Beef Walnut and Blue Cheese Salad

This steak (opens in new tab) and bluish cheese salad (opens in new tab) with a walnut pesto dressing is the perfect meal for ii. There'southward cipher quite like a skillful steak, and we've ditched the fries in favour of salad here for a lighter meal option. If you have the time or the willing this is delicious fabricated with barbecued steak. Nosotros've used succulent sirloin steak in our steak and blue cheese salad recipe, but the joy of this is that yous can tweak information technology depending on your preference – ribeye or fillet steak would too be delicious and but every bit easy. Swapping the traditional pino nuts for walnuts gives the pesto in this quick steak and blue cheese salad recipe a gorgeous earthy season, for a slightly more grown-upwardly twist. If you like less pesto than the recipe requires then you can easily freeze the additional quantities to use on another day – it's delicious stirred through pasta or used every bit a salad dressing for green veggies, nonetheless warm from steaming. In fact, we like it so much that we ofttimes brand double, simply to ensure in that location is enough to stash abroad in the freezer for a afterward engagement!

Ingredients

250g sirloin steak
2tsp olive oil
100g crimson tomatoes, roughly chopped
50g watercress
50g blue cheese

For the pesto

bunch basil
clove garlic
75g walnuts
30g parmesan
150ml olive oil

Method

Allow the steak to reach room temperature. Rub well with the olive oil, and flavour generously. Bring a heavy-bottomed frying pan to a medium high heat and cook the steak for iii-4 mins on each side. Remove from the heat and rest.
To brand the pesto add all the ingredients to a food processor and blitz until smooth. Toss the cherry tomatoes in 1tsbp of pesto to dress.
Piece the steak thickly and arrange on plates with the tomatoes, watercress and crumbled blue cheese. Serve more pesto on the side, if liked.

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