Bitoque - Portuguese Steak with Beer Sauce

Bitoque (pronounced bee-tok) is a traditional quintessential Portuguese dish,

its name comes from being cooked in wood burning ovens in the oil mills. Good in

combination with red wine, beer sauce that I am going to also provide the

ingredients and directions on how to do, rice,

french fries and a salad.

Ingredients

sirloin steaks

garlic

olive oil q.b. (quanto basta – ‘enough’)

medium fat milk

beer

mustard

flour

eggs

Directions

1. Season the steaks with sliced garlic and salt.

2. In a frying pan, bring the steaks to the boil in abundant olive oil (to make

the sauce later) and let it fry. Season with salt only when you are frying

them. Remove and set aside in a dish covered with aluminum foil to keep them

warm.

3. In a low heat add to the sauce of the steaks, a little more butter or

margarine and let it melt. Then add the milk and let it boil a little.

4. Then add the beer, the mustard and the flour dissolved in a little water or

milk and stir it well. Add to this sauce the sauce that was formed in the

dish of the steaks. Add a little pepper, and stir until it always thickens

over a low heat. Rectify the seasonings.

5. When the sauce is ready, place the reserved steaks again in the skillet for a

few more minutes.

6. Fry the eggs (use a non-stick frying pan that doesn’t require any fat) and

season the egg white with salt and the yolk with black pepper.

7. Place the steaks with the sauce and the egg on top in clay bowls and serve

with french fries, white rice and salad.