Sliced Steak With Lemon And Thyme

Total Time: 18 mins Preparation Time: 10 mins Cook Time: 8 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 4
• 660 g rump steak (1 x 2.5cm-thick)
• 5 sprigs thyme, to give 1 x 15ml tablespoon stripped leaves
• 2 bruised garlic cloves
• 80 ml extra virgin olive oil
• 1/2 lemon, juice of, zest and
• 1 teaspoon maldon salt or 1/2 teaspoon table salt
• good grinding fresh pepper

Recipe

• 1 cut away the fat from around the edge of the steak while you heat a griddle or heavybased pan.
• 2 brush the steak with oil to prevent it sticking to the griddle or pan, and cook for 3 minutes a side plus 1 minute each side turned again (this gives you pretty griddle marks) for desirably rare meat; the lemon in the post-hoc marinade “cooksâ€? it a little more.
• 3 while the steak is cooking, place the thyme leaves, garlic, oil, lemon zest and juice, and salt and pepper in a wide, shallow dish.
• 4 once the steak is cooked, place it in the dish of marinade for 4 minutes a side, before removing it to a board and slicing thinly on the diagonal.