Meet Arlene Keith, chef de cuisine at Edi & the Wolf
The seasoned chef shares her incredible recipe for rib-eye steak
Arlene Keith dropped out of culinary school after three months. But it hasn’t stopped the 30-year-old from working, in her words, “all over New York,” including at impressive kitchens such as Momofuku Noodle Bar and Eleven Madison Park.
Today, the self-taught Keith is chef de cuisine of Edi & the Wolf, an Austrian restaurant in Manhattan’s East Village. Raised in Queens, where she still lives, Keith began cooking when she was nine years old. “My family is very old-school,” she says. “The women learn to cook when they’re young.” By her own admission, she has come a long way from the rice and beans of her childhood, and for Sous Chef Series, she prepared a pan-seared rib-eye steak with goat-cheese potatoes.
Rib-Eye Steak with Goat-Cheese Potatoes and Portobello Mushrooms
Yield: Serves 2
Cook Time:
1 hour, 10 minutes
- INGREDIENTS
Serves 2
Potatoes
3 medium red potatoes, cut into 1-inch pieces
¾ cup heavy cream
2 small garlic cloves
½ large shallot, halved and thinly sliced lengthwise
1 thyme sprig
1 small bay leaf
1 teaspoon black peppercorns
1 tablespoon unsalted butter
1 tablespoon all-purpose flour
⅓ cup chicken broth
3 ounces (about ½ cup) fresh goat cheese
Sea salt
1 teaspoon fresh lemon juice
3 tablespoons finely chopped dill
3 tablespoons finely chopped flat-leaf parsley
Mushrooms
2 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil
1 large portobello mushroom, stemmed and chopped
1 tablespoon white wine
1 tablespoon unsalted butter
Sea salt
Freshly ground black pepper
Steak
3 tablespoons freshly ground mixed peppercorns (or 3 tablespoons black peppercorns)
1 teaspoon sea salt
One 8-ounce rib-eye steak
2 tablespoons grapeseed oil
2 tablespoons unsalted butter
4 garlic cloves
3 thyme sprigs
1 rosemary sprig
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