Pepper-Crusted Filet Mignon

Name: Pepper-Crusted Filet Mignon
Yield: Serves 4
Ingredients: 5 tablespoons, black peppercorns, cracked (see illustration below); 5 tablespoons, olive oil, plus 2 teaspoons; 1 tablespoon, kosher salt; 4 , center-cut filets mignons, 1 1/2 to 2 inches thick, 7 to 8 ounces each, trimmed of fat and silver skin

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Valentines Day

Appears in Cook's Illustrated March/April 2006, America's Test Kitchen TV

Black peppercorns bring a welcome flavor boost—but also a punishing blast of heat--to this mild-tasting cut. Could we lose the pain without giving up the flavor?

SERVES 4

TIME 1 hour, plus 1 hour standing

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