Elevate your thick, juicy steaks with a creamy blue cheese compound butter and fried onion strings. Basting your steaks with butter and herbs in the final minutes of cooking gives them that eye-catching color and crispy exterior you can’t wait to cut into it. These small and easy additions will add so much flavor to your dish. You’ll score extra points with that special someone with the pretty presentation, too.

Quick Info

⏱️ Under 30 minutes • 🍽️ 2 servings • ⭐ 97%

Tags

[North American] • [Easy] • [Under 30 Minutes] • [Dinner]

Ingredients

• 1 cup (2 sticks) unsalted butter, room temperature
• 1 cup crumbled blue cheese
• 2 tablespoons chives, finely chopped
• ¼ teaspoon kosher salt
• ¼ teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
• ½ medium yellow onion, thinly sliced
• 2 cups buttermilk
• 2 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 teaspoon paprika
• 1 teaspoon kosher salt, plus more to taste
• ½ teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
• 4 cups canola oil, for frying
• 2 1½-inch-thick rib eye steaks
• 1 tablespoon kosher salt
• 1 tablespoon freshly ground black pepper
• 2 tablespoons olive oil
• 2 tablespoons unsalted butter
• 5 sprigs of fresh thyme

Instructions Preview

1. Make the compound butter: In a medium bowl…
2. Transfer the butter to a piece of plastic …
3. Make the fried onions: In a shallow bowl, …

…and 6 more steps

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Recipe by: Betsy Carter, Amanda Berrill • From: Tasty