Bavette Steak with a Five Pepper Cream Sauce

Make the potatoes sayoyard  Recipe   and put in the oven. Use a pestle and mortar to grind up the peppers fairly roughly. Pat the ground pepper into both sides of the steaks and allow to absorb the flavour for an hour or so. Trim the brocolli shoots and put in a steamer ready to go.

As soon as the potatoes seem to be getting near to being cooked, start the steamer with the brocolli and salt the steaks.

Put a thick bottomed frying pan over a fairly high heat, when hot melt a tablespoonful of butter in the pan, add the steak and cook for a minute each side, drop the heat and cook for a further two minutes per side. Put the steaks to one side a in a warm pan.

If used add the the calvados/armagnac to the pan and stir, add cream and stir in until you have a nice sauce. Season with salt. Put steaks on to serving dishes, spoon over some sauce, add brocolli and potatoes as a side  Picture   and serve  Zoom  .