The Divine Dish

Recipe for Steak with Spice Rub

steak salad

I was home from a series of press trips and food festivals and in the mood to cook.  After visiting the Silver Lake Cheese Shop and my local Whole Foods, I made a nice ribeye with spice rub salad and an heirloom tomato, mozzarella and basil salad.  Here is the recipe:

Spices for rub

I use this rub mix every time I make a steak.  It’s the perfect blend to enhance a nice juicy ribeye and easy to make.  Just mix 1 teaspoon each of ground mustard, powdered garlic, and kosher salt and 1/2 teaspoon of pepper.

Here is how it looked on the plate.

spices on plate

I bought a nice ribeye from wholefoods.  Take whichever cut of meat you choose and rub the spice mix all over the steak.  Leave it for about an hour to absorb into the steak before moving it to the stove.

ribeye

spiced steak

Preheat the oven to 375 degrees.  Coat the bottom of a nonstick ovenproof skillet with enough olive oil to prevent the steak from sticking.  Place over high heat and carefully put the steak in the hot pan to sear.  Once a crust forms, turn the steak over to sear the other side.  This usually takes 3 minutes on the first side and 2 minutes on the second.

cooking steak

Place the skillet in the oven to finish cooking, I usually leave it in about 12 minutes for medium rare.

cooked steak

Let the steak rest for at least 15 minutes.

cut steak

I chopped up the steak and made a mixed salad with what I had on hand, some fresh lettuce, avocados, peppers, olives, cucumber and feta cheese.

finished salad

I also made a nice heirloom tomato salad with some fresh mozzarella and basil.

heirloom tomatoes

I used  pineapple stripped and  green sweet heirloom tomatoes for the salad.

mozzarella

I added mozzarella and basil and topped it with a little olive oil.

tomato mozzarella salad