My two favorite things about July 4th is watching the fireworks and grilling out in the backyard. Last year, I wrote about my favorite coffee burgers. This year, it’s a new coffee steak recipe that I perfected last weekend. I hope you like it, done right the steak has a woody flavor with just a hint of coffee. The best part is that it doesn’t require that much work so it won’t cut into your fireworks time.
Serves: 4 People
Prep Time: Five Minutes
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup dark roast medium or finely ground coffee beans
- 1/4 cup salt
- 1/4 cup black pepper
- 1/4 cup packed dark brown sugar
- vegetable oil
- 4 of your favorite cuts of steak for grilling
Instructions
First make the dry rub, by pouring the brown sugar, ground coffee, salt and pepper into a medium sized bowl. One big enough for the rub ingredients and a steak. Mix gently with a spoon until even.
Coat a steak with vegetable oil, then put it into the bowl with the coffee rub. Coat the steak evenly with the coffee rub.
Repeat the process until all of the steaks are coated with the coffee rub.
Grill based on the cut of the meat and your personal preferences. I suggest grilling it until it’s medium-rare.
Enjoy with a cold beer.
That’s my recipe, what’s your coffee influenced recipe that you’re going to be grilling up this weekend?
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mmmm coffee steak , that looks very good
Picture doesn’t do it justice. It tastes even better than it looks.
I’m fond of My Coffee Burger Recipie.http://www.caffination.com/recipes/coffee-burger/ I use the same rub for steaks, except i add two 2tablespoons of sugar to sear the steak. When doing the burgers the french onion soup is enough
I made a batch yesterday in fact. Might have to go steak for the weekend. Now you have me hungry again. Looks good!
French onion soup was always my “secret” ingredient, too. Guess it’s not too big of a secret.
I am always surprised that coffee grounds can taste great when you cook with them. These steaks are yummy!
Paul, thanks for sharing the recipe. You’re making me pretty hungry too. Right about now, I could go for some coffee burgers and I think I’ll have to try your recipe.
Yum! My birthday is tomorrow and I just may try these…
Happy early Birthday! I wouldn’t mind having one of these steaks for my birthday dinner later this year.
Dear Mike;
i’ve never coffeed my steak but in light of the fact that i’m a vegetarian, that might be understandable. however it sounds yummy and again i’d never eat it to find out. sorry.
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finally…to answer you; i will be sipping iced coffee from my work thermos and chilling (not grilling) my taste buds as it’s a really HOT 4th of July weekend.
you have a great one!
My brother has that same problem (joke)! At some point, I’m probably going to work with him to come up with some vegetarian recipes that include coffee.
I’m with you on the iced coffee, just brewed up some cold coffee over night and it’s keeping me caffeinated.
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