Pinwheel Steaks

  • Level: Easy
  • Yield: 6 servings
  • Total: 25 min
  • Prep: 10 min
  • Cook: 15 min
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Ingredients

Filling:

1 (3-ounce) jar pine nuts, 1/3 cup

2 cups fresh baby spinach leaves

1 cup arugula leaves

2 cloves cracked garlic

3/4 cup grated Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese, 4 handfuls

Salt and pepper

1/8 to 1/4 teaspoon freshly grated nutmeg, eyeball it

1/4 cup extra-virgin olive oil, eyeball it

Steaks:

3 thin cut (3/4-inch) New York strip steaks

Coarse salt and black pepper

1 tall jar, 18 to 20 ounces, roasted red peppers, well drained, about 3 peppers

Extra-virgin olive oil, for drizzling

Metal skewers

Directions

  1. Preheat oven to 500 degrees F.
  2. Toast pine nuts in a small pan over medium heat until golden. Place spinach, arugula, garlic, cheese, 2 pinches salt, a few grinds black pepper, nutmeg, and toasted nuts in a food processor. Pulse grind the filling into a paste. Taste and adjust seasonings. Remove 1/2 cup of filling paste to a bowl and stir in extra-virgin olive oil to loosen it. Reserve remaining filling in processor bowl.
  3. Place steaks between layers of waxed paper several inches apart. Pound steaks with a heavy bottomed pan to 1/2 their thickness. Season each steak with salt and pepper on both sides. Cover each steak with a thin layer of filling and top with roasted red peppers. Roll steaks tightly and cut each steak in 1/2 across. Secure pinwheels with a carefully placed skewer and set 6 pinwheels on a baking sheet. Drizzle with extra-virgin oil and roast 12 to 15 minutes. Remove skewers and transfer pinwheels to dinner plates. Top each with a generous portion of reserved sauce made from filling and extra-virgin olive oil, combined.

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The Petite Gourmet

What a fun and delicious dish! I love using recipes because it makes you think outside of the box - I don't think I would have come up with these particular stuffing ingredients on my own. To address a couple of other readers' concerns: if pine nuts are hard to find or are too expensive, you could always substitute walnuts, which are much cheaper. Also, it's difficult to find fresh arugula in some grocery stores, so I just used an equal extra amount of spinach and it was perfectly fine. I will make this again soon!

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