Top Drawer Dinner

Name: Top Drawer Dinner
Prep time: 40 min
Cook time: 40 min
Total time: 40 min
Yield: 4
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 4 servings Freshly ground black pepper; 1 pinch Pinch cayenne pepper; 2 ribs celery, from the heart, finely chopped; 170 grams bricks cream cheese; 3 boxes frozen spinach, defrosted; 59 milliliters ketchup; 1 lemon zested and 1/2 lemon juiced; 4 lettuce; 237 milliliters all-in-one pancake mix; 158 milliliters grated Parmesan, 2 rounded handfuls; 2 Tbsps chopped parsley leaves; 1 teaspoon coarse black pepper; 59 milliliters hot pepper sauce, eyeball it (recommended: Tabasco); 4 servings Salt; 4 servings Salt and pepper; 7 to 8 scallions, cleaned, dried and trimmed of roots, chopped; 454 grams to medium peeled, deveined and cooked shrimp, tails removed; 2 larges T-bone steaks, about 3 pounds, 1 3/4-inch thick each; 4 slices white toast, buttered and cut from corner to corner; 4 servings Vegetable oil, for drizzling; 4 servings Vegetable oil, for frying; 118 milliliters water; 1 smalls white onion, finely chopped; 3 Tbsps Worcestershire sauce

Top Drawer Dinner might be just the main course you are searching for. This recipe covers 63% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. One portion of this dish contains roughly 81g of protein, 66g of fat, and a total of 1086 calories. This recipe serves 4. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes around 40 minutes. Head to the store and pick up spinach, worcestershire sauce, coarse pepper, and a few other things to make it today. To use up the lemon zest you could follow this main course with the Orange Marmalade Cookies with Orange Zest Icing as a dessert.

Instructions

Preheat a large griddle pan or 14-inch skillet over high heat.

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Frying Pan

Combine hot pepper sauce, ketchup, lemon zest and juice, celery and parsley in a small bowl.

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Hot Sauce

Lemon Zest

Ketchup

Parsley

Celery

Juice

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Bowl

Add shrimp and coat evenly. Chill 20 minutes, then line 4 cocktail glasses or small dishes with leaf lettuce and top each with 1/4 of chilled shrimp.

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Cocktail

Lettuce

Shrimp

Place spinach in microwave to defrost.

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Spinach

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Microwave

Place boxes on a dish to defrost the spinach because it will leek. While spinach defrosts, place cream cheese and onions in a medium sauce pot over low heat. While cream cheese is melting and spinach is defrosting, continue forward with meal prep then return to spinach. When the cream cheese melts, add Parmesan and black pepper to the cheese.

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Black Pepper

Cream Cheese

Parmesan

Spinach

Cheese

Onion

Sauce

Leek

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Pot

Drain spinach in clean kitchen towel, wringing it out until dry. Stir spinach into sauce, season with a pinch of salt, to taste, if necessary and let the spinach sit over lowest heat possible 10 minutes, stirring occasionally.

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Spinach

Sauce

Salt

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Kitchen Towels

Drizzle the steaks with oil and add to screaming hot pan. Cook 8 minutes on each side for medium doneness. After you flip the steak, baste it with Worcestershire sauce and season with salt and pepper. When you remove steak to cutting board or serving platter, baste opposite side and season it up.

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Worcestershire Sauce

Salt And Pepper

Steak

Cooking Oil

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Cutting Board

Frying Pan

Let meat rest a few minutes before you cut into it to let the juices redistribute.

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Meat

Cut meat from bones and portion into 4 servings. Push toast down in toaster, butter it and cut from corner to corner.

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Butter

Toast

Meat

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Toaster

Fill a medium saucepan with 2 to 3 inches of vegetable oil and heat to medium-high heat. Arrange a paper towel lined plate on the counter to place the fritters on when they come out of the hot oil.

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Cooking Oil

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Paper Towels

Sauce Pan

In a bowl, make the batter by combining the all-in-one pancake mix with the water (the batter will be on the thick side).

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Pancake Mix

Water

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Bowl

Add the chopped green onions and season with the cayenne, salt, and pepper. When the oil is ready for frying, drop spoonfuls of the batter into the oil and fry on all sides until golden brown and puffy. This should take no more than 3 to 4 minutes.

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Green Onions