Raw dressed beef fillet with green olives & walnuts

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Preparation info
  • Serves

    4

    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
The Good Table: Adventures In and Around My Kitchen

By Valentine Warner

Published 2013

  • About

I’m a huge fan of raw beef and this is one of my favourite preparations. Quick to prepare, it makes an excellent starter for guests.

Ingredients

  • 175 g beef fillet, trimmed
  • 10 good green olives, pitted and roughly chopped
  • 8 good-quality wal

Method

Cut the beef in slices approximately 5mm wide and lay a few between two large sheets of baking paper. Beat out each slice paper-thin (about 1mm) with a rolling pin. Gently peel each slice from the paper and lay the slices over one large plate, or as four single servings.

Scatter the olives over the beef followed by the walnuts. Finely grate over the zest of the lemon half. Squeeze over