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Recipes

Pan-fried sirloin steak with red wine and snail sauce

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This tub-thumpingly French steak dish combines punchy flavours with bags of style - ooh la la.

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Ingredients

  • 1kg/2lb 4oz floury potatoes, such as Maris Piper, peeled and cut into chunks
  • 225g/8oz unsalted butter
  • 150ml/5fl oz double cream
  • 1 tbsp olive oil
  • 4 x 250g/9oz sirloin steaks, at room temperature
  • 4 banana shallots, 2 with skin on and cut in half lengthways, 2 peeled and finely chopped
  • 1 garlic clove, peeled and finely chopped
  • 25g/1oz caster sugar
  • 250ml/9fl oz red wine
  • 175ml/6fl oz veal stock (or chicken stock if not available)
  • 12 cooked braised snails (available from online specialists)
  • 2 tbsp finely chopped fresh tarragon leaves
  • 2 tbsp chopped flatleaf fresh parsley leaves
  • sea salt and freshly ground black pepper