Tender beef fillet with pesto cream

Ideas
6 servings Cooking: 30 mins
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The melt-in-your-mouth kind of dish

By Food24 May 04 2015
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Ingredients (5)

1.2 kg beef — fillet
30 ml fresh chillies — 573
30 ml soy sauce
75 ml cream — fresh
150 ml pesto — basil
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Method:

Preheat oven to 180°C.

Pour the oil and soya sauce over the fillet. Season generously with black pepper and leave to stand for approximately 30 minutes.

Sear the fillet quickly in a hot pan to seal and brown it.

Transfer the fillet to a roasting tin and bake in a preheated oven for 20 minutes per kilogram for medium-rare or 24 minutes when following this recipe.

Remove from the oven and set aside to rest for five minutes.

Mix the pan juices with the cream and pesto and heat. Slice the fillet and serve with the pesto sauce.

Text and image: Ideas magazine

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