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Mushroom Steak au poivre

This Steak Au Poivre is 100% WFPB as it is made with mushrooms and walnuts! Smoked Hickory salt and liquid smoke give it that grill flavor you expect from a steak.
Prep Time15 minutes
Cook Time30 minutes
Grill5 minutes
Total Time50 minutes
Servings: 4
Author: Snap Pea Sheep

Equipment

  • Grill pan
  • Skillet
  • Baking sheet
  • Spray bottle

Ingredients

  • 3 portobello mushrooms
  • 1/4 Cup walnuts
  • 3 Tbsp ground flax seed
  • 3 Tbsp Worcestershire sauce I use Wan-fu vegan Worcesterhire sauce
  • 1 Tbsp Hickory liquid smoke
  • 2 Tbsp Bourbon
  • 1/4 Tsp Smoke hickory Salt San Francisco Salt Company
  • 1/2 Tsp Garlic
  • 1 Tsp Mushroom Unami seasoning I used Trader Joe's
  • 1/2 Cup Flour Use wheat, buckwheat or almond flour
  • 1/4 Tsp Black pepper for patty mixture
  • 1 Tbsp Coarse ground black pepper
  • 10 Tbsp Worcestershire sauce in spray bottle Use to dampen steaks

Bourbon-Pepper gravy

  • 1 Cup Unsweetened plant milk I use So Delicious unsweetened coconut milk
  • 1/4 Cup Bourbon
  • 2 Tbsp Worcestershire Sauce
  • 1 1/2 Tbsp Flour
  • 1/4 Tsp Himalayan salt
  • 1/4 Tsp Black pepper To taste

Instructions

  • Mix together flax seed, Worcestershire sauce, liquid smoke, bourbon, hickory salt, garlic, mushroom seasoning in a bowl and allow flax seed to gel. (About 10 minutes).
  • Clean mushrooms and remove gills. Chop mushrooms and walnuts very fine.
  • Combine mushrooms and walnuts with flax mixture. Gradually sprinkle on flour to make a dough similar to play-dough.
  • Dust a cutting board lightly with flour and pat your mushroom mixture evenly to a 1/2' thickness. Form individual "steaks".
  • Sprinkle coarse black pepper on cutting board and carefully dredge both sides of each steak to coat them with pepper. Use more pepper if needed.
  • Place steaks on a baking sheet and bake at 350°F for 30 minutes.
  • Allow steaks to cool.

Bourbon-Pepper gravy

  • Place flour in skillet and brown slightly. Mix together the milk and bourbon and add to the hot skillet. Stir with a whisk to incorporate the flour and liquid.
  • Add seasoning and continue whisking until the gravy has thickened. Move gravy to a bowl or gravy boat.

Finish and serve

  • Use a spray bottle and spray steaks lightly with Worcestershire sauce - or spoon some over each steak. Re-warm steaks in a grill pan about 3 minutes on each side.
  • Spoon some steak sauce onto the plate. Add steak to plate then add another spoon of gravy on top.

Notes

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This is a Snap Pea Sheep recipe
This mixture can be shaped however you want.
I thought after making these how cook it would have been to cut "T-bones" out of parsnips or turnips and build the steak around it. The parsnip would bake and add a sweetness and touch of whimsy to the steaks. 
If you have an oven safe skillet, bake your steaks in the skillet and then use that skillet for gravy. 
Sheep Hack!
I keep spray bottles of Worcestershire, tamari, lemon juice, lime juice, water and vinegar so I can mist my food with liquid to keep it from drying out. 
The gravy could easily be made in a cooking blender. Mine is a Ninja but they don't make it anymore.  Pampered Chef has one though. The trick to gravy is to brown the flour before adding the liquid.