Rib-Eye Steak in the Wild

Delicious steak from fine beef cut cooked over a warm fire in a cold and windy day. Fire provides heat and comfort and a sense of safety against the odds of the weather. The medium rare cooking preserves the juices of this delicious meat without ruining it. As the name suggest, it forms a pink layer inside immediately after the crust, followed by a red line in the middle where the meat is rear and holds its best juices, very tender.

Ingredients

For the steak:

• Rib-Eye Steak meat - half kilo of steak
• Salt - it's important to salt the sides well for the best taste, for this stake I used a salt that was mixed with spice herbs like rosemary, garlic and thyme, or you can opt for any type of salt any would do a wonderful job.

For the buns (optional):

• Already proofed dough 500g - dough you made before that is already proofed: I made this mixing wheat flour, durum flour, salt, water and about 3 grams of yeast the night before, I did by feeling so amounts were not measured, but the hydration was about 60%, so if you want to be very precise you can use this formula to get each amount in grams, just substitute result with the final amount of dough you want, in this case 500g. This formula is worth keeping as you can get any amount of flour and water needed based on the amount of dough you want to make and on the hydration percent.
  • floor + floor * hydration-percent = result.
    In this case flour + flour * (60 / 100) = 500, so flour = 500 / 1.6 = 312 grams of flour
  
  
  • water = result - flour.
    So in this case water = 500 - 312 = 188 grams of water
  
  

Steak Preparation

First of all let's take care of setting up a fire and settle it so it will keep burning on its own as long as needed. Take pieces of wood and place them leaving a little bit of space between them so that air can go through as fire needs to breathe. Place the smaller pieces beneath the bigger ones, then set the fire by lighting dry grass or leaves on the bottom, or whatever you have that can easily combust.

Place a pan above it, and let it get very hot. In this case I have a cast iron pan which is perfect for fire as it can hold heat very well.

Meanwhile prepare the steak by seasoning it well with salt and pepper on both sides.

Buns Preparation

Cut the dough into smaller pieces and shape into tiny balls. Wait few minutes and then flatten them - as I did in this case, you can do it with your hand by stretching them, otherwise you'd need a rolling pin.

Steak Cooking

Put little bit of olive oil on the pan, or butter, then sear the steak on both sides. For the medium rare cooking I cooked the first side for six minutes and then the other for five. This is depending on the thickness of the steak though, as for this case it was a bit more than two centimeters. Once the steak is ready it's time to cook the buns, but before, I like to put some lemon and olive oil to make this delicious steak taste even better!

Buns Cooking and Assembling

Place the flat doughs on the pan and cook them for few minutes per side. As they are flat they will cook quite fast.

Cut the steak into stripes, then enjoy it by itself or in the buns. I ate a bit on its own and a bit in the buns, together with a fermented cucumber on the side.

Happy steak and wish you all the best.

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