Making a Delicious Red Wine Sauce

There are a lot of great recipes that you can prepare with a dry red wine, but a delicious red wine sauce is one that you are definitely going to want to try out. There are a few different variations on this recipe that you can try, but there are a couple basic recipes that are really popular and which are going to be worth a try for you to make at home.

Skillet Steak With Red Wine Sauce

One recipe with red wine sauce that you are sure to love is the skillet steak with red wine sauce. This is a gourmet meal but one that is easy enough that you are going to be able to prepare it right at home, even with very little cooking experience.

For this recipe you are going to need to get 2 ¼ cups strong beef stock, 2 ½ tablespoons flour, 2 small garlic cloves minced, 1 teaspoon Worchestershire sauce, ½ bay leaf, ¾ teaspoon tomato paste, 2 beef bouillon cubes, 1 cup mushrooms sliced, 1 tablespoon butter, ½ cup dry red wine, and salt and pepper to taste.

Then for the steak you are going to need 3 tablespoons butter, 4 8 oz. sirloin steaks, and parsley sprigs for garnish.

Now to prepare you want to heat the beef stock until it reaches boiling point, and then you mix flour into the remaining cool stock and stir into hot stock. Then you add in the garlic as well as the Worchestshire sauce, bay leaf, tomato paste and bouillon cubes, and then you want to simmer for about forty-five minutes.

Then you sauté the mushrooms in butter until they are lightly browned and add the mushrooms and red wine to the sauce and cook for about seven or eight minutes longer. Then you want to season to taste with salt and pepper and this is the sauce.

Then you want to cook the steaks for about ten minutes making sure that you are cooking well on both sides, until the meat is medium rare. Then you want to take the red wine sauce and drizzle it over top of the steaks and serve with a side of vegetables. You are going to love this dish and it is one that is so easy you can easily prepare it and serve it for guests when you really want to wow them. This is one recipe that you are definitely going to want to add to your repertoire.