Beef Tenderloin And Arugula Toasts Recipes

BEEF TENDERLOIN BITES ON A BED OF ARUGULA

Steps:

• Preheat broiler to high.
• Mix bread crumbs with parsley, cheese. Warm the oil and garlic over low heat to infuse flavor, 5 minutes. Pour oil into bread crumbs and combine to distribute equally and moisten the bread crumbs.
• Season the meat with salt and pepper. Coat the meat in bread crumb mixture to coat evenly. Spread meat onto baking sheet and broil until crisp and meat is tender, 6 to 7 minutes. Serve meat on bed of shredded arugula with pasta alongside, such as Spicy Crab and Vermicelli. Give a squeeze of lemon juice over the beef and arugula.
• Place a large pot of water on to boil. Add pasta and salt water. Cook to al dente.
• While water comes to a boil, heat a deep skillet over medium heat. Add extra-virgin olive oil and butter. To warm oil and butter add crushed red pepper flakes, garlic and shallots, saute 3 minutes, add shiitake mushrooms and cook until tender, 3 to 4 minutes more. Deglaze the pan with sherry or Marsala wine, scatter in crabmeat - feeling for shell bits as you go. Warm the ingredients through, a minute or so, stir in tomatoes and heat through, 2 to 3 minutes. Stir in half-and-half or cream and reduce heat to lowest setting.
• Drain pasta when cooked to al dente and toss with sauce and crab. Top with cheese, if using, and basil.

GRILLED BEEF TENDERLOIN ON FOCACCIA TOASTS

Steps:

• Heat the oven to 400 degrees F.
• Toss the tomatoes into a roasting pan, drizzle with some olive oil and season with salt and pepper. Cook until the tomatoes have collapsed, about 30 minutes. Remove them from the oven and let them cool.
• Drizzle the garlic with olive oil, wrap it in foil, and bake it until soft, about 30 minutes. When cool enough to handle, squeeze the soft garlic onto a cutting board. Strip the needles from the rosemary, add them to the garlic, and chop them together. Pour 1 cup olive oil into a small bowl; add the garlic and rosemary mixture and lemon juice. Season with salt and pepper and mix well. Set aside until ready to grill.
• Char the outside of the pepper under the broiler or over a gas flame. Put it into a bowl and cover it with plastic wrap. When cool enough to handle, peel, seed, and chop and put it into a blender. Add the mayonnaise and chili paste; process until smooth. Taste and adjust seasoning with salt and pepper; refrigerate until ready to use. (Can be made the day before.)
• Heat the grill. Remove the meat from the refrigerator about 1/2 hour before you are going to grill it. Brush it with some of the flavored olive oil and season it generously with salt and pepper. Grill the tenderloin, turning frequently, until the meat is rare or medium rare, about 8 to 10 minutes. Remove to a platter and let it rest for 5 minutes, brushing it with the flavored olive oil. Cut the beef into thin slices.
• To serve, put some of the flavored mayonnaise onto a piece of focaccia toast. Top it with a thin slice of the beef and spoon on some of the roasted tomatoes. Garnish with some arugula leaves and serve.
• *Cook's note: Have your butcher clean the fat and silver skin from the tenderloin and tie it.

BEEF TAGLIATA WITH RADICCHIO AND ARUGULA

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°F. Whisk first 3 ingredients in small bowl. Place beef on platter; spoon marinade over and turn to coat completely. Let stand 1 hour. Sprinkle meat all over with 2 tablespoons pepper and 1 tablespoon salt. Heat canola oil in heavy large ovenproof skillet over high heat. Add beef and brown on all sides, about 5 minutes. Transfer skillet to oven and roast beef to desired doneness, about 30 minutes for rare. Transfer beef to platter and let rest 10 minutes.
• Toss arugula and radicchio in medium bowl. Slice beef thinly and divide among 4 plates. Drizzle any juices from platter over beef. Sprinkle with salt. Top with arugula and radicchio. Squeeze lemon over, then drizzle with extra-virgin olive oil and aged vinegar. Sprinkle with salt and pepper. Top with cheese and serve.

MUSTARD-CRUSTED BEEF TENDERLOIN WITH ARUGULA, RED ONION, AND WAX BEAN SALAD

Steps:

• Prepare beef:
• Preheat oven to 425°F.
• Stir together mustards, brown sugar, pepper, and lemon zest.
• Pat beef dry and season generously with salt. Heat oil in a heavy skillet over moderately high heat until just beginning to smoke, then brown beef on all sides, about 2 minutes total.
• Transfer to an oiled shallow baking pan and coat with mustard mixture.
• Roast beef in middle of oven until a thermometer inserted 2 inches into thickest part of meat registers 125°F for medium-rare, 15 to 20 minutes. Transfer to a cutting board and let stand until cool, at least 45 minutes.
• Prepare salad while beef is roasting:
• Chill onion slices in water to cover 30 minutes. Cook beans in boiling salted water until crisp-tender, about 5 minutes. Drain beans in a colander and rinse under cold water to stop cooking, then transfer to a large bowl. Add arugula to beans. Drain onion slices and pat dry.
• Make dressing and toss salad:
• Whisk together vinegar, lemon juice, mustard, and salt and pepper to taste. Add oil in a slow stream, whisking until emulsified.
• Cut beef into thin slices.
• Add onion slices, beef, and enough dressing to arugula and beans to just coat and toss to combine well.

BEEF TENDERLOIN AND ARTICHOKE PURéE ON RYE TOASTS

Steps:

• Puree artichokes in processor until almost smooth. Add mayonnaise, grated Parmesan, lemon juice, tarragon, lemon peel, garlic, nutmeg and cayenne. Process until well blended. Transfer to small bowl. Season with salt and pepper.
• Heat oil in heavy large skillet over medium-high heat. Season steaks with salt and pepper. Add to skillet and cook to desired doneness, about 5 minutes per side for medium-rare. Transfer to plate. Cool. (Artichoke puree and steaks can be made 1 day ahead. Cover separately; chill.)
• Preheat oven to 350°F. Using 1 1/2-inch round cookie cutter, cut 48 rounds from rye bread. Arrange rounds on large baking sheet. Bake until golden brown, about 8 minutes. Cool.
• Spread 1 teaspoon artichoke puree on each rye round (save remaining puree for another use). Top with arugula leaf. Cut each steak across grain into 24 thin strips. Starting at 1 short end, roll up each beef strip. Place atop arugula. Garnish with shaved Parmesan.

FILLET OF BEEF, ARUGULA, AND ARTICHOKE CROSTINI

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 500°F. Pat the fillet dry, season it with salt and pepper, and in a small roasting pan roast it in the middle of the oven for 23 minutes, or until it registers 125°F. on a meat thermometer for rare meat. Transfer the fillet to a cutting board and let it cool. The fillet may be roasted 1 day in advance and kept covered and chilled.
• In a blender purée the artichoke hearts and the garlic with the vinegar, the oil, and salt and pepper to taste and transfer the purée to a bowl. The purée may be made 3 days in advance and kept covered and chilled.
• Spread each slice of toast with some of the artichoke purée, top the purée with some of the arugula, and divide the fillet, sliced very thin, among the crostini. Top the crostini with the Parmesan curls.