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• Recipe Overview
• Ingredients
• Processes - Utensils
• Instructions

• Cuisine

  European >> French >> French

• Dietary Style

• Source

  Genius Kitchen(food.com)

| 1. Melt half the butter in a heavy med-sized saucepan over med-high heat. Add the shallots & cook for 2-3 min till just softened, stirring freq. | 2. Sprinkle over the flour & cook for 3-4 min till well-browned, stirring constantly. Whisk in the stock + tomato puree & season to taste w/salt & pepper. Simmer over low heat till the sauce is reduced by nearly half, stirring occ. | 3. Taste the sauce & adjust seasoning as desired. Add the Madeira wine & cook for 2-3 minutes. (The sauce can be made up to 3 dys in advance, chilled & then rewarmed to serve.). | 4. Snip the edges of the ham steaks to prevent curling. Melt the remaining butter in a lrg fry pan over med-high heat. Add the ham steaks & cook 4-5 min (turning once) till the meat feels firm to the touch. Serve immediately w/the sauce. | 5. *Notes* ~ This is where I often go astray w/a recipe - a point where I begin to think about a better (or easier) way to do something or a way I pers prefer. *For example* ~ 1) The recipe said to strain the sauce at the end of Prep Step 3, but I deleted that as I rarely see it as beneficial & certainly not w/this recipe as the sauce has no food solids other than finely minced shallots -- 2) I esp like that this sauce can be made ahead & rewarmed to serve, but I'd be more than reluctant to walk away from the lovely pan drippings from cooking the ham steaks -- so I'd be inclined to rewarm the sauce in that same pan to add to the rich flavor of the sauce b4 serving. | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

Estimated Nutritional Profile for Ingredients

Ingredient Name	Quantity	Unit	State	Energy (kcal)	Carbohydrates	Protein (g)	Total Lipid (Fat) (g)
butter	4	tablespoons		342.0	15.714	10.686	28.8
shallot	4		minced	460.8	107.52	16.0	0.64
purpose flour	2	tablespoons		1613.8703	0.0	359.0408	9.0667
beef stock	2	cups		342.72	37.3464	12.6504	16.1784
tomato puree	1	tablespoon		5.9375	1.4031	0.2578	0.0328
madeira wine	6	tablespoons		1613.8703	0.0	359.0408	9.0667
ham steak	4			1613.8703	0.0	359.0408	9.0667
salt black pepper			ground	1613.8703	0.0	359.0408	9.0667

- Means that suitable USDA nutrition profile could not be mapped for this ingredient-unit combination.