Beef and blue cheese pickups
2
Points®
Total time: 1 hr 20 min • Prep: 15 min • Cook: 35 min • Serves: 12 • Difficulty: Easy
Elegant and undeniably flavorful, these steak crostini are a perfect party appetizer or a nice accompaniment for a mealtime salad. If you have a jar of ground fennel seed in your spice drawer, go ahead and use it here. Just know that grinding whole fennel seeds just before using them releases their natural oils to ensure that the most flavor is extracted from the spice. Don’t stir the onions more than about every 5 minutes so that they develop a deep golden hue and lots of sweetness as they caramelize and cook down.
Ingredients
Olive oil cooking spray
3 spray(s)
Olive oil
4 tsp
Uncooked onion
16 oz
Table salt
¾ tsp
Fresh thyme
1 tsp
Whole wheat French bread
8 oz
Uncooked lean flank steak
1 pound(s)
Fennel seeds
1 tsp
Garlic powder
½ tsp
Paprika
½ tsp
Black pepper
¼ tsp
Gorgonzola cheese
1 oz
Instructions
1
Heat 2 teaspoons of oil in large nonstick skillet over medium heat; add onion and ¼ teaspoon of salt. Cook, stirring occasionally, until onion is softened, about 5 minutes. Reduce heat to low and cook onion, stirring occasionally, until light golden, about 20 minutes longer. Transfer to small bowl and stir in thyme; let cool. (Can be made up to 1 day ahead and refrigerated.)
2
Preheat broiler.
3
Arrange bread on baking sheet. Lightly spray tops of bread slices with olive oil nonstick spray. Broil 5 inches from heat, without turning, until golden, about 2 minutes.
4
Rub remaining 2 teaspoons oil all over steak. Mix together fennel, garlic powder, paprika, pepper, and remaining ½ teaspoon salt in cup; rub all over steak.
5
Spray grill pan with nonstick spray and set over medium heat. Put steak in grill pan and grill until instant-read thermometer inserted into side of steak registers 145°F, about 5 minutes per side. Transfer steak to cutting board; let stand 10 minutes.
6
To serve, cut steak against grain on slight diagonal into 24 thin slices. Arrange bread, toasted side up, on platter. Top each toast with about 2 teaspoons caramelized onion, 1 slice of steak (folded to fit bread), and few crumbles Gorgonzola.
7
Per serving: 2 pieces
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