Ostrich Steaks With Prawns And A Roasted Garlic Sauce

Total Time: 55 mins Preparation Time: 30 mins Cook Time: 25 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 4
• 4 ostrich steaks (250-300g each steak)
• 8 jumbo prawns
• 1 small red onion, chopped finely
• 1/2 cup dry wine
• 1 teaspoon chicken stock powder
• 15 -20 garlic cloves
• 1 cup cream
• 1/2 teaspoon cornflour
• pepper
• 500 -600 g mushrooms, chopped (a mixture swiss brown, oyster, shiitake, button etc.. whatever is available.)
• 2 tablespoons butter
• 1 garlic clove, crushed
• 2 tablespoons dry wine
• 1 1/2 tablespoons fresh thyme leaves
• 1 1/2 tablespoons fresh parsley, finely chopped

Recipe

• 1 place cloves of garlic in a roasting pan, still in skin and roast in 200c oven until browned and soft. (about 10-15 min's).
• 2 remove and set aside to cool.
• 3 mushrooms.
• 4 in a pan, melt butter, add garlic and mushrooms cook a few minutes to brown mushrooms, add wine and cook until liquid has evaporated, stir in parsley and thyme.
• 5 mushrooms can be made ahead and reheated in the microwave.
• 6 sauce.
• 7 heat a small amount of oil in pan, add onion and cook until soft. add wine and stock, stir to dissolve stock.
• 8 squeeze each garlic clove into sauce, they will be the consistency of a puree. (i prefer to do this, but i think you can buy already prepared roast garlic puree, not sure if it tastes the same.).
• 9 add cream and pepper, just before serving mix a little water with cornflour and add to sauce. this is only meant to thicken slightly it is not supposed to be a really thick sauce.
• 10 serve over ostrich.
• 11 ostrich steaks.
• 12 bbq, grill or pan fry steaks until desired doneness, ostrich is a very lean meat and toughens when overcooked. it is better cooked medium rare, but if you prefer your meat a little more done do not cook more than absolutely necessary as it will be like eating leather.
• 13 while the steaks are cooking heat some oil in a separate pan and cook prawns until pink and cooked through.
• 14 to serve: spoon mushrooms onto plate to form a base, place steaks on top and then top with prawns and drizzle with sauce.
• 15 i topped mine with asparagus spears as well, if you want to make these they are very easy.
• 16 i buy baby asparagus and use 5 spears per roll, wrap these with a piece of bacon and place in an oven proof dish drizzle with olive oil, add a couple of garlic cloves to pan and cook in 180c oven until bacon is cooked and asparagus tender, about 10-15 min's.