Butter Your Steak

One of my fast and family-favorite meals is a thinly sliced flank steak served atop toasted crusty bread and topped with garlic butter. To prepare the steak, heat the broiler or a frying pan. Wash and pat flank steak dry and sprinkle it with salt and freshly ground pepper. Pan-fry or broil to taste. (Rare and medium-rare work best with this cut of meat.)

Put 1/4- to 1/2-pound butter (depending on the steak’s size) to melt in a skillet along with 1 or 2 large garlic cloves that have been put through a press. Cut a wide loaf of French or Italian crusty bread into 1-inch-thick diagonal slices and put under the broiler to toast while you’re slicing the steak. To serve, place 1 or 2 pieces of bread on each plate, top with the flank steak slices and pour the garlic butter on top of the steak and bread.

--JUNE PERRY

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