Red Wine-Mushroom Pan Sauce

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Appears in Cook's Illustrated May/June 2007, America's Test Kitchen TV

    

A quick sauce to accompany pan-seared steak.

SERVES 4 (Makes about 1 cup)

TIME 30 minutes

Red Wine-Mushroom Pan Sauce

WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

The key to our ideal pan-seared steak recipe was to start the steaks in a cool oven and then to sear them. And by searing the steaks quickly, we kept the meat directly under the crust from turning gray. Cooked this way, the steaks developed...

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