While Richard Wentworth, a sometime Goldsmiths godfather to the YBAs, likes his work to subvert the function of the mundane object, his bife ana is pretty much just spicy pork in a bun. In this instance, he hasn’t even nailed it to a shoe or dangled it from a coat rack. Here’s how to make it.
Ingredients
500g rump steak, thinly sliced
2 large crusty rolls
2 tbps olive oil
Cos lettuce leaves
Salt
For the marinade:
1 onion, thinly sliced
1 garlic clove, chopped
1 small dried chilli, crushed
1 bay leaf, broken up
1 tbsp chopped parsley
1 tsp dried oregano
2 tbsp red wine
3 tbsp olive oil
freshly ground black pepper
Method
Mix together all the ingredients for the marinade, add the steak and leave to marinate for a few hours (but no longer than 8 hours). Remove the steaks from the marinade, then strain it and set aside.
Warm the rolls in a medium oven. Heat a heavy-based frying pan until very, very hot, then add the olive oil and fry the steaks very quickly. If your pan is hot enough, they will need to be turned within a minute. Remove the steaks and keep warm, then add the dry ingredients from the marinade to the pan with some salt.
Cut the rolls in half and arrange the cos lettuce and then the steaks on the lower halves. Add the strained marinade liquid to the pan and let this bubble and reduce a little, then pour into the top halves of the rolls. Close the sandwiches and eat immediately, with both hands.