Bistro des Z'Artes

Serves 4 persons

Ingredients

600g Beef fillet cut into strips ( you can try other meats, but the most tender will be beef fillet)

50ml Olive oil

100g Mushrooms

100g Onions

1 clove of garlic

20g chopped gherkin

1 spoon of Dijon mustard

60ml of good beef stock 8 or a little crumbled stock cube)

150ml great cream

Method

1. Heat a non stick heavy, wide frying pan as hot as it will go.
2. Add the beef & the olive oil in batches & fry off as hot as possible, so that the beef flash fries & does not stew.
3. Remove the beef from the pan & add the chopped onions & sliced mushrooms.
4. Sauté until soft & cooked through.
5. Add a spoon of mustard, chopped gherkins, salt & pepper.
6. Add the beef stock & the cream & reduce down until you have the consistency you are looking for.
7. Add back in the beef, check the seasoning & simmer for 1 minute.
8. Serve with great pilaf rice or sauté potatoes