Adobo Beef Salad with Apricot, Ginger and Hibiscus Salsa


Course : Salsas
Serves: 4
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Ingredients:


1 tablespoon vegetable oil

2 fillets beef tenderloins -- cleaned

1/2 cup Adobo sauce -- see directions

---SALSA:

1/2 cup white wine

1/4 cup sugar

1/2 cup Hibiscus flowers -- dried

1/2 cup ginger -- peeled and diced

1 medium juice of 1 lemon

2 tablespoons walnut oil

2 small shallots -- diced

2 cups apricots -- diced

2 tablespoons basil -- chopped

2 tablespoons mint -- chopped

2 teaspoons sea salt
 

Preparation / Directions:


1 pound mixed greens -- clean 1 pound baby vegetables, cut in half lengthwise 3 each basil sprigs 1. Adobo sauce: Soak chiles in hot water for 15 minutes and puree. 2. Marinate beef in adobo sauce and vegetable oil; keep refrigerated until ready to use. 3. To make salsa, combine wine, sugar, hibiscus, ginger and lemon in a sauce pan and bring to a boil. Set aside and let ingredients steep for at least 15 minutes. Strain through a fine sieve without pressing, then and walnut oil, peaches, shallots, basil, mint and season with salt. Set aside. 4. In a medium saute pan, at high heat, sear the beef for 45 seconds to 1 minute on each side. While the beef is cooking in the oven, saute baby vegetables with basil sprigs in vegetable oil for 2 minutes and deglaze the pan with 1 ounce of vinaigrette. Divide greens in the center of each plate, place beef on top and spoon vegetables and salsa around beef and greens.


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