Bacon Wrapped Beef Tenderloin Steaks with Spinach and Cheese Cakes

Name: Bacon Wrapped Beef Tenderloin Steaks with Spinach and Cheese Cakes
Prep time: 40 min
Cook time: 40 min
Total time: 40 min
Yield: 4
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 4 slices thin slices bacon, look for packaged bacon marked Center Cut in packaged meats case; 118 milliliters beef stock, available on soup aisle; 4 beef tenderloin steaks, 1 1/2 inches thick; 118 milliliters Italian bread crumbs, 3 handfuls; 2 Tbsps butter, divided; 4 servings Coarse salt and cracked black pepper, season to your tastes; 4 servings Coarse salt and freshly ground pepper; 118 milliliters dry red wine; 1 egg, beaten; 1 Tbsp all-purpose flour; 2 Tbsps chopped or snipped fresh chives; 2 packages frozen chopped spinach, 10 ounces each; 0 teaspoons freshly grated nutmeg, eyeball it; 4 servings Extra-virgin oil, for drizzling; 3 Tbsps extra-virgin olive oil, 1 for onion, 2 tablespoons to fry cakes; 1 small onion, chopped; 79 milliliters grated Parmigiano-Reggiano, 2 handfuls; 4 smalls Roma tomatoes

You can never have too many main course recipes, so give Bacon Wrapped Beef Tenderloin Steaks with Spinach and Cheese Cakes a try. This recipe makes 4 servings with 1790 calories, 131g of protein, and 115g of fat each. This recipe covers 76% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. Head to the store and pick up butter, nutmeg, bread crumbs, and a few other things to make it today. To use up the coarse salt you could follow this main course with the Healthy Raw Chocolate Pudding as a dessert. It will be a hit at your valentin day event. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes approximately 40 minutes.

Instructions

Defrost spinach in microwave. Wring spinach dry by nesting in kitchen towel and twisting towel over garbage bowl or sink until spinach has given off all of its liquid.

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Place spinach in a medium mixing bowl.

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Spinach

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Heat a nonstick skillet over medium heat, add oil and onion and saute the onion until soft, 5 minutes.

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Onion

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Frying Pan

Add onion to spinach in bowl and return pan to stove top. Turn off heat.

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Spinach

Onion

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Add remaining ingredients to spinach: bread crumbs, cheese, egg, nutmeg, salt and pepper.

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Breadcrumbs

Spinach

Cheese

Nutmeg

Egg

Combine mixture with a fork, then form into 3-inch patties. Set aside.

Line bacon up on meat-safe cutting board a few inches apart. Preheat a second skillet over high heat. Reheat the spinach cakes skillet over medium high heat. Season steaks with salt and pepper and set on bacon slices in the center of each slice. Wrap bacon over steaks.

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Place seam side down in pan and cook 2 minutes on each side.

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Add 2 tablespoons oil to spinach cakes pan and set cakes in to cook. Work in 2 batches if necessary. Cook cakes 3 minutes on each side.

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Spinach

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Reduce heat to medium under steaks after the first 2 minutes on each side. Cook meat another 6 to 10 minutes, turning occasionally, for medium rare to medium well doneness.

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Meat

Remove meat from the pan and let it rest.

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Meat

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Add 1 tablespoon of the butter and flour and cook together 1 minute.

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Butter

All Purpose Flour

Whisk in wine and deglaze pan.

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Wine

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Whisk in broth and thicken sauce 1 minute.

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Add remaining tablespoon butter and remove skillet from heat.

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Quarter tomatoes lengthwise.

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Tomato

To serve, set the spinach cakes and steaks beside each other on 2/3 of serving plates and pour sauce evenly over steaks. Scatter a quartered tomato next to spinach cakes on each plate.

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Spinach

Steak

Tomato

Sauce

Drizzle tomatoes with oil, season with salt and pepper and top with chopped chives.

