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All-American BBQ steak with sweet potato chips recipe

All-American BBQ steak with sweet potato chips recipe

There are times when 'quick cooking' is required, and for this you need to call on the best cuts of meat. This recipe uses juicy T-bone steaks, which taste mouth-watering when cooked on a hot barbecue.

Serves 2

Takes 10 minutes to make and 30 minutes to cook, plus marinating

Ingredients

2 T-bone steaks
2 large sweet potatoes, cut into chips
Good pinch of cayenne pepper
2 tbsp vegetable oil

For the marinade:

1 tbsp molasses or black treacle
1 tbsp Jack Daniel's whiskey or any bourbon whiskey
½ tbsp smoked paprika
½ tbsp cider vinegar
1 tbsp tomato purée
2 tbsp tomato ketchup
Juice of ½ lime

METHOD

How to make all-American steak with sweet potato chips

1. Preheat the oven to 220°C/fan200°C/gas 7. Combine all the marinade ingredients in a large dish. Add the steaks and mix to coat in the marinade. Season well and set aside to marinate for at least 20 minutes.

2. Place the sweet potatoes in a roasting tin and toss with the cayenne pepper and vegetable oil. Season with sea salt and black pepper and roast in the hot oven for 30 minutes until golden and crisp.

3. Just before the chips are ready, heat a griddle pan or heavy-based frying pan until very hot. Add 1 steak, and cook for 2-3 minutes each side for medium rare. Set aside on a warm plate to rest while you cook the remaining steak, then serve with the sweet potato chips.

4. To barbecue, preheat your barbecue in the usual way until it reaches the correct temperature. Cook turning once, bearing in mind you may have to adjust the cooking time slightly depending on how hot your barbecue is or how near the heat source the food is placed.

Tip: From the middle of the animal, this cut is a cross-section of the whole sirloin with the fillet still attached to it - the best of both worlds! The joy of this cut is that it retains and absorbs flavour from the bone. A T-bone weighs in at about 450g, so one steak could serve two, which is handy as they are quite pricey.