Steak Diane
Steak Diane is a dish made from Pan fried beef steaks served with flambéed pan juices. It is named after the Roman goddess of the hunt “Diana” and has been used for various game-related foods like our dish today. This dish according to experts have been invented roughly around the mid-20th century in New York since tableside flambéed dishes was a fad during those times.
Like Steak au poivre this dish is made with either a thin cut steak or pounded to lessen cooking times. Sauces is then made with pan juices and a variety of ingredients like butter, mushrooms, mustard, shallots, truffles, cream, beef stock, Steak Sauce and/or Worcestershire sauce. It is completed being flambéed with brandy or Madeira.
It is a very simple dish and it’s very easy to prepare, a very nice thing to serve on a busy weekday
- 4 pcs sirloin or tenderloin steaks
- 3 pcs shallots, thinly sliced
- 8 pcs farmers brown mushrooms, sliced
- 2 cloves garlic, minced
- 2 tbsp Worcestershire sauce
- 1 tbsp Dijon mustard
- ⅓ cup brandy
- 1 cup cream
- chopped parsley, to garnish
- 2 tbsp butter
- olive oil
- freshly ground black pepper
- salt
- Using a meat mallet, flatten steaks to make it thinner. Season it with salt and freshly ground black pepper.
- Heat up a large heavy skillet, add olive oil then cook steaks for 2 minutes on each side on high heat. Remove from pan to let it rest.
- Using the same skillet add more olive oil, sauté shallots cook for two minutes in medium heat.
- Add the mushrooms, butter and garlic. Cook for two minutes.
- Bring the heat to high then add the Worcestershire sauce and Dijon mustard then pour the brandy, tilt a bit to ignite but be careful.
- Add the cream then any drippings from the steak. Gently cook until sauce thickens using low heat.
- Add the steaks back and cook for 2 more minutes.
- Place on serving platters, pour sauce on top then garnish with chopped parsley and freshly ground black pepper.
I haven’t had — or made! — this dish in years. We’re talking decades. It’s such a wonderful classic, though — I gotta make this again. Yours looks like perfection. Thanks for the inspiration!
I love steak Diane, and I always order it at Cheesecake Factory, but have not made myself…yours look delicious Raymund! Thanks for the recipe and the story behind it.
I hope you are having a great week 🙂
It’s been years and years since I made Steak Diane! I love it! Yours looks like a steak diane should look – delicious! Thanks for the reminder that I need to eat this!
My girl would love this but perhaps I would have to leave out the Worcestershire sauce – some brands are not gluten-free.
I have never heard of this steak till now. It looks and sounds beyond delish with its creamy sauce. Something to make for my family soon.