Try Sake Steak for a Quick Prepare Ahead Meal

Ingredients

for the steak

• 10 oz fillet steaks (2 x 5oz steaks)
  
• 1 cup basmati rice
• 2  cardamom pods
• 1 ½ tablespoons chopped cilantro

for the marinade

• 1 teaspoon english mustard
• 2 tablespoons worcestershire sauce
• 1 tablespoon soy sauce
• 1 tablespoon garlic flavored oil (or chilli oil)

for the sauce

• ¼ cup sake
• 1 tablespoon soy sauce
• ½ teaspoon thai fish sauce (nam pla) (or brown rice vinegar)
• 1 teaspoon worcestershire sauce
• 1 teaspoon english mustard

Instructions

1. In a freezer bag, combine the marinade ingredients, and add the steaks. Leave to marinate for a few hours or leave in the fridge for up to two days. I nearly always have a bag of marinating meat on the go in my fridge.
2. Let the steaks come to room temperature before you start cooking, and you can put the rice on at the same time. Follow packet instructions for the rice, or rice-cooker handbook or just put the rice in a pan, bruise the cardamom pods and chuck them in too, and put double the volume of water that you have rice. Bring to the boil, then turn down to the lowest you possibly can, clamp on a lid and leave till the rice has absorbed the water and is cooked, about 15 minutes. I never salt the rice here.
3. Heat a ridged griddle and then give the steaks, out of their marinade, 2 minutes a side or so, and remove the steaks, double-wrapping them in foil parcels. Let them rest for 10 minutes on a wooden board or a pile of newspapers.
4. Bring the sake to a boil in a tiny little saucepan, like one you might melt butter in, to let the alcohol taste evaporate. Take the pan off the heat and add the other sauce ingredients. Unwrap the steaks, removing them to a wooden board for carving as you do so, and pour the red juices gathered in the foil parcels into the pan of sauce. Arrange some freshly boiled rice on two plates or one large one, and slice the fillet steaks into thin diagonal slices. Lay the carved steak on top of the rice and spoon over the sauce, letting it gloss the meat and drip here and there over the rice. Scatter the coriander on top.

Additional information - for gluten free use gluten free Dijon mustard instead of English mustard and tamari instead of soy sauce. Check also that the Worcestershire sauce is suitable as some brands contain malt vinegar (made with barley).