What’s better, steak or pasta? Can’t choose, so make BOTH. This delicious pasta dish gives you the best of both worlds. This recipe offers a fool-proof creamy pasta with steak cooked to perfection. Marry me pasta is a take on the classic Tuscan pasta that includes sundried tomatoes cream, cream and LOTS of Parmesan cheese of course!
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Why You’ll Love This Marry Me Steak Pasta
A twist on the viral trend of “Marry Me Chicken”, this recipe combines the iconic “Marry Me” sauce to coat your pasta. Then, topping it with a perfectly cooked steak of your choice. With just a few simple ingredients you’ll have a show stopping dish in under an hour! Looks fancy but it’s dish you can easily customize and add to your weekly meal rotation.
Here are few reasons why this will become your favorite pasta wrecipe:
Special – Perfect meal for a special occasion. Need to impress someone? It doesn’t get easier than this!
Customizable – You can customize different kinds of pasta or noodles. Also, use any kind of steak that is in your budget.
Exquisite – The flavor is out of this world. I don’t know which is better, the steak or pasta. Both flavors complement each other.
Best Combination – Many choose between steak & pasta. I choose both.
Key Ingredients You’ll Need
- Steak – The absolutely best cut to use for this meal is obviously a tender ribeye or filet. A more budget friendly option would be top sirloin. All in all, use a cut of meat that stays tender when cooked quickly on high heat.
- Garlic – Freshly chopped garlic is always a must in a good pasta dish.
- Sun dried tomatoes – The secret ingredient to any “marry me” pasta sauce is sun dried tomatoes. Both the oil and freshly chopped. It gives a different tomato based flavor.
- Heavy cream & Parmesan Cheese – Cream and Parmesan will make any pasta sauce into a creamy dream.
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- Season steaks
- Cook & baste steaks with butter
- Melt butter — sauté onion, garlic & sundried tomatoes
- Pour liquids — broth, cream. Season & sprinkle Parmesan.
- Garnish & serve
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Marry Me Steak Pasta
Ingredients
Steak
- 2 ribeyes
- salt and black pepper
- 1/2 tsp garlic powder
- 1/2 tsp onion powder
- 4 tbsp butter
- 3 unpeeled garlic cloves
Sauce
- 2 tbsp butter
- 1 tbsp sun dried tomato oil
- ½ onion dices
- 3-4 garlic cloves minced
- ⅓ cup sun dried tomatoes chopped
- ½ cup chicken broth
- 1 ½ cups heavy cream
- 1 tsp Italian seasoning
- ¼ tsp dried red pepper flakes
- ½ tsp paprika
- 1 tsp salt
- ¼ tsp black pepper
- ⅓ cup parmesan cheese
- 3 tbsp fresh parsley
- pasta of choice
Instructions
- Remove your steaks from the fridge about 30 min before cooking. Dry thoroughly with a paper towel and season well with my salt & pepper.
- On high heat, sear your steak on both sides. Press down in the first 15 seconds to make sure contact is being made.
- Melt butter and throw in unpeeled garlic.
- Constantly baste steaks with the butter, flipping every 30 seconds until it reaches internal temperature of about 120F. Remove from the pan and let it rest. It will come up to a perfect medium temp (135F).
- Wipe down the pan a bit and melt butter & some of that oil from the sun dried tomatoes.
- Sauté onion until softened then add garlic and chopped sun dried tomatoes until fragrant.
- Deglaze with chicken broth and once flavor is lifted off the bottom, pour in heavy cream. Season with all the seasonings listed. Shred Parmesan into the sauce.
- Add in your al dente pasta of choice, sliced steak & fresh parsley.
