{"id":97470,"date":"2015-08-21T12:30:00","date_gmt":"2015-08-21T10:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/?p=97470"},"modified":"2015-08-21T12:30:00","modified_gmt":"2015-08-21T10:30:00","slug":"thirty-minute-meals-sliced-steak-blts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/lifestyle-news\/2015\/08\/21\/thirty-minute-meals-sliced-steak-blts\/","title":{"rendered":"Thirty-minute meals: sliced steak BLTs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Try this easy and delicious meal this weekend.<\/p>\n<p><b>You will need:<\/b><br \/>\n* 12 slices smoky bacon.<br \/>\n* 600 grams steak, at room temperature.<br \/>\n* Steak seasoning (optional).<br \/>\n* Coarse salt and pepper.<br \/>\n* A third of a cup extra virgin olive oil, plus more for drizzling.<br \/>\n* Four jalapeno chillies, seeded.<br \/>\n* A quarter red onion, coarsely chopped.<br \/>\n* Two large garlic cloves.<br \/>\n* One cup loosely packed cilantro.<br \/>\n* One cup loosely packed flat-leaf parsley.<br \/>\n* Two to three sprigs oregano, or one teaspoon dried.<br \/>\n* One lime, juiced.<br \/>\n* Two tablespoons vinegar.<br \/>\n* Eight slices whole wheat or white bread, toasted.<br \/>\n* One bunch watercress, stemmed.<br \/>\n* One large tomato, thickly sliced.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p><b>What to do:<\/b><br \/>\nPreheat the oven to 190 degrees Celsius. Arrange the bacon on a baking pan and bake until crisp, 15 to 18 minutes.<br \/>\nMeanwhile, preheat a cast-iron pan over medium-high heat. Season the steak with the steak seasoning, if using, otherwise, use coarse salt and pepper, and drizzle with a little oil. Grill the meat, turning once, for eight minutes for medium-rare. Remove from the heat and let rest, then thinly slice at an angle against the grain.<br \/>\nUsing a food processor, pulse the third of a cup oil, the chillies, onion, garlic, cilantro, parsley, oregano, lime juice and vinegar into a chimichurri sauce. Season with salt and pepper.<br \/>\nTo serve, arrange the sliced steak on the toast. Top with the watercress, bacon, tomato, lots of chimichurri and the remaining toast.<\/p>\n<div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-below-post-content\">\n<div class='tenancy_slot tenancy_slot_1 jannah_ad' style='display: none;' data-query-id='0c4f54575c69e0c77105be10f0499deb'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is there anything better than a steak on the weekend? Of course there is, a steak that can be made in less than 30 minutes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":97474,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3686,8097],"tags":[7794,8258,8259,7796,7989],"class_list":["post-97470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle-news","category-lifestyle-and-health","tag-30-minute-meals","tag-blt","tag-eay-cooking","tag-recipe","tag-steak"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"Lifestyle","SubCategory":"Lifestyle and Health"},"tag_labels":["30-minute meals","BLT","eay cooking","recipe","steak"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97470\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/97474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}