Cooking Italy: Bisteca Fiorentine-T-Bone Steak, Florentine Style
Steak Fiorentine adapted from Marcella Hazan's Essentials of Classical Italian Cooking
Servings: 2
Ingredients
- A charcoal or wood burning grill I used a gas grillBlack peppercorns, ground very course or crushed with a pestle with a mortar
- 1 T-Bone steak 1 1/2” thick, brought to room temperature
- Coarse sea salt
- lightly crushed and peeled garlic clove
- Extra virgin olive oil
Instructions
- If grilling with charcoal, wait until you see a white ash. If grilling on gas grill, preheat 20 minutes ahead to high.
- Rub steak with peppercorns on both sides.
- Grill to desired wellness. Medium rare is about 5 minutes on one side, 3 on the other. As you turn steak, rub with garlic clove, including the bone, add salt. Do this on both sides.
- When steak is finished, drizzle with extra virgin olive oil.
- Allow steak to rest 10 minutes. Serve.