Tuesday, April 5, 2011

Cheese Steak

Well we're not from Phili, we've never been there and we don't know anyone there......but we still wanted to make a cheese steak.  Definately not authentic I'm sure but it is damn good! 

We started by roasting a nice head of garlic
Now we turned that into some roasted garlic hummus.  For this we tossed the roasted garlic cloves with a can of chick peas, salt, white pepper, and a quarter cup of extra virgin olive oil


With the spread made we had to make the buns.  We stuck with the no knead bread from "Artisan Bread in Five Minutes A Day"

For the basic buns you just combine:
2 Cups Water
.75 Tablespoons Yeast
.75 Tablespoons Kosher Salt
1 Tablespoon Sugar
1/4 Cup Melted Butter
3.5 Cups Bread Flour
Then toss it into fridge over night, shape into sub bun shapes and let rise for about 45 minutes while you preheat the oven to 350 degrees
And after they baked for half an hour
Now we make a red wine beef broth to give the beef a bath a little later on.  We start by frying up 1 large carrot, 1 rib of celery, 1 large onion, and 3 cloves of garlic
Then I added a couple cups of red wine, a cup of beef stock and a tablespoon of thyme and let it all cook together
Then it was time to puree it all together
Now it's time to concentrate on the beef.  For this we used tri tip
This was a beautiful cut of meat.  Unfortunately we just couldn't cook it whole so we put it in nice little slices
And we grilled them up with a little salt and white pepper
After they were seared real nice on both sides we gave the beautiful slices a nice little bath in the red wine broth
Now to focus on the mushrooms, onions and the peppers.  We used 2 anaheims, 2 poblanos, 2 thai, and five serrano chiles as well as oyster mushrooms and a couple of small onions.
We started sauteeing the onion, then added the peppers and finally the mushrooms.

And for the final component, the cheese sauce.  For this I choose to use Oaxaca Cheese.
We mixed it with 1/4 cup of half and half cream over a double boiler and melted it down

And finally it all comes together.  Basically we have a homemade bun, smothered with roasted garlic hummus, then the red wine bathed beef, then the peppers, onions, and oyster mushrooms, and finally the cheese sauce.  This was the best sandwich any of us had ever had!





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