Flame, marbling and a slick of garlic butter — the whole recipe fits on a beer coaster
Some cuts need help on the barbecue. The scotch fillet isn't one of them. All that fine marbling renders over the flame and bastes the steak as it cooks, so your only jobs are a properly hot grill, a confident sear and the patience to let it rest. The garlic butter takes three minutes to mash together and melts over the top while the steak sits. This is the best steak in the share cooked the easiest possible way — and it's done in 25 minutes, salad and all.
Ingredients
- 280g Your Farmer grass-fed scotch fillet steak
- 1 tbsp olive oil
- Salt and pepper to season
- 50g butter, softened
- 1 clove garlic, crushed
- 1 tbsp finely chopped parsley
- Squeeze of lemon juice
- Charred bread and a green salad, to serve
Instructions
Mash the softened butter with the garlic, parsley and lemon juice in a small bowl. Set aside — in the fridge if it's a hot day.
50g butter1 clove garlic1 tbsp parsleyPreheat the barbecue grill on high with the hood down for 10 minutes. Take the steak out of the fridge while it heats (optional, but it helps it cook evenly).
Pat the steak dry, rub it all over with the olive oil and season generously with salt and pepper.
280g scotch fillet1 tbsp olive oilGrill 3–4 minutes per side for medium-rare, turning once. If the fat causes a flare-up, just slide the steak to a cooler spot for a moment — don't panic, don't press it.
Rest the steak on a warm plate for 5 minutes with half the garlic butter melting over the top.
Slice against the grain, top with the remaining butter, and pour the buttery plate juices back over. Serve with charred bread and a green salad.
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Why Scotch Fillet Loves the Barbecue
Every steak behaves differently over flame, and the scotch is the one that behaves best. The fine ribbons of fat through the eye of the meat render as it cooks, basting the steak from within — so where a lean cut dries out the moment you're distracted by the kids or the cricket score, a scotch gives you a margin for error. That rendering fat is also why you'll get the odd flare-up: it's dripping flavour onto the flames. The move is simply to slide the steak to a cooler part of the grill for a few seconds and carry on. One tip from our own barbecue: 100% grass-fed steaks like the Your Farmer® scotch from a CSA beef share cook a little quicker than grain-fed supermarket steaks, so start checking at the three-minute mark. And preheat longer than feels necessary — a barely warm grill is why steaks stick, stew and turn grey instead of striping — there's a full rundown in our guide to getting grass-fed beef right.
Swaps and Variations
The garlic butter is a template. Add a chopped anchovy and it gets deeply savoury; swap the parsley for chives or tarragon; mash in a little smoked paprika or finely chopped chilli for warmth. The same butter is outstanding over the oyster blade from the share — that's the star of our BBQ steak night — and it works just as well melting over grilled lamb loin chops, which take the identical hot-grill-and-rest treatment.
Storage and Leftovers
The butter is the make-ahead hero here: roll any extra into a log in baking paper and it keeps a week in the fridge or three months in the freezer — slice discs straight off the frozen log onto hot steaks, chops, corn or baked potatoes. Leftover steak keeps 2 days in the fridge and is best used cold, sliced thin into a sandwich with a little of the garlic butter spread on the bread. If you must reheat it, do it gently — a low oven for a few minutes, never the microwave, which turns a medium-rare steak grey and sad.
Frequently asked questions
How do I stop flare-ups burning the steak?
How can I tell when it's medium-rare without cutting into it?
Hood up or hood down?
Can I make the garlic butter ahead?
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