Poached Filets Mignons with Horseradish Sauce
- four 4-ounce fully trimmed center-cut filets mignons
- 1 cup veal demiglace
- 1 cup water
- 2 tablespoons Dijon mustard
- 2 tablespoons bottled horseradish
- Accompaniment: Butternut Squash, Turnip, and Green-BeanQuinoa
- Season filets with salt and pepper.
- In a 2-quart saucepan heat demiglace and water just to a simmer and add steak.
- Add some boiling water to mixture if necessary to make enough liquid to just cover steak.
- Poach steak at a bare simmer (meat will toughen if liquid is allowed to boil), without turning, 8 minutes and remove from broth.
- Boil broth over high heat until reduced to about 1/2 cup and stir in mustard and horseradish.
- Keep sauce warm over low heat and halve steaks horizontally.
- Mound quinoa mixture on 1 side of 4 large plates and arrange 2 slices steak alongside.
- Spoon sauce over steak.
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Taken from www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/poached-filets-mignons-with-horseradish-sauce-14475 (may not work)