This recipe jazzes up the regular piece of steak with a garlic confit herb butter. This butter is packed with garlic (15 cloves to be exact), a full bunch of parsley, capers that give it a slight tang and just a touch of that beautiful garlic confit olive oil. After you’ve made steak this way, you won’t be making it any other way again!

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Garlic Confit Herb Butter Steak

Your search for the perfect steak ends here. This recipe has got you covered from everything you need to know about preparing and cooking a steak to how to spice it up with a garlic butter that has a little edge. Learning how to cook a steak to perfection is a great skill to have in the kitchen. While the thought of it can be a little daunting and something you feel should be left to professional chefs, you will be surprised at just how easy it is! All you need to do is follow my simple steps and guideline and you will be impressing yourself and guests with a delicious steak dinner.

How to cook the perfect steak

If you follow my rules when cooking steak, I promise you that you will be making the perfect steak every single time!

Room temperature – Bring your steak to room temperature before cooking it. Take it out of the fridge at least 1 hour prior to cooking. By bringing it to room temperature, your steak will cook more evenly and result in a more juicy and tender steak.

Heavily season – Heavily season your steak with lots of salt and pepper. You may think that it looks like a lot of salt but this not only flavour your steak but it will also help make the steak more tender. You also lose lots of the seasoning once the steak hits the pan. The black pepper will contribute to a beautiful crust.

Hot, hot hot – Use a smoking hot cast iron pan when cooking your steak! You want to see a haze coming from the pan before placing your steak onto it. A cast iron pan is best for when cooking steak but you can use also use a non-stick. The hotter the pan, the better your steak’s sear and crust will be.

Don’t touch it – Make sure you do not touch or move the steak when you lay it into the pan as this will disrupt the searing process.

Aromatics – These include fresh herbs such as rosemary and thyme and raw garlic. This will beautifully flavour your steak and the butter sauce that is drizzled onto it after it has rested.

Baste that steak – Baste the steak with butter to give it lots of flavour and help make it juicy.

Timing – Timing is so important when it comes to cooking the perfect steak and as every steak is different when it comes to thickness and weight this will slightly alter every time. Once you have cooked a few steaks, you will be able to tell just by looking at it how long the steak needs to cook for. You will also be able to train yourself how to tell if it’s ready by giving it a little touch when its cooking in the pan. For a medium rare steak, you want it to be soft touch with a slight bounce. It will feel exactly how the bottom of your thumb feels when touching it. Make sure you have a timer on hand when cooking the steak.

Rest – I know how difficult it can be to not cut into a beautiful piece of steak as soon as it comes off the pan but this step is so important as it leaves you with a juicer steak! I like to rest mine from 5 – 10 minutes.

Flavour – Flavour the steak with a jazzed up butter, pan fried mushrooms or a delicious sauce and whatever you do, don’t toss away those lovely buttery juices from the pan. Drizzle it over the steak while it’s resting.

High quality – If possible, always use a high quality steak and butter such as Westgold butter. As this recipe has very minimal ingredients, you will really taste the difference when using high quality.

Garlic confit herb butter

Garlic butter but make it fancy! This butter uses 15 cloves of garlic. Yes, you read that correctly! However, when cooking garlic confit style, it softens that pungent garlic flavour you are more familiar with which means you can double, triple or even quadruple (for the real garlic girls) the amount of garlic. This butter is also full of fresh herbs and some capers to give it a little tang!

Check out all my tips on how to make and store garlic confit.

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This recipe is sponsored by Westgold butter.