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Date Night: Restaurant Style Steak Dinner with Creamed Spinach

January 26, 2017 by 918 Plate 12 Comments

Impress your love with a restaurant style steak dinner with creamed spinach for a classy at-home date night!

Impress your love with a restaurant-style steak dinner with creamed spinach for a classy at-home date night!

This recipe is almost not even mine. My dear husband actually likes to do the steak part, and so it was not very much work for me at all! Bonus: it’s so fast, yet still fancy!

We learned about how restaurants cook steaks about four years ago. The secret is to give the outside a good sear and then finish the middle in the oven. It’s done in less than five minutes, depending on how you like your steak. We eat them pretty red at home, and they’re sooo good that way! Red meat isn’t meant to be brown. ? Since then, we’ve made them countless times. In college, Justin charged all his friends $10 and fed 12 people steaks one Saturday for lunch!

Impress your love with a restaurant-style steak dinner with creamed spinach for a classy at-home date night!

Steaks are usually a celebratory food in our home. We actually had a morning wedding and planned to cook dinner together for our first act as a married couple that night…we made these steaks. The ones in the photo were to celebrate the start of another semester at Justin’s school, and usher in the new year!

This is also nearly a one-pan dinner! You might also want to include another side, like potatoes (or wine!). All you need to do is prep the butter a little bit beforehand, and date night dinner’s ready to go in less than 20 minutes.

Impress your love with a restaurant-style steak dinner with creamed spinach for a classy at-home date night!

#enJOY and impress your date with this great and fast recipe! Let me know if you’ve ever made restaurant-style steak at home.

xxHillary

Impress your love with a restaurant-style steak dinner with creamed spinach for a classy at-home date night!
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Date Night: Restaurant-Style Steak Dinner with Creamed Spinach

Course Entree
Prep Time 5 minutes
Cook Time 15 minutes
Total Time 20 minutes
Servings 2
Author 918 Plate

Ingredients

  • Steaks:
  • 2 rib eye steaks about 1 inch thick
  • Kosher salt
  • black pepper
  • 1 T. safflower oil
  • .
  • Compound Butter:
  • 5 T. butter
  • 2 cloves garlic
  • 2 T. curly parsley
  • 1/8 t. dried rosemary
  • 1 T. sage
  • .
  • Spinach:
  • 1 clove garlic
  • 1/2 C. milk
  • 2 T. flour
  • 1 C. sliced mushrooms
  • 3-4 C. packed baby spinach

Instructions

  1. Preheat oven to 425 degrees Fahrenheit.
  2. Soften butter and combine minced garlic, chopped curly parsley, sage and rosemary. When combined, roll in plastic wrap to make a small log and refrigerate.
  3. Heavily salt and pepper each side of both steaks.
  4. Heat cast iron pan to medium high heat and add in 1 T. high-heat oil.
  5. One steak at a time, sear first side for 2.5 minutes.
  6. Flip steak and sear for 1 minute.
  7. Top steak with a pat of compound butter.
  8. Place entire pan into the oven for 2-5 minutes, until center is done to desired wellness. (2 for rare-medium rare)
  9. Remove and baste steak with melted butter runoff before removing and placing on a plate to rest.
  10. Prepare the other steak according to the same directions.
  11. When both steaks are cooked, return the pan to the stovetop on low. Saute clove of garlic and mushrooms until starting the cook.
  12. Add spinach on top of the mixture and let it wilt down, tossing occasionally.
  13. Sprinkle flour in the pan, and then stir in milk. When sauce thickens, remove and serve.
Impress your love with a restaurant-style steak dinner with creamed spinach for a classy at-home date night!

Filed Under: Entree Tagged With: beef, butter, meat, one pan, parsley, sage, steak

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Comments

  1. Catherine says

    January 26, 2017 at 5:00 pm

    I feel like Andrew would appreciate this so hard!

    Reply
    • Hillary @ 918 Plate says

      January 26, 2017 at 8:30 pm

      DO ITTTT

      Reply
  2. Alison @ The Sunday Glutton says

    January 27, 2017 at 7:07 pm

    I love a buttery steak and that creamed spinach looks so decadent and yummy. I really like the addition of mushrooms in there, looks like it makes the side nice and hearty. This would save mega bucks versus eating at a steak restaurant – Thanks!!!

    Reply
  3. romain | glebekitchen says

    January 28, 2017 at 12:17 pm

    A good steak is a wonderful meal and that compound butter sounds fantastic! I so agree that red meat is supposed to be red and I love the idea of red wine as a side. Do you think adding the juice from the steaks would be good mixed into the spinach?

    Reply
    • 918 Plate says

      January 30, 2017 at 3:03 pm

      Since it’s made in the same pan, that is EXACTLY what happens! All that buttery and juicy goodness gets turned into the creamy spinach gravy. It’s so good!

      Reply
  4. Neena | Paint the Kitchen Red says

    January 28, 2017 at 3:21 pm

    What a great combination: steak and creamed spinach – Thanks for sharing the restaurant secret to a good steak!

    Reply
    • 918 Plate says

      January 30, 2017 at 3:03 pm

      You’re welcome 🙂

      Reply
  5. Jamie | A Sassy Spoon says

    January 29, 2017 at 9:52 am

    Nothing like a good steak AND date night in?! Sign me up! 🙂

    Reply
    • 918 Plate says

      January 30, 2017 at 3:04 pm

      YES YES! 🙂

      Reply
  6. mikaela | wyldflour says

    January 29, 2017 at 11:22 pm

    I am so excited about this recipe! We make steak so often in our house, but with how FREEZING it is outside, I never feel up to grilling it. I always feel so incompetent at cooking a steak on the stove top, but these instructions are so helpful!

    Reply
    • 918 Plate says

      January 30, 2017 at 3:04 pm

      I’m the opposite…incompetent at the grill! Maybe we can trade notes. 🙂

      Reply
  7. Erica says

    January 30, 2017 at 5:00 pm

    5 stars
    Steak and spinach? Sold! This recipe looks delicious and right up our alley for a special Valentine’s Day dinner at home, thank you!

    Reply

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