Name: Raw dressed beef fillet with green olives & walnuts
Yield: Serves 4
Ingredients: a pinch of dried chile flakes; flaked sea salt and black pepper; ½ medium unwaxed lemon; 8 good-quality walnuts, halved; leaves from 2 sprigs of marjoram; 1 dessertspoon walnut oil; 175 g beef fillet, trimmed; 1 dessertspoon olive oil; 10 good green olives, pitted and roughly chopped

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

The Good Table

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