Ostrich Steaks With Mushroom Vanilla Sauce And Wild Rice With As Recipes

OSTRICH STEAKS WITH MUSHROOM VANILLA SAUCE AND WILD RICE WITH AS

Steps:

• Place pumpkin seeds, cinnamon and peppercorns in a shallow baking pan and bake in a preheated 350-degree oven until the pumpkin seeds release their oils and turn light brown.
• Remove and grind in a food processor or blender with remaining rub ingredients. Grind to a fine powder.
• Rub the mixture onto steaks and refrigerate 2 to 4 hours.
• Approximately thirty minutes before serving, melt butter in a pan. Add shallots, garlic and sliced mushrooms and stir over medium heat until shallots and mushrooms soften about 10 minutes. Add water, stock and vanilla bean and bring to a boil over high heat. Continue to boil the mixture until it has reduced slightly, about 1/2 - 3/4 of a cup. Mix a little water with cornflour add to sauce until it thickens, remove the vanilla bean. Split bean in half and scrape insides into the sauce.
• While sauce is reducing, Heat grill or pan to medium high heat. Add steaks, Grill on both sides, I had very thick steaks so I cut them in half to make cooking time quick. I only cooked them a few min's per side. Ostrich meat is very low in fat and toughens quickly and is best cooked no longer than necessary.
• Finally add cream to sauce and stir over heat until sauce is warm. Serve immediately over steaks.
• Method for Wild Rice with Asparagus Tips.
• Asparagus is not the cheapest vegetable, and it is quite a waste to just use the tips. I do this for presentation if I am just cooking this for my family, I chop the useable part of the stems and use that as well as the tips. If you do this you will not need as many grams I would say 250-300g max. Also a tip if making for a dinner party or special occassion and you want to just use the tips so it looks nicer, I plan on making asparagus soup or quiche or any recipe that you can use asparagus inches So I use the stems the next day so as not to just waste them.
• Fill saucepan with enough water to boil rice in, add chicken stock and bring to boil. Add rice and boil until tender, drain.
• Boil, steam or microwave asparagus until just tender, stir asparagus and parsley into rice.
• To Serve: Place steaks on plates pour sauce over the top, serve rice on the side sprinkle a little parmesan cheese over rice.

OSTRICH STEAKS WITH PRAWNS AND A ROASTED GARLIC SAUCE

Steps:

• Place cloves of garlic in a roasting pan, still in skin and roast in 200c oven until browned and soft. (about 10-15 Min's).
• Remove and set aside to cool.
• Mushrooms.
• In a pan, melt butter, add garlic and mushrooms cook a few minutes to brown mushrooms, add wine and cook until liquid has evaporated, stir in parsley and thyme.
• Mushrooms can be made ahead and reheated in the microwave.
• Sauce.
• Heat a small amount of oil in pan, add onion and cook until soft. Add wine and stock, stir to dissolve stock.
• Squeeze each garlic clove into sauce, they will be the consistency of a puree. (I prefer to do this, but I think you can buy already prepared roast garlic puree, not sure if it tastes the same.).
• Add cream and pepper, just before serving mix a little water with cornflour and add to sauce. This is only meant to thicken slightly it is not supposed to be a really thick sauce.
• Serve over Ostrich.
• Ostrich Steaks.
• BBQ, grill or pan fry steaks until desired doneness, ostrich is a very lean meat and toughens when overcooked. It is better cooked medium rare, but if you prefer your meat a little more done do not cook more than absolutely necessary as it will be like eating leather.
• While the steaks are cooking heat some oil in a separate pan and cook prawns until pink and cooked through.
• To serve: Spoon mushrooms onto plate to form a base, place steaks on top and then top with prawns and drizzle with sauce.
• I topped mine with asparagus spears as well, if you want to make these they are very easy.
• I buy baby asparagus and use 5 spears per roll, wrap these with a piece of bacon and place in an oven proof dish drizzle with olive oil, add a couple of garlic cloves to pan and cook in 180c oven until bacon is cooked and asparagus tender, about 10-15 Min's.