Coffee-roasted beef fillet with sage and wild mushrooms

4 servings

Ingredients

Quantity Ingredient
2 pounds Fillet of beef
(Chateaubriand)
1 teaspoon Coarse salt
1 teaspoon Freshly-ground black pepper
2 tablespoons Extra-virgin olive oil, plus
Extra for garnish
1 tablespoon Finely chopped fresh sage,
Plus 1 tablespoon for sauce
2 tablespoons Finely ground coffee
3 tablespoons Butter
½ Onion, minced
4 Garlic cloves, minced
2 Pasilla chilies, stemmed,
Seeded, and torn into pieces
2 cups Chicken stock
1 Chipotle chile in Adobo
Sauce
1 tablespoon Adobo sauce
1 pounds Shiitake mushrooms, stems
Removed and chopped
1 teaspoon Maple syrup or brown sugar
Fresh sage leaves sauteed in
Butter for garnish

Directions

Tie the fillet with butcher twine at ½-inch intervals. Rub the fillet with salt, pepper, sage, and oil. Spread coffee over a work surface and roll fillet in it to coat. Marinate fillet for 30 minutes.

Heat a skillet over medium high heat and add 1 tablespoon butter. Add onion and garlic and saute until browned. Add the Pasilla chile and saute. Add stock, chipotle, and adobo sauce and simmer, cover, for 10 minutes. Remove from heat and let cool. Transfer ingredients to a blender and puree for 30 seconds. If needed, add enough water to make 2 cups.

In a clean skillet melt remaining butter and add mushrooms and remaining tablespoon of sage and saute, stirring, until lightly browned. Add sauce and scrape the bottom of the skillet with a spoon to deglaze the mushroom juices. Bring the liquid to a boil then simmer for 10 minutes. Add salt, pepper, and maple syrup. If sauce becomes too thick, thin with water.

Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Roast fillet on a roasting rack on a roasting pan for 10 minutes. Reduce oven temperature to 250 degrees and cook the fillet for about 20 minutes more or until the meat registers 125 degrees for medium rare or 135 degrees for medium meat on a meat thermometer. Serve with slices of fillet over cheddar-cheese grits and garnish with oil and sage.

Yield: 4 to 6 servings

CHEF DU JOUR ROBERT DEL GRANDE SHOW #DJ9062

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