Couldn't believe how flavorful the dressing because it's so freaking simple. Orange nicely came through. Definitely important to use higher quality white wine vinegar, it's not as sharp as the utility everyday stuff. One note: if you taste the blue cheese butter mix and you feel it REALLY needs salt, I'd advise to hold off on adding any...since the steak is already seasoned pretty well with salt. You can always add some on top after the first bite.

amy222pink

This is a simple and perfect recipe .

Kate

I made this with cold leftover steak and blue cheese crumbles instead of blue cheese butter. It was excellent! The herbs really make this salad work.

Brendan Hasenstab

Must admit, the salad was a bit fiddly for the two of us, so we went with spring mix and a basic shallot vinaigrette. (Admittedly with some really nice dry sherry vinegar.) Anyway the steak with the blue cheese shallot butter was really good. At our local meat market the skirt steak looked great so we went with that. Oh, so very tasty as written. And maybe we will work up to the orange-zest dressing someday.

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