Spice-Rubbed Flank Steak with Spicy Peach-Bourbon Sauce

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Photography: Becky Luigart-Stayner; Styling: Lydia DeGaris-Pursell
Yield
8 servings (serving size: 3 ounces steak and about 2 tablespoons sauce)
May 2003
RECIPE BY Cooking Light

Canned peach nectar, near the bottled fruit juices in the grocery, is the base for a slightly sweet sauce that pairs well with highly seasoned beef. You can make and refrigerate the sauce up to a day ahead; bring it to room temperature just before serving.

Ingredients

  • Sauce:
  • 1 teaspoon vegetable oil
  • 3/4 cup chopped Vidalia or other sweet onion
  • 2 garlic cloves, minced
  • 1 1/2 cups peach nectar
  • 3 tablespoons brown sugar
  • 2 tablespoons cider vinegar
  • 3 tablespoons bourbon
  • 2 tablespoons ketchup
  • 1 1/2 teaspoons Worcestershire sauce
  • 1/2 teaspoon crushed red pepper
  • 1 tablespoon fresh lime juice
  • Steak:
  • 1 tablespoon brown sugar
  • 1 1/4 teaspoons garlic powder
  • 1 1/4 teaspoