Recipe: Eating on a Dime Bistecca Alla Pizzaiola

Recipe: Eating on a Dime Bistecca Alla Pizzaiola Delicious, fresh and tasty.

Bistecca Alla Pizzaiola. Bistecca Alla Pizzaiola (Steak With the Pizzaiolo's Wife's Sauce. Not sure where this comes from. May be from a book, may be my own, who knows anymore.

It really does make a big difference.

Bistecca Alla Pizzaiola This recipe comes from the brilliant Australian chef Bill Granger.

Like most of his food, this is simple, fresh and packed full of flavour. heidi.clacy Wodonga, Victoria.

You can cook Bistecca Alla Pizzaiola using 8 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Bistecca Alla Pizzaiola

1. You need 3 of to 4 T-bone steaks.

2. You need 1 of extra virgin olive oil.

3. You need 1 of sea salt.

4. It’s 1 of freshly ground black pepper.

5. You need 3/4 cup of white wine.

6. Prepare 500 of to 750 ml good quality tomato pasta sauce. I use Leggos bolognaise tomato, garlic and herbs.

7. You need 1 tbsp of chilli flakes.

8. It’s 2 tbsp of fresh oregano leaves.

Bistecca alla pizzaiola, or steak pizzaiola, was one of those dishes that looked complicated but couldn't be more simple to make.

It's perfect in its simplicity and serves a delicious primer to the rustic cooking of Naples where the dish is claimed to have its origin.

This is the basic recipe for the very popular italian BISTECCA ALLA PIZZAIOLA.

You can enrichen it with such other ingredients as chopped parsley (added a minute before serving) or a thin slice of mozzarella cheese as topping (added in the final stages of the preparation).

Bistecca Alla Pizzaiola instructions

1. Heat a large frying pan over high heat. Drizzle both sides of the steak with olive oil, spreading with your fingers and season well with the salt and pepper.

2. Cook the steaks on one side for a few minutes until brown, turn over and repeat and then remove steak from pan and set aside.

3. Add the wine into the hot pan stirring for 1 minute to reduce slightly. Stir in the pasta sauce, chilli flakes and oregano..

4. Place the steaks back into the pan, reduce the heat and cook for a further 5 minutes, turning once only..

5. Plate up steaks, smothering them in the sauce and serve with vegies and hot dinner rolls to mop the sauce up.

Got a request for this recipe and If you have not made my recipe for Steak Pizzaiola, give it a try, it is the original.

Use a inexpensive cut of meat because it will braise for a long time and become tender.

I've seen recipes that call for tomato sauce being poured over a steak and then add mozzarella, so not legit.

The dish goes by various names—manzo alla pizzaiola, fettine alla pizzaiola, bistecca alla pizzaiola—but, more often than not, simply 'la pizzaiola'.

There are two ways of making this dish, quick or slow, depending on the kind of meat you are using.