Mexican beef steak - Mexikansk biff (retro)

MEXICAN BEEF STEAK
Mexikansk biff

This is a dinner I sometimes make when I can afford to buy really good steak, which isn’t too often these days. It’s easy to make and the salad is lovely with its grated cheese. It’s a typical 60s recipe for Sweden, when people started travelling around the world and learning more about other countries and their food. I don’t think this dish is very Mexican from the start, but someone apparently thought so with the chili sauce and the onion rings. No matter, it’s delicious and I love it. A real steak of beef which is exotic thanks to its colourful and flavourful accompaniments. If you like, serve it with potato crisps warmed up in the oven or with white bread.

4 servings

4 slices really tender steak, thickness to your liking

salt, black pepper
butter or margarine for frying

For serving and decoration:

4 large onions
1 green bell pepper
chili sauce
iceberg lettuce
strong grated cheese

Very thinly slice 1 to 1½ of the onions and take the slices apart into rings, which you put in cold, salted water for a while – the onion then becomes milder in taste and extra crisp. Cut remaining onions in a little thicker slices and fry them until golden brown. Cut the bell pepper in rings and shred the lettuce.

Quickly fry the steaks in a hot frying pan with well-browned fat. Flavour them and serve with raw and fried onion, chili sauce, sweet pepper and shredded lettuce sprinkled with lots of strong, grated cheese.

Enjoy!

Bella