• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Skip to footer

Club Narwhal

  • Home
  • About
  • Recipes
    • Appetizers & Sides
    • Breakfast & Brunch
    • Main Dish
    • Meat
    • Dessert
    • Ice Cream
    • Cookies
  • Kitchen Gadgets
  • Contact
You are here: Home / Recipes / Pan Fried Steak With Chimichurri Sauce
**Disclosure: As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.

Pan Fried Steak With Chimichurri Sauce

May 20, 2015 by Amy Lee Scott Leave a Comment

Friends! I hope you had the loveliest long weekend, which was extra long for me since I took Friday off, too (huzzah). We did so much nursery-ing and I can’t wait to share some of our projects with you in a little bit. Many of said projects involved using my sewing machine, which is always a scary endeavor, but I feel like I can finally thread the darn thing without looking at my manual. That’s success, right?
We also celebrated our fifth wedding anniversary in style by making tapas. Tapas are perhaps my favorite category of food, mostly because it includes patatas bravas. As I learned time and again in Barcelona, you can never ever go wrong with patatas bravas. Tapas also hold a special place in my heart because our wedding luncheon (and subsequent wedding cake/flan smashing in Warren’s face) took place at Jaleo, a delicious small plates restaurant in Arlington, Virginia. Memories.

Steak with Chimichurri and Patatas Bravas | Tapas Night via Club Narwhal

Obviously, the only thing that makes patatas bravas even more glorious is if you accompany that small plate with another small plate of perfectly crusted sirloin doused in the beauty that is chimichurri sauce.

While I have eaten my weight of this lovely Argentinian sauce at restaurants, I have never made it at home. So when my bestie told me that a certain chimichurri changed her life in all ways for the better, I had to jump on that.

And, boy, am I glad I did.

 Steak with Chimichurri | Tapas Night via Club Narwhal

Chimichurri tastes like summer and ocean breezes and taco shacks. In short, it is perfection. I like to squeeze a little lemon on anything with chimichurri to add another layer of bright goodness. You can marinate your meat (and use whatever meat you like to eat) in this sauce but since I knew the buttery pan-fried steaks would be juicy enough, we skipped that step.

And, guys, I know you will call Red Meat Blasphemy when you read how I pan fry steak these days, but Kenji from Serious Eats knows his stuff. I trust him with my steaks, which is to say: I trust him with my life, and I have never been led astray.

Anyway, if Kenji’s method freaks you out, just cook steaks your favorite way and top with chimichurri. You’ll be just fine, promise.

I’ll share our favorite patatas bravas recipe in a little bit so today let’s just focus on the glory that is meat.

I ate these crostini-style, with a slice of baguette slathered with butter and topped with steak and chimichurri and a spritz of lemon juice. I might never eat steak another way again (bald faced lie, because I love steak in all its iterations)–but, crostini-style is one fine way to consume a steak, if I do say so myself.

Pan Fried Steak With Chimichurri Sauce

Pan Fried Steak With Chimichurri Sauce
Print Recipe

Pan Fried Steak With Chimichurri Sauce

Prep Time15 mins
Cook Time30 mins
Total Time45 mins
Servings: 3 people

Ingredients

  • 1/4 cup red wine vinegar
  • 1/2 teaspoon kosher salt
  • 3 garlic cloves, minced
  • 1/4 small yellow onion, diced
  • 1 jalapeno, seeded and diced
  • 1 cup fresh cilantro, chopped
  • 1/2 cup fresh Italian (flat-leaf) parsley, chopped
  • 1/8 cup fresh oregano, chopped
  • 1/2 cup extra-virgin olive oil
  • 1/2 teaspoon red pepper flakes (optional, for an extra kick)
  • zest from 1/4 lemon
  • 4 (4-6 oz.) sirloin steaks, about 3/4-inch thick
  • kosher salt and fresh cracked pepper
  • butter, to put on steak while resting
  • lemon wedges for serving
  • crusty bread, sliced

