Aussie Sirloin Roast Dinner by Exose Grant, MasterChef: The Professionals Finalist
Exose Grant, MasterChef: The Professionals Finalist – Aussie Sirloin Roast Dinner.
Ingredients
Serves 6
Confit Garlic Paste
- 1kg garlic cloves
- 1 litre vegetable oil
Confit Garlic Mash
- 1kg rooster potatoes
- 250ml double cream
- 70g salted butter
- 70g confit garlic paste x 70g
Sauteed Greens
- Hispi cabbage
- Kale
- 250g salted butter
- 1 tbsp nutmeg powder
- Maldon salt
- Table Salt
Infused Vegetable Oil
- 1 litre vegetable oil
- ½ bulb garlic
- Few sprigs rosemary
- Few sprigs thyme
Roast Potatoes
- Rooster Potatoes
- Infused Vegetable Oil
- Table Salt
- Cracked Black Pepper
Yorkshire Puddings
- 8 eggs
- 600ml whole milk
- 500g plain flour
- 150ml cold water
- Salt
Beef Gravy
- 2 shallots
- Sprigs of thyme
- ½ a bulb garlic
- 2.5ltr beef stock
- 250g veal jus base
- Redcurrant jelly
Finishing Off
- Sirloin Steak
- Salted Butter
- Garlic
- Thyme
- Rosemary
- Maldon Salt & Black Pepper
Method
Confit Garlic Paste
- Add garlic cloves to a half gastro and cover with vegetable oil. Wrap with foil.
- Confit in the oven at 120℃ for 2 hours until the garlic is golden and tender.
- Pass through a sieve, and keep the oil aside for future batches.
- Blend the confit garlic in a thermomixer into a paste, store in a container.
Confit Garlic Mash
- Peel the potatoes and chop into small pieces, steam in the steamer for approximately 20 minutes until cooked through then pass through a potato ricer.
- In a saucepan, melt together double cream, confit garlic and butter.
- Add mash to a pan and, on a low heat, add the confit garlic cream mixture until desired consistency. Check for seasoning then transfer to piping bags.
Sauteed Greens
- Pick the kale and rinse well, then thinly slice the hispi cabbage and rinse well.
- Place in a pot of seasoned boiling water to cook then transfer to ice water.
- Drain well when cooled down and transfer to J cloths to drain.
- For the nutmeg butter, melt the butter and blend in nutmeg powder. Transfer to a plastic bottle.
Infused Vegetable Oil
- Crush garlic and place in a large saucepan with oil, rosemary and thyme. Heat up on a high heat until herbs start frying.
- Remove from heat and leave to infuse.
Roast Potatoes
- Peel & chop the potatoes into roast potato size.
- Steam the potatoes for approx. 15 minutes until half cooked, drain well then deep fry until slightly golden and crisp. Divide equally into gastros.
- Add infused vegetable oil and season with salt and pepper and mix well.
- Roast in Oven at 200℃ for approx. 20 minutes until golden and cooked through.
Yorkshire Puddings
- Crack eggs and milk into a large bowl and hand blend together.
- Add plain flour and hand blend the flour into the mix.
- Add cold water and hand blend together, season with salt.
- Place oil in Yorkshire pudding trays and heat up in the oven at 210c for 10 minutes. Reduce the temperature of the oven to 200℃ and pour in Yorkshire pudding mix. Cook for 10 minutes.
- When the timer is up, reduce the temperature of the oven to 180℃ and cook for a further 10 minutes. (It is important to not open the oven at any point when the Yorkshire puddings are cooking.)
Beef Gravy
- Caramelise shallots, thyme and garlic in a pan. Add veal base and beef stock combine well and reduce down by half until desired consistency.
- Season with salt and redcurrant jelly. Pass through a chinois.
Finishing Off
- Season and sear sirloin steak, transfer to the oven to cook to desired temperature then allow to rest.
- In a pan finish with butter herbs and garlic and baste, carve the sirloin steak and plate up the roast dinner.