Pan Seared Beef Filet with Feta Cheese and Blackberry Chocolate Port Sauce
A beef filet with feta cheese, covered in blackberry chocolate port sauce.
Ingredients
1-½ cups crumbled feta cheese
⅓ cup fresh Italian parsley chopped
6 (6 oz. each) beef filet
salt and ground black pepper to taste
3 tbsp. olive oil
2 cups frozen DOLE Blackberries
1-½ tbsp. packed brown sugar
1-½ cups chocolate port
additional berries for garnish partially thawed
Directions
- Mix together feta cheese and parsley in medium bowl. Set aside 1/3 cup mixture for garnish.
- Slice a slit large enough to stuff with cheese filling on one side of each filet (the skin or the smaller side). Season with salt and pepper, if desired.
- Heat olive oil in large skillet and sear fillets on both sides until well browned (do in 2 batches if necessary); set aside. Save drippings and oil in skillet for sauce. Set skillet aside.
- Carefully stuff filets with cheese mixture and place stuffing side up in baking pan just large enough to hold them.
- Bake at 400 F. 10 to 15 minutes, depending desired degree of doneness.
- Thaw and heat blackberries in microwave oven 2 to 3 minutes. Push blackberries through fine mesh strainer with back of spoon; discard seeds. Stir in brown sugar.
- Heat skillet with pan juices over high heat. Add chocolate port and reduce by half. Add berry puree and reduce by half again until somewhat syrupy.
- Spoon berry sauce over each filet to serve and garnish each with remaining cheese mixture and additional berries.