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GRILLED RIB EYE STEAK WITH COMPOUND BUTTER

Grilled Rib Eye Steak: Reverse Sear and Thermal Principles

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Description

Grilled Ribeye Steak with Compound Butter Recipe


Ingredients

Scale

For steaks:

  • 2 quality rib eye steaks, about 1 ½” thick
  • Salt
  • Ground black pepper

For compound butter:

  • 2 sticks butter
  • 1 tsp lemon zest
  • 1½ tsp minced fresh thyme
  • 1 Tbsp minced fresh parsley
  • ¼ tsp ground black pepper

or

  • 2 sticks butter
  • 2 oz good quality blue cheese (Stilton preferred)
  • ½ tsp minced fresh thyme
  • ½ tsp lemon zest

Ingredients for grilled rib eye steak


Instructions

For the steaks

  • Set up your grill for 2-zone cooking by heating one side.
  • Salt and pepper your steaks.

Salt and pepper rib eyes before grilling

Grill Roasting

  • When the grill is hot, place steaks on the cool side of the grill.
  • Probe a steak, making sure that no part of the probe, transition, or wire crosses the high-heat zone.
  • Set up the air probe, near the steak but far from the hot zone.

Probe the ribeyes to monitor their temps

  • Set the alarms on your Smoke: 110°F (43°C) high alarm for the meat—or 15° less than your desired doneness—and 250°F (121°C) high alarm for the air.
  • Let the steaks cook.
  • When the alarm sounds on your steak, verify the temp with your Thermapen.

Searing

  • Move the steaks to the hot zone and continue cooking.

Sear rib eye steaks on the grill

  • Flip the steaks after 2-3 minutes, checking regularly with your Thermapen.
  • When your steaks are 5° below your target temp, pull them from the grill.

Verify the temp of your grilled steaks with your Thermapen

  • Tent the steaks and let them rest 5 minutes.

For the butter

  • Prepare flavorings.

Preparing the flavors for the butter, fresh herbs and lemon zest

  • Mix the butter and flavorings well in a mixer.

Mix butter with flavorings

  • Press out into a rough cylinder.
  • Roll in parchment paper, forming into a better cylinder.

Wrap the butter in a cylinder of parchment paper

  • Twist ends of the paper to finish the form.
  • Store in refrigerator or, if for later use, the freezer.

Bring it all together

If your butter is cold and firm, place a slice of it on each steak as soon as they come off the grill. If the butter is still quite soft from beating, you can add it right before serving. Either way, it will melt and spread its flavors over the surface of the steak, pooling at its base to create a sauce as fine as any chef could ever hope to make.

GRILLED RIB EYE STEAK WITH COMPOUND BUTTER