Steak with Goats Cheese Cream and Apple salad

This is another recipe I managed to find through the stacks of old food magazines my gran keeps in her cupboard in Sweden. Although it looked simple, I just thought the flavours would work well and with a few tweaks of my own, this could be a very nice and simple dish. Perfect for any sort of weather and deliciously healthy. You may think it sounds weird at first but give it a try and let me know what you think in the comments below!

Steak with Goat Cheese Cream, 'Skinny Fries' and an Apple salad

serves: 2

Ingredients

• 2 rump steaks

• 2 tbsp mixed dried herbs

• black pepper, to season

• olive oil, to fry

For the Goats Cheese Cream

• 75g goats cheese ( y favourite is chèvre )

• 1/2 cup greek yoghurt

• 1 clove garlic, minced

• 1/4 lemon, juice and zest

• black pepper, to taste

For the Salad

• 1 apple, diced into cubes

• 4 steamed beetroots

• 1 small red onion, sliced ( or half a normal sized )

• 2 large handfuls rocket

• 1 dessert spoon olive oil

• high quality balsamic vinegar, to drizzle*

To Serve

• 2 parsnips, cut into matchsticks

• drizzle oil

• salt and black pepper, to season

* The one i used was quite thick and sweet but if you don't have this, just add a bit of honey instead

Method

- Start by making the parsnip fries. Preheat the oven to 200 degrees c, fan. Pop the matchsticks onto a lined tray and drizzle over the oil. season and place them in the oven to bake for 1 hour.

- Make the goats cheese cream by simply blending all the ingredients into a blender until smooth and creamy. Remove to a bowl and pop it in the fridge.

- Next, prepare the salad ingredients then pop it all in a bowl and stir everything together. Give the salad a good drizzle of balsamic vinegar.

- Finally, heat the oil in a large frying pan. Once hot, add the steaks and cook for a few minutes of each side, depending on how rare you like them.

- Serve the steaks with a heap of the salad, the fries and a dollop of the cream.

I hope you enjoy the flavours of this dish as much as I did :)