Steak with Cabrales Sauce
Seared steak in a punchy blue cheese and cream sauce.
Ingredients
- 400 g Beef flank steak
- 80 g Cabrales
- 150 ml Heavy cream
- 60 ml Fino sherry
- 1 tbsp Extra-virgin olive oil
- ½ tsp Salt
- ½ tsp Black pepper
Method
- Season the steak with the salt and black pepper.
- Sear the steak in the olive oil over high heat until a deep brown crust forms on both sides, then transfer it to a plate to rest.
- Pour the sherry into the hot pan and scrape up the browned bits, add the cream, then stir in the cabrales until it melts into a smooth sauce.
- Slice the steak and pour the blue cheese sauce over the top.
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About Steak with Cabrales Sauce
Steak with Cabrales sauce is a Spanish take on the classic pairing of seared beef and blue cheese, built around Cabrales, the intensely pungent, cave-aged blue from the Asturias region in the north of Spain. It is bistro-style cooking rather than anything fussy: a good steak seared hard, then napped with a quick pan sauce that turns the fond and a splash of sherry into something rich and punchy. The whole thing comes together in around twenty minutes for two.
The appeal is the collision of a deeply browned, salty crust against a sauce that is sharp, creamy, and unapologetically funky, with fino sherry cutting through the cream so it never turns heavy. The move that ties it together is deglazing the hot pan with sherry to lift the browned bits before the cream and cheese go in, which folds all that seared flavor straight into the sauce. Sliced and poured over, it is a low-carb, protein-heavy main that eats like a restaurant plate, best with a few crisp potatoes or bread to catch the sauce.
Steak with Cabrales Sauce: frequently asked questions
How many calories are in Steak with Cabrales Sauce?
A serving has about 836 calories — 50.5g protein, 8.1g carbs, 63.9g fat, 0.3g fiber. Figures are estimated from the ingredient amounts and will shift with your portions and brands.
Is it high in protein?
Each serving has about 50.5g of protein, roughly 24% of its calories.
Is Steak with Cabrales Sauce gluten-free?
Based on its ingredients, Steak with Cabrales Sauce has no gluten-containing components, so it's naturally gluten-free — as always, check that any packaged ingredients you use are certified gluten-free to be safe.
Is Steak with Cabrales Sauce dairy-free?
Not as written — it uses Cabrales, Heavy cream. Swapping those for a plant-based alternative makes it dairy-free.
How many servings does Steak with Cabrales Sauce make?
This recipe makes 2 servings. In the app you can scale it up or down and the ingredient amounts adjust automatically.