Steak Pinwheels
How Italian’s do steak.
Full Recipe Video:
Servings: 4-6
Ingredients:
2.5 lbs. skirt steak, pounded thin
1 lb. prosciutto, thinly sliced
1 lb. provolone cheese, thinly sliced
1 lb. spinach
10 cloves garlic, sliced thin
Olive oil
1/2 lemon
Salt
Ground pepper
Garlic powder
Butcher’s twine
Meat thermometer
Chimichurri Sauce:
1/2-3/4 cup olive oil
2 tbsp. red wine vinegar
1/2 cup fresh parsley, finely chopped
3-4 garlic cloves, finely chopped or minced
1 red chili, deseeded and finely chopped
3/4 tsp. dried oregano
1 tsp. sea salt
Ground black pepper to taste
To make the chimichurri sauce, combine all ingredients in a medium bowl. We suggest making the sauce several hours ahead of time, or even the day before, and refrigerating. As the sauce sits, the flavors build.
Next, you want to cook the spinach. Coat a large frying pan with olive oil.
Add garlic and cook until lightly golden - make sure not to burn it.
Add spinach. Season with salt, pepper, and garlic powder to taste. Stir to combine all ingredients.
Squeeze juice from 1/2 lemon. Let spinach cook down until tender. Set aside.
The skirt steak you get from the butcher should come in long strips. For this amount of steak, we had two pieces of steak that were about the same length. It should already be pounded relatively thin. You can ask the butcher to pound it thinner for you, but we take our steak home and do it ourselves. Steak should be nice and thin, as you will be rolling up your other ingredients in the steak, so you don’t want it too thick. About 1/4” is great.
Season both sides of the steak pieces with salt, pepper, and garlic powder.
Time to start layering. On each piece of steak, add layer of prosciutto and then provolone. Using a tong or slotted spoon, add a layer of the cooked spinach on top of the provolone. Make sure to drain most of the oil and water before adding the spinach to the steak.
Starting at one end, roll your strips of steak (gently but tight). Once you have a tight roll, tie up the roll with butcher’s twine. We do 3 tight knots around the roll. This will hold it together on the grill.
Then, cut your roll in 3 even pieces down the middle. Make sure to cut sob that each piece is tied with the twine.
Complete this process for the second strip of steak. When done you should have about 6 pinwheels to put on the grill.
Heat grill to 400-420 degrees on one side. We keep one side of the grill off, as we use this for indirect heat.
Grill pinwheels on each side, 3 minutes at a time. How long you cook your pinwheels will be dependent on how you like your steak. Because the steak is rolled, the steak on the inside of the pinwheel will take longer to cook than the outside.
We rotate the pinwheels, 3 minutes on each side a couple times, and then move them to the indirect heat (other side of the grill that is not lit). They will continue to cook slowly.
To determine how the inside of the steak is cooked, take a meat thermometer while the steaks are off the fire and take an internal temperature of the pinwheel. Rare+ is around 125-130 degrees. Medium Rare is around 130-135.
We love our steak on the more rare side, so 125-130 degrees is good for us. If you want your steaks cooked through more, do another 3 minutes on each side, then repeat the process of moving them off the heat and taking the temperature until you have your desired result.
Remove grilled pinwheels onto a large serving platter. Garnish each piece with the chimichurri sauce and serve! We typically cut each pinwheel in half per serving.
Notes:
Steak:
We always suggest getting your meat from a reputable butcher or grocery. As with most everything, you get what you pay for!
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