Homemade Filet Mignon

Filet mignon steak, cooked and served on a platter with asparagus, potatoes and garnishes.

If you dream of steakhouse quality filet mignon, you can cook an amazing steak at home without the hefty price tag. This recipe teaches you how to cook great filet mignon at home with added side dishes and a blue cheese sauce.

Course Main Course

Cuisine American

Keyword Filet Mignon, Steakhouse Filet Mignon at Home

Prep Time 10

Cook Time 10

Bake 8

Total Time 28

Servings servings

Calories 1367kcal

Author Sonila

Equipment

Ingredients

Filet Mignon

2 filet mignon steaks about 8 -10 ozs each
1 tbsp olive oil
1 tbsp peppercorn
0.5 tbsp sea salt
2 tbsps unsalted butter
1 rosemary twig (optional)

Blue Cheese Sauce

1 yellow onion, diced medium size, if it's large just dice half of an onion
4 tbsps butter
¾ cup blue cheese
1 cup blue cheese dressing

Asparagus

8 asparagus spears
pinch sea salt
pinch black pepper
3 lemon slices

Crispy Potatoes

24 ozs Dutch gold potatoes
0.5 tsp sea salt
0.25 tsp black pepper
0.5 tsp oregano
0.25 tsp paprika
1-2 tbsps olive oil

Instructions

Filet Mignon

Bring the steaks out of the refrigerator about 30 an hour before you'll start cooking them. Pat them dry on all sides with a paper towel. Brush olive oil on the steaks.
Grind sea salt and peppercorns, mix them and add them to a plate. Season steaks on all sides generously.
Heat cast iron skillet well for few minutes. If cast iron has a good seasoning, I don't add any oil otherwise maybe just a tablespoon of oil. Add steaks in and sear them for 2 minutes or so on each side. Don't move steaks around during those 2 minutes. Then flip.
While steaks are searing, start pre-heating the oven to 400 degrees F.
Once steaks are done searing, add 1 tbsp of butter over each of them. Brush a rosemary twig lightly over each steak and later place the twig on the skillet to release more aroma and flavor.
Place cast iron skillet with steaks on the oven, let cook until steaks reach 120 degrees internal temperature for rare or 125 - 130 for medium rare. See the temperature chart provided in the notes for correct doneness and use a meat thermometer for this. It took 8 minutes in the oven for my steaks to be ready but keep in mind that it might vary based on oven and steak thickness.
Once steaks are done, remove skillet from oven. Cover and let rest for about 10 minutes before serving. Serve with your favorite side dishes and enjoy your celebration:).

Blue Cheese Sauce

On a skillet add 4 tbsps of butter, once butter melts add diced onion. Cook until onion almost melts, it has to be translucent and tender. Add blue cheese crumbles and blue cheese dressing. Mix and simmer until sauce gets combined and blue cheese melts.

Asparagus

Steam asparagus spears after your chop off the dry tops. Steam them until you can pierce with a fork. Alternatively, you can boil them in water for a minute. Add them to cold ice water to stop the cooking process. Then season them with salt, pepper and lemon slices.

Crispy Potatoes

Rince Dutch gold potatoes then add them in a pot with hot water. Set the pot to boil and once potatoes boil for 10-15 minutes, remove from heat and drain on a colander. Once potatoes are cool to touch, slice them in half. Season with salt, pepper, paprika and oregano (add your favorite seasonings too). Add olive oil to cast iron skillet and cook the potatoes in the stovetop until they're crispy. Flip and cook them same way on the other side. Garnish with fresh parsley and serve as a side dish.

Notes

Please note that nutrition takes into account all the side dishes as well as the steak, plus a generous portion of the blue cheese sauce.
Weight and thickness of filet mignons might vary, so that will slightly change cooking time. Focus more on the temperature and look of the steak rather than the clock for this recipe.
Steak Temperature Chart -
- 120 degrees F for rare steaks
- 130 degrees F for medium rare
- 140 degrees F for medium
- 150 degrees F for medium well
- 160 degrees F for well done

Nutrition