Steak & Rice with Creole Gravy

Series Summary

Creole cooking is a type of cuisine that originated in the great state of Louisiana, located in the heart of the Southern United States, its border just kissing the Gulf Coast to the south. Coming from a coastal area open to international trade, Creole food incorporates several different global influences. It brings together French, Spanish, Caribbean, and African ideas about taste, ingredients, and seasonings into one comprehensive cuisine. Similar to the other famous Louisiana food known as Cajun, Creole recipes are both rich and spicy. However, Creole dishes tend to focus on using more natural ingredients. They don’t rely as heavily on the Acadian influences as Cajun cooking does, but rather stick closer to classical European style recipes.

In these free Creole cooking classes on video, learn how to make a steak and rice recipe with a roux based gravy. Our expert Nawlins chef, Karl James, will walk you through this recipe step-by-step, with a list of ingredients needed, instructions on how to mix the seasonings, how to marinate the steak, how to peel and sweat the vegetables, how to make the roux, how to cook rice, and how to bring it all together and serve…with delicious results to follow!

Video Transcript

"Hi, my name is Karl James owner of Creolesoul Catering located in Round Rock, TX. On behalf of Expert Village I'm here to show you a steak and creole gravy recipe. Creole steak and gravy, well it's one of those recipes that I just kind of made up cause I had stuff at the house. Like a jambalaya where you have in your refrigerator this pretty much takes some steak and cut it up into pieces. You're going to brown those and then you're going to create a gravy using your holy trinity but basically we are going to use a mirepoix plus. You can put that together make a roux, create a gravy and put that steak back in let it simmer till the steak is tender and serve that rice, pasta, on toasted bread, French bread anyway my kids love this. I would do like say in a hurry sometimes I had steak in the freezer or we had made steak earlier that week and you cook that and cut it. Anyways like I say just like a jambalaya kind of thing so steak and creole gravy. Let's get started."