Hereford aged striploin tartare, red pepper, orange, pine nut

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This colourful beef tartare from Stu Deeley is garnished with a homemade red pepper ketchup, jalapeño mayonnaise, orange, pine nuts and pea shoots. Stu Deeley prefers the texture of vegan mayonnaise for this recipe, but regular mayonnaise will also work.

First published in 2024

Ingredients

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Red pepper ketchup

  • 500g of red pepper
  • 75g of rice wine vinegar
  • 25g of caster sugar
  • 5g of salt
  • 25g of ultratex

Red pepper pickle

  • 1 red pepper
  • 125g of caster sugar
  • 125g of rice wine vinegar
  • 50g of water

Jalapeño mayo

Beef tartare

  • 240g of beef striploin, diced, ideally Hereford aged striploin
  • 20g of beef fat, melted
  • 20g of olive oil
  • 8g of salt

Garnish

Equipment

  • 4 small ring moulds

Method

1

For the red pepper ketchup, first remove the core and seeds from the red pepper

2

Blend up the peppers and then pass the puree through a fine mesh sieve. You should have 250ml of juice

3

Add the remaining red pepper ketchup ingredients and blend together until smooth. Pass through a fine sieve

  • 75g of rice wine vinegar
  • 25g of caster sugar
  • 5g of salt
  • 25g of ultratex
4

For the red pepper pickle, grill the pepper until the skins turn black all over, turning regularly. Once blackened, transfer the pepper to a bowl and cover with a tight lid. Let the peppers steam for about 5–10 minutes, then peel off the skins and dice the peppers

5

Warm the sugar, vinegar and water in a pan, whisking until the sugar is dissolved 

  • 125g of caster sugar
  • 125g of rice wine vinegar
  • 50g of water
6

Pour this over the diced red peppers and set aside

7

Blend the jalapeños until smooth, and then squeeze through a tea towel or cloth

8

Mix the jalapeño liquid with the vegan mayo and salt

  • 300g of vegan mayonnaise
  • 5g of salt
9

Combine all the ingredients for the beef tartare mix, and set aside

  • 240g of beef striploin, diced, ideally Hereford aged striploin
  • 20g of beef fat, melted
  • 20g of olive oil
  • 8g of salt
10

Cut the orange into supremes, and then dice the pieces

11

Toast the pine nuts with a dash of olive oil and salt

12

Plate the tartare in a ring

13

Top the tartare with the ketchup, pickled peppers, orange pieces, pine nuts, jalapeño mayonnaise and pea shoots

First published in 2024

Chef Stuart Deeley cooked in some of Birmingham’s best kitchens before making a name for himself as the winner of MasterChef: The Professionals 2019. Today, he celebrates hearty, unpretentious cooking at his restaurant Smoke.

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