Ingredients
4 thick tenderloin
beef filets (10 oz. - about 2 inches thick)
2-3 Tbsp. butter
Salt and pepper
to taste
Instructions
Preheat the oven
to 415°F. Remove steak from the fridge 30 minutes before cooking to bring the
steak to room temperature and ensure your cooking times are more accurate.
Season both sides generously with salt and pepper.
Add the plain
butter to an oven safe cast iron skillet and turn up high, allow the skillet to
become scorching hot firs. Place the filets face down and sear undisturbed for 2
minutes (time it!). Flip the filets and sear for an additional 2 minutes.
This will give your filets a nicely seared edge.
Transfer your
skillet directly to the oven. [WARNING] the skillet may be hot, handle with
oven mitts.
Rare: bake 4
minutes (120° - 125°)
Medium Rare: bake
5-6 minutes (125° - 130°)
Medium: bake 6-7
minutes (135° - 140°)
Medium Well: bake
8-9 minutes (145° - 150°)
(Remember,
depending on the size of the steak, the more or less time it will take. This
recipe is ideal for 8-10 oz. portions, roughly 2-3 inches thick)
Remove filets
from the skillet and set on a plate, lightly covered with tin foil and let sit
for 5 minutes before serving. (This is important to bring your steak to its
final serving temperature.
Top with a slice
of garlic and herb butter and serve.
Garlic Herb Butter (make this first!)
½ stick butter
1 Tbsp. chopped
fresh rosemary
1 Tbsp. Chopped
fresh tarragon
½ Tbsp. minced
garlic
Soften the butter
in in a microwave safe bowl until malleable, 10-15 seconds. Stir in the herbs
and garlic until fully mixed. Spoon the butter onto tin foil doing our best to
reshape it to reassemble a stick of butter. Place in the refrigerator for about
10 minutes and remove 5 minutes before
adding to the fillet.
Notes
·
The secret to
cooking the perfect filet mignon is to combine pan searing in a cast iron
skillet with an oven finish.
·
Cooking steaks at
high temperatures in a skillet tends to get smokey. Open a kitchen window and
turn on your kitchen’s overhead vent fan begore you start to help with
ventilation.
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