Instructions

  • To prepare the chimichurri, combine vinegar, salt, garlic, onion, and jalapeno in a medium bowl. Add chopped cilantro, parsley, oregano, olive oil, red pepper flakes (if you wish), and lemon zest. Let sauce sit and marinate for 10-15 minutes while you cook the steak. To speed things up, you can blend half of the chimichurri ingredients and then stir in the remaining half to give it more texture (or just blend the whole thing–it tastes fab no matter what).
  • Sprinkle both sides of steak with kosher salt and freshly cracked pepper. Put about a tablespoon of olive oil in a heavy, non-stick skillet (or cast iron pan). Heat over high heat. When the skillet is smoking hot, put on steaks.
  • Flip steaks every 30 seconds for about 4 minutes (this will get you in the ball park of medium/medium-well), until a gorgeous brown crust forms (yes, this goes against everything you ever heard about cooking steaks, but after reading Kenji’s brilliant Serious Eats piece and cooking with this method several times, I am totally converted).
  • Remove steaks to a plate, slice a thin pat of butter over each steak and cover plate with foil. Let meat rest for 10 minutes. Slice against the grain and serve with chimichurri sauce, lemon wedges, and sliced crusty bread. And patatas bravas, of course and always (recipe forthcoming).

Filed Under: Main Dish, Meat, Recipes

Previous Post: « Carrot Cake Quick Bread With Cream Cheese Glaze
Next Post: Pan Fried Goat Cheese And Strawberry Salad With Poppy Seed Dressing »

Reader Interactions

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Primary Sidebar

About Me

Amy Lee Scott Profile

Amy Lee Scott

Hey, lovely! My name is Amy and I’m a writer with a severe case of wanderlust. Join me as I whip up delicious dishes and dream about transatlantic flights.

Read more

Recent Posts

best baking sheet

Best Baking And Cookie Sheet: The Ultimate Guide For Amateur Bakers

Clean Dishes Quickly And Efficiently With The Best Dish Soap

Clean Dishes Quickly And Efficiently With The Best Dish Soap

Cake Batter Truffle Ice Cream 1

Cake Batter Truffle Ice Cream

carnitas 683x1024

Easy Slow Cooker Carnitas

Arepas 1 683x1024

Arepas With Guasacaca

Cuban Pork Sliced Club Narwhal

Cuban Pork Roast

Chocolate Strawberry Donuts 9

Baked Dark Chocolate Strawberry Donuts

Pretzel Dogs Stuffed with Cheesy Pace Salsa Baked

Pretzel Dogs Stuffed With Cheesy Pace® Picante Sauce

Pumpkin Bread Ice Cream Club Narwhal 2

Pumpkin Bread Ice Cream With Candied Pecans

One Dough Three Ways with Reynolds Parchment Paper Sheets

The Best Sugar Cookies | One Dough Three Ways!

Work With Me

Interested in collaborating? Me, too! Shoot me an email at [email protected] and let’s get started!

Footer

WE’RE AN AFFILIATE!

clubnarwhalblog.com is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to Amazon.com.

As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases.

Additionally, clubnarwhalblog.com participates in various other affiliate programs, and we sometimes get a commission through purchases made through our links.

Amazon and the Amazon logo are trademarks of Amazon.com, Inc., or its affiliates.

We do not specifically market to children under 13.

DISCLAIMER

All information on this website is intended for entertainment and educational purposes only. It is not a replacement or substitute for professional medical advice and/or treatment. Consult with your own doctor for information and advice on your specific questions.

All wallpapers and backgrounds found here are believed to be in the “public domain”. Most of the images displayed are of unknown origin. We do not intend to infringe any legitimate intellectual right, artistic rights or copyright. If you are the rightful owner of any of the pictures/wallpapers posted here, and you do not want it to be displayed or if you require a suitable credit, then please CONTACT US and we will immediately do whatever is needed either for the image to be removed or provide credit where it is due.

All the content of this site are do not gain any financial benefit from the downloads of any images/wallpaper.

Made with by Amy Lee Scott | © Copyright 2019 | Home | Privacy & Policy | Disclaimer | Contact Us