Fenugreek Spiced Beef Tenderloin Recipe

Dry age tenderloin slices, after marinating, are combined with gnocchi, a potato and semolina-based Italian ravioli, under the signature of “Naif” in Karaköy.

The texture of the meat and the smell of fenugreek butter will seduce you. You can make room in your kitchen for the tips and fenugreek butter recipe in this recipe, which is quite difficult to make.

Photo: Zeynep Turanlı

How to Make Fenugreek Spiced Beef Tenderloin Recipe?

• To prepare the fenugreek butter that you will use to cook the tenderloin; Mix the butter that you have kept at room temperature with very small chopped mushrooms, chives, parsley, dried tomatoes, garlic and fenugreek. Wrap it in stretch film or aluminum foil and freeze it in roll form.
• To prepare gnocchi; Wrap the potatoes in aluminum foil. Bake in a preheated 200 degree oven until it softens. After they cool down, remove them from the foil and peel them.
• Mash the baked potatoes with the help of a masher. Prepare the dough by adding semolina and parmesan cheese little by little.
• Prepare rolls by tearing egg-sized pieces from the kneaded dough. Place these rolls on a tray that fits in the refrigerator, cover them with stretch film and let them rest in the refrigerator for about 30 minutes.
• Slice the dough rolls that you have rested until you will use them to serve this dish, and roll them in your hands. Then create light notches on it by pressing it with a fork.
• Boil plenty of salted water in a large pot. Throw your gnocchi into boiling water. Boil it for about 2 minutes until it softens and drain the water.
• Saute the boiled gnocchi in fenugreek butter. Add hot chicken broth little by little and let it thicken.
• Bring the meat that you have kept in the refrigerator for two days in a marinade with freshly ground black pepper, sunflower oil and fresh thyme, to room temperature.
• Heat up your lava stone grill or cast iron pan. Sear both sides of the tenderloin slices over high heat.
• Add the fried tenderloin slices and a slice of the fenugreek butter you prepared and continue cooking in the oven for 30-50 seconds, depending on your taste.
• Again, serve the gnocchi, sautéed in fenugreek butter and thickened with chicken broth, hot with tenderloin slices without waiting.