Beef Tenderloin with a Three Chile Sauce with Goat Cheese
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5.0
12 reviews
Excellent
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Prep Time
20 mins
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Cook Time
1 hr
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Total Time
1 hr 20 mins
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Servings
4 servings
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Calories
1245 kcal
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Cuisine
Mexican
Beef Tenderloin with a Three Chile Sauce with Goat Cheese
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Querétaro style beef tenderloin served with a rich three chile sauce and cactus on the side. The sauce is prepared ancho, pasilla, and chipotle chile with the addition of tangy goat cheese.
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Ingredients
- 1 ½ lbs. beef tenderloin 4 fillets
- 4 ancho chiles
- 4 pasilla chiles
- 1 canned chipotle chile in adobo
- 4 tomatoes
- ½ white onion
- 2 cloves garlic
- 4 small cactus pads
- ½ cup heavy cream
- 5 ounces goat cheese
- 9 tbsp. cooking oil
- salt
- 4 French Rolls
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Instructions
- PREPARING THE SAUCE
- Remove the stems and seeds from the ancho and pasilla chiles. Reserve the chipotle chile.
- Roughly chop the onion.
- Peel and crush the garlic.
- Preheat 3 tablespoons of oil in a frying pan.
- Fry the onion and garlic over medium heat for 2 minutes.
- Add the tomatoes and dried chiles to the pan. Continue to cook over medium heat for 3 minutes. Do not add the chipotle yet.
- Add just enough water to barely cover the tomatoes, onion, and chiles. Reduce the heat to low and simmer for 15 minutes to reconstitute the chiles.
- Next, you will blend all of the base of the sauce until smooth. Add the tomatoes, onion, reconstituted chiles, and the chipotle in adobo to your blender. Blend in 2 batches.
- Strain the chile base with a medium strainer to remove the chile skins from the sauce.
- Preheat a large pot over high heat. Add 3 tablespoons of cooking oil to the pot. Pour the blended and strained chile base into the hot to fry it. Be careful because the oil may spatter.
- Once you have poured all the chile base is in the pot reduce the heat to low. Simmer 20 minutes.
- Add the goat cheese to the chile base and stir with a whisk until the cheese has fully incorporated.
- After the cheese is fully incorporated add the cream and stir with a whisk until the cream has fully incorporated.
- Simmer for 10 minutes stirring occasionally to thicken the sauce.
- After 10 minutes turn off the heat.
- COOKING THE CACTUS
- Add 2 tablespoons of cooking oil to a medium-hot pan. Cook both sides of the cactus for 3 minutes. The cactus is cooked when it has turned a darker green color and is starting to brown.
- COOKING THE BEEF
- Salt the beef well on both sides.
- Preheat your pan over high heat. Add 4 tablespoons of oil. Add all four fillets to the pan. When the fillets are nicely browned turn them over, about 3 minutes.
- Nicely brown the fillets on both sides.
- Remove the tenderloin fillets from the pan and let them rest for 3 minutes.
- PLATING THE DISH
- To each plate, add one cactus pad. Place 1 tenderloin fillet on the cactus pad.
- Pour about ½ cup of sauce over the fillet. Garnish with 1 teaspoon of crumbled goat cheese.
- Serve with a French roll.
Notes
- Substitutions
- If you don't care for the taste of goat cheese you can replace it with cream cheese which will give the sauce a very smooth rich taste.
- You can substitute corn tortillas for the French rolls.
- An alternative sauce which will give excellent results, red enchilada sauce.
Nutrition Information
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Calories
1245kcal
(62%)
Carbohydrates
58g
(19%)
Protein
48g
(96%)
Fat
94g
(145%)
Saturated Fat
30g
(150%)
Cholesterol
176mg
(59%)
Sodium
565mg
(24%)
Potassium
1719mg
(49%)
Fiber
15g
(60%)
Sugar
19g
(38%)
Vitamin A
13790IU
(276%)
Vitamin C
29.8mg
(33%)
Calcium
161mg
(16%)
Iron
9.1mg
(51%)
Nutrition Facts
Serving: 4servings
Amount Per Serving
Calories 1245 kcal
% Daily Value*
| Calories | 1245kcal | 62% |
| Carbohydrates | 58g | 19% |
| Protein | 48g | 96% |
| Fat | 94g | 145% |
| Saturated Fat | 30g | 150% |
| Cholesterol | 176mg | 59% |
| Sodium | 565mg | 24% |
| Potassium | 1719mg | 37% |
| Fiber | 15g | 60% |
| Sugar | 19g | 38% |
| Vitamin A | 13790IU | 276% |
| Vitamin C | 29.8mg | 33% |
| Calcium | 161mg | 16% |
| Iron | 9.1mg | 51% |
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet.
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