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Salt And Pepper

Tomato

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Serve plates immediately.

Defrost spinach in microwave. Wring spinach dry by nesting in kitchen towel and twisting towel over garbage bowl or sink until spinach has given off all of its liquid.

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Spinach

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Kitchen Towels

Microwave

Bowl

Place spinach in a medium mixing bowl.

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Spinach

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Mixing Bowl

Heat a nonstick skillet over medium heat, add oil and onion and saute the onion until soft, 5 minutes.

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Onion

Cooking Oil

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Frying Pan

Add onion to spinach in bowl and return pan to stove top. Turn off heat.

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Spinach

Onion

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Stove

Bowl

Frying Pan

Add remaining ingredients to spinach: bread crumbs, cheese, egg, nutmeg, salt and pepper.

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Salt And Pepper

Breadcrumbs

Spinach

Cheese

Nutmeg

Egg

Combine mixture with a fork, then form into 3-inch patties. Set aside.

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Salt And Pepper

Bacon

Spinach

Steak

Meat

Wrap

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Cutting Board

Frying Pan

Place seam side down in pan and cook 2 minutes on each side.

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Frying Pan

Add 2 tablespoons oil to spinach cakes pan and set cakes in to cook. Work in 2 batches if necessary. Cook cakes 3 minutes on each side.

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Spinach

Cooking Oil

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Frying Pan

Reduce heat to medium under steaks after the first 2 minutes on each side. Cook meat another 6 to 10 minutes, turning occasionally, for medium rare to medium well doneness.

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Steak

Meat

Remove meat from the pan and let it rest.

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Meat

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Frying Pan

Add 1 tablespoon of the butter and flour and cook together 1 minute.

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Butter

All Purpose Flour

Whisk in wine and deglaze pan.

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Wine

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Whisk

Frying Pan

Whisk in broth and thicken sauce 1 minute.

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Broth

Sauce

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Whisk

Add remaining tablespoon butter and remove skillet from heat.

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Butter

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Frying Pan

Quarter tomatoes lengthwise.

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Tomato

To serve, set the spinach cakes and steaks beside each other on 2/3 of serving plates and pour sauce evenly over steaks. Scatter a quartered tomato next to spinach cakes on each plate.

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Spinach

Steak

Tomato

Sauce

Drizzle tomatoes with oil, season with salt and pepper and top with chopped chives.

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Salt And Pepper

Tomato

Chives

Cooking Oil

Serve plates immediately.

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Servings:

4slices

thin slices bacon, look for packaged bacon marked "Center Cut" in packaged meats case 118milliliters

beef stock, available on soup aisle 4

beef tenderloin steaks, 1 1/2 inches thick 118milliliters

Italian bread crumbs, 3 handfuls 2Tbsps

butter, divided 4servings

Coarse salt and cracked black pepper, season to your tastes 4servings

Coarse salt and freshly ground pepper 118milliliters

dry red wine 1

egg, beaten 1Tbsp

all-purpose flour 2Tbsps

chopped or snipped fresh chives 2packages

frozen chopped spinach, 10 ounces each 0teaspoons

freshly grated nutmeg, eyeball it 4servings

Extra-virgin oil, for drizzling 3Tbsps

extra-virgin olive oil, 1 for onion, 2 tablespoons to fry cakes 1small

onion, chopped 79milliliters

grated Parmigiano-Reggiano, 2 handfuls 4smalls

Roma tomatoes

Recommended wine: Merlot, Cabernet Sauvignon, Pinot Noir

Merlot, Cabernet Sauvignon, and Pinot Noir are my top picks for Steak. After all, beef and red wine are a classic combination. Generally, leaner steaks go well with light or medium-bodied reds, such as pinot noir or merlot, while fattier steaks can handle a bold red, such as cabernet sauvingnon. You could try Rabble Merlot. Reviewers quite like it with a 4.1 out of 5 star rating and a price of about 20 dollars per bottle.