Steak- Italian Style

By marie2

Ingredients

• Serves 2
• 2 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil, plus some for oiling
• 1 ⁄2 teaspoon crushed red pepper flakes
• 1 teaspoon dried oregano just under a teaspoon
• Kosher salt or 1⁄2 teaspoon table salt, or to taste
• 2 teaspoons red wine vinegar
• 1 New York strip steak (approximately 12 ounces)
• 8 ounces cherry or grape tomatoes, halved
• Few sprigs fresh oregano, to serve (optional)

Preparation

Step 1

Heat a grill pan, or cast-iron or heavy nonstick frying pan.

In a small dish that can take the steak snugly later, combine the extra-virgin olive oil, red pepper flakes, dried oregano, salt and red wine vinegar.

Oil the steak lightly and put it in the hot pan and cook for 2 minutes on each side, then remove it to the dish of spicy marinade and sit the cooked steak for 2 minutes a side in the dish. Your steak will be rare, but that's the way it's meant to be — although if you want to cook it for longer, I won't stop you.

Remove the steeped steak to a board, ready for slicing, and while it sits there, arrange the cherry tomatoes, cut-side down, in the marinade dish. Cut the steak into thin slices on the diagonal and arrange on a serving dish or 2 dinner plates.

Smoosh the tomatoes around in the marinade, then pour them, and the marinade, over the ribbons of meat. Add a few leaves of fresh oregano, if you can get them, and serve immediately.