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Dinner · 30 min · 2 plates

Steak frites

Hot pan for the steak, hot oven for the potatoes. Herb butter at the end. Mustard at the table.

The sheet · 2 plates · 30 min

easy

Why tonight. Hot pan for the steak, hot oven for the potatoes. Herb butter at the end. Mustard at the table.

What it needs

Nothing confirmed on your shelf yet — this list is the whole ask.

  • beef
  • potato
  • butter
  • garlic
  • parsley

Good if you have them, fine if you do not: dijon.

Method

  1. Dry the steak and salt it, then a screaming pan and no moving it until a crust forms.
  2. Butter, garlic and herbs added at the end and spooned over, never at the start where they burn.
  3. Rest it as long as it cooked. Cut across the grain, always.
  4. Chips fried twice — low first to cook, high second to crisp. One fry gives you neither.

An educational plan from a curated corpus. Not a nutrition, allergen, or doneness guarantee.

Cook or pour it, then edit the shelf if you emptied a bottle or used the last of something.

Why each of these is on the list

What the ingredients are actually doing

beef
Fat and connective tissue decide the method.
potato
Waxy holds its shape, floury falls apart, and almost every potato complaint is the wrong one for the job.
butter
Flavor and body in the same spoonful.
garlic
Burns in seconds and turns the whole dish bitter, so it almost never goes in first.
parsley
Not a garnish, a green note.

Missing one of them? The substitutions are written against those jobs rather than against a chart, so they say what each replacement costs this dish in particular.

Cooks from the same box

If you bought for this, you can already make these

Next

Cook it, then tell the shelf what you used.

The ranking is only as honest as the shelf behind it. Empty the cream, and everything that leaned on cream should stop being offered.

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