Striker Chef's Hanwoo Sirloin Steak with Truffle Sour Cream Sauce
The combination of thick-cut Hanwoo beef sirloin with rich juices and marbling, balanced by a refreshing special truffle sauce that cuts through the richness.
🙋 Recommended for
- ⭐ For those who want to recreate fine dining-level steaks at home for anniversaries or year-end home parties.
- ⭐ For those who want a luxurious special sauce that enhances the meat's flavor instead of a typical steak sauce.
Hanwoo sirloinSaltWhole black pepperButterGarlicOnionHeavy creamTruffle oilSour cream
Ingredients needed 🛒3 servings
- 1 piece Hanwoo top-grade sirloin (5-6cm thick)
- Salt, as needed
- Whole black pepper (crushed), generous amount
- 50g butter
- 10 cloves garlic
- 1/2 onion
- 1 paper cup heavy cream
- 1 tablespoon truffle oil
- 2 tablespoons sour cream
Recipe 🍳
- Trim the thick Hanwoo sirloin by cleanly cutting off the silver skin and excess external fat with a knife.
- Since the meat has excellent marbling, generously sprinkle salt on all sides until the surface turns white, for a tight seasoning base.
- Place the meat in a heavily heated pan and sear all sides vigorously to create a hard crust.
- Once the surface searing is done, coat the meat generously with coarsely crushed whole black pepper to form a pepper crust.
- Add butter and whole garlic cloves to the pan, and continuously baste the meat with the melted butter using a spoon (arroser) until cooked to desired doneness, then remove and rest.
- Remove half the oil from the pan used to cook the meat, add minced onion and a pinch of salt, and sauté until browned and deeply sweet.
- Pour in enough heavy cream to barely cover, boil for 1 minute until thickened, then add truffle oil for its distinctive aroma.
- Turn off the heat completely or set to very low, add 2 tablespoons sour cream, and mix well to finish a tangy and rich special sauce.
- Slice the rested steak into thick, serving-sized pieces, and serve with the roasted garlic and truffle sour cream sauce.
- Trim unnecessary sinew from the sirloin and generously sprinkle salt on all sides.
- Sear all sides of the meat strongly in a pan until the surface is crispy.
- Coat thickly with whole black pepper, add butter and garlic, baste while cooking, then rest.
- In the pan used for the meat, mix onion, heavy cream, truffle oil, and sour cream to make the sauce.
Cooking tips 💡
- For fatty meat like top-grade Hanwoo, you need to add salt until it seems excessive to cover the greasiness of the fat and ensure the seasoning penetrates evenly.
- If you add pepper from the start and cook at high heat, it will burn black and create a burnt, bitter taste. Be sure to coat with pepper only after the initial searing is done.
- Sour cream can separate and curdle if boiled for too long over high heat, so add it at the final stage, turn off the heat, and mix using residual heat.





