If there’s one thing I’ve learned in the kitchen this year, it’s that you don’t need to be Gordon Ramsay to be cooking delicious, succulent, perfectly cooked steak. You just need your air fryer. Yep, ALL HAIL THE AIR FRYER.
No more bringing a pan up to temperature and questioning do I turn the steak or not and when? Nope. None of that. Just plug in your air fryer and follow this handful of steps and you’ll never go back to cooking steak in a pan again.
The air fryer makes steak GREAT again (and not tough or dry)…
I’ve been cooking cuts of steak for my family for over 20 years and to be honest, it can be a real hit and miss affair – and don’t even get me started on when huz cooks steak on the barbecue. A couple of weeks ago I decided to give it a go in the air fryer and the results were positively mind-blowing.
Who knew that the humble, unsuspecting air fryer was such a gun at cooking the perfect, medium cooked juicy piece of porterhouse? Cooked at 200°C, 10 minutes cooking time is all you need for a lip-smacking, beautiful piece of porterhouse steak.
BUT … there are two important steps that should ALWAYS be adhered to:
- First, don’t cook freezing cold steak. SO in saying that, bring your meat out of the fridge for around 40 minutes before you cook it and have it at room temperature.
- Second, no matter how hungry you are, always let the steak rest for at least a few minutes. Trust me, it’s a time investment worth keeping.
It’s so easy, you just need the air fryer, butter, salt, pepper, and your steak. That’s it! Keen to have a crack at it in your own kitchen? Just follow these steak sizzling steps below!
Air fryer steak – medium cooked
Ingredients
- 2 pieces of thick-cut steak (ie. around 3cm thick porterhouse or rump)
- 1 tablespoon of butter, melted
- salt and pepper
Method
1. Bring your piece of steak to room temperature for around half an hour before cooking it!
2. Rub the steak with melted butter and season both sides with salt and pepper.
3. Place the steak in the air fryer basket with space between them. DO NOT PREHEAT THE AIR FRYER. Set the temperature to 200°C and cook for 10 minutes.
4. Remove from the basket and let the steak rest, covered on a plate for five minutes. VERY IMPORTANT!
Then all that’s left to do is serve and marvel at beautiful, tender, juicy air fryer steak. Yum! (And such an easy clean up!)
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