Beef Tenderloin, Leeks, Mushrooms, Artichokes
Elegant for any dinner party, stuffed Beef Tenderloin, Leeks, Mushrooms, Artichokes, enables basic preparation ease, even for the guy taking on some new culinary skills of his own.
With an upcoming dinner party at the new home of longtime friends, Mike and Debbie, I couldn’t help but think of Mike when preparing today’s stuffed beef tenderloin, since their event gathering will take on a new twist from the past, Mike will be preparing the meal. Yes. My former editor of years ago has taken a recent interest in the kitchen, including, sharing at our occasional lunches together his latest successes on recipes prepared from the blog. Well, all except the meat loaf, that is, whose recipe obtained elsewhere, has, according to his wife Debbie become some sort of an obsession. It is possible I may even get to experience this classic masterpiece at our dining juncture.
Now Mike’s new culinary adventures should not be confused with a prior lack of knowledge on good food or taste even despite recently confiding his great strides in now understanding the vital importance of seasoning foods in their preparation, like the use of salt and pepper.
Mike has always appreciated good food, both at restaurants, and home cooked.
Besides, his wife Debbie, originally from Texas is quite a good cook to boot, including in the talented preparation of dishes reflecting those flavor influences of the Southwest.
And then, there is Mike’s history, having been a former long time newspaper guy so although this followed working in corporate communications over the course of years old habits die hard and without blinking an eye, Mike can still always zip off the current top restaurants in the Philadelphia region and what Craig LaBan, Inquirer restaurant critic is saying about them.
I am always assured a fantastic meal whenever Mike chooses the groups dining destination. And, carrying along on those old die hard newspaper habits, Mike can also always be counted on for the immediate passing along of any up to date, interesting food information particularly appreciated at moments when one is busily preparing foods, writing recipes, or up to their elbows washing dishes while sulking on having missed Craig LaBan’s Tuesday afternoon Twitter chats. Again.
So at this most recent of occasional lunches together, despite the influences of Southwestern flavors that Mike has become accustomed, and in our discussion surrounding the recent meatloaf obsession there had been no mention of peppers, chipotle sauce, or Mexican style spices still, I am confident that should this dish appear on the table of occasion it will at least present precisely seasoned with salt and pepper.
And this is how I couldn’t help but think about Mike when preparing today’s dish. Well, anticipating fine accomplishment on the first dinner party at the new home of Mike and Debbie, its newest twist, Mike preparing the meal.
And then, perhaps, just perhaps, at our next occasional lunch together Mike shall inform me on another among his smashing dinner party successes with friends, his newest specialty with it’s basic preparation ease, stuffed Beef Tenderloin, Leeks, Mushrooms, Artichokes. Perfect. Even for the guy taking on some new culinary skills of his own.
Beef Tenderloin, Leeks, Mushrooms, Artichokes
Ingredients
- For the Beef Tenderloin
- 4 1/2 pound beef tenderloin, butterflied
- 4 tablespoons butter, approximately for separately sauteing leeks, garlic and mushrooms
- 1 large leek, white part, sliced lengthwise, then in half
- 1 cup sliced assorted mushrooms, approximately, button, crimini, shitake
- 2 cloves garlic, chopped fine
- 1/8 cup chopped fresh parsley
- 1/3 cup provolone cheese, grated
- 1/8 cup fresh grated Parmesan cheese
- 3 whole artichoke hearts, approximately, sliced in half lengthwise
- 1 teaspoon coarse kosher salt, more to taste
- 1 teaspoon cracked black pepper
- kitchen string, enough for tying stuffed tenderloin before roasting
- For the Sauce:
- 3/4 cup white wine
- 7 ounce container D'Artagnan Duck and Veal Demiglace
- 3/4 stick butter, cut into small bits, chilled
- a couple pinches coarse kosher salt
- a couple pinches cracked black pepper
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Set butterflied tenderloin on a large parchment lined baking sheet. In a large size nonstick sauté pan melt 2 tablespoons butter on very low heat, add leeks and cook until softened, about 5 minutes, sprinkle with a couple pinches of salt and pepper, stir, remove from heat and spoon into a large glass bowl, wipe out pan.
- Melt two tablespoons butter in the same nonstick sauté pan, add mushrooms, stir to prevent mushrooms from crowding and sauté mushrooms on medium to medium high heat for three to five minutes until cooked and free of moisture, stir in the garlic, add a couple pinches of salt and pepper, cook for another minute then transfer mushroom mixture to the bowl with the leeks
- Stir in the parsley, grated provolone and Parmesan Spread the vegetable cheese mixture over the butterflied tenderloin leaving at least an inch border all around
- Top the sliced artichokes down the center of the mixture then roll up the stuffed tenderloin using kitchen string to secure the meat lengthwise and around four to five string ties to firmly secure.
- Set stuffed tenderloin into a shallow roasting pan, place into oven and cook around thirty-five to forty minutes. Check for doneness
- Remove roast from oven, tent immediately with aluminum foil and let rest for at least ten minutes before slicing
- The roast will continue to cook further once removed from the oven.
- For the Sauce: Reduce the wine in a small saucepan by about three quarter the amount on medium heat, reduce heat to low and stir in the D'Artagnan Duck and Veal Demiglace, season with a couple pinches each of salt and pepper, cook on low heat around three to four minutes until very hot. Turn off heat then whisk in butter a few bits at a time until well incorporated and smooth, check seasoning, adjust to taste
- Assembly: Drizzle each plate with sauce positioning the meat halfway on top of the sauce.
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