Ingredients
Steak (we used four thinly sliced steaks that I cut in thirds to make them smaller)
Veggies of your choice (we used, carrots, green beans, red peppers and green onions)
Olive oil
Garlic (I used about 4 cloves)
Worcestershire sauce
salt and pepper
Steak spices
For the sauce
1/4 cup balsamic vinegar
1/4 cup beef broth
green onion
olive oil
1 tbsp brown sugar
1. Marinate the steaks. I prepared them (cut them) and then I sprinkled salt and pepper on each piece and then sprinkle some Worcestershire sauce on it. They marinated in the fridge for about 2 hours.
2. Prepare the vegetables, you want them to be really thin and small so that you can fit as much as you can in the rolls.
3. Heat the oil with two garlic cloves crushed, cook the vegetables (not the green onions), we cooked them for about 5-10 minutes but we like our veggies crunchy. (Side note: I don't like cooked peppers so I cooked the carrots and green beans and then the peppers, so if you have some picky eaters you can cook all your veggies separately and have personalized rolls for everyone)
4. Once the veggies are cooked, don't forget the uncooked green onions, roll them up in one piece of steak and thread a toothpick through the meat to keep the roll together.
5. In the same pan used for the veggies put a little more olive oil and garlic and cook the rolls. Since the meat is very thin, you don't really need to have it that long so about a couple minutes per side is sufficient, while they cook sprinkle steak spices on them. This time we left the toothpicks in until they were ready to eat, but next time I think I would take them off and try to cook it seam down and see if they stay together nicely.
My husband bought me some much needed pots and pans (Lagostina 3-ply commercial clad from Canadian Tire) and they were worth the expense. So look for some more recipes in the next few weeks as I love using new things and this is definitely pushing me to try new recipes..hehe..
Making the glaze
While your meat is cooking, heat up some olive oil in a sauce pan, add a green onion finely chopped, let it cook for a little while until onion is soft. add the other ingredients and bring to a boil, it will boil fairly quickly and it does get bubbly so keep an eye on it and keep stirring until it thickens.
Place rolls on a plate and put the glaze on top of the rolls and there you have it.
Note: If you are making a lot and they don't all fit in the pan (like we ran into) just warm up your oven very low and put them in there while the rest cooks, then serve them on a plate and put the glaze on. Make sure your oven is not too hot or they will keep cooking. We also said that these would be amazing with asparagus so I'll update that next time we try that.
Enjoy!!
* This recipe is strongly inspired, actually pretty much stolen from, http://picturetherecipe.com/index.php/recipes/balsamic-glazed-steak-rolls/
