Nigella Lawson's Tagliata For Two

Total Time: 14 mins Preparation Time: 10 mins Cook Time: 4 mins

Ingredients

• 2 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil (plus some for oiling)
• 1/2 teaspoon crushed red pepper flakes
• 1 teaspoon dried oregano
• 1/2 teaspoon table salt (or just under 1 teaspoon of kosher salt)
• 2 teaspoons red wine vinegar
• 12 ounces new york strip steaks (1 steak)
• 8 ounces cherries (halved) or 8 ounces grape tomatoes (halved)
• 3 sprigs fresh oregano (to serve) (optional)

Recipe

• heat a grill pan, or cast-iron or heavy non-stick frying pan.
• in a small dish that can take the steak snugly later, combine the extra-virgin olive oil, red pepper flakes, dried oregano, salt, and red wine vinegar. oil the steak lightly and put it in the hot pan and cook for 2 minutes on each side, then remove it to the dish of spicy marinade and sit the cooked steak for 2 minutes a side in the dish. your steak will be rare, but that's the way it's meant to be.
• remove the steeped steak to a board, ready for slicing, and while it sits there, arrange the cherry tomatoes, cut-side down, in the marinade dish. cut the steak into thin slices on the diagonal and arrange on a serving dish or 2 dinner plates.
• smoosh the tomatoes around in the marinade, then pour them, and the marinade, over the ribbons of meat. add a few leaves of fresh oregano, if you can get them, and serve immediately.