Name: Cowboy Steak
Ingredients: 1 rib-eye on the bone, about 750g; 80 ml apple cider vinegar; coarse salt and black pepper; 2 tablespoons molasses; 3 chillies, roughly chopped; 1 level tablespoon sweet paprika; juice of ½ lemon; ¼ cup orange juice; ¼ cup Worcestershire sauce; 80 g dark brown molasses sugar; 3 garlic cloves, roughly chopped; 1 cup tomato sauce; ¼ cup canola oil; 1 onion, coarsely chopped; homemade braai sauce (see below)

Preparation info

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

Reuben at Home

By Reuben Riffel

Published 2016

About

I have to hand it to the Americans – there are some things they really do exceptionally well. Like steaks. William, one of my chefs, and I once ate at one of the best steakhouses in New York, Peter Luger’s, where Frank Sinatra used to eat. We ordered a steak to share. It was about a kilogram, and once they’d put it on our plates they poured over the remaining fat. Pure and simple. And we thought that’s exactly how we imagined a cowboy steak to be – one that requires you to pick it up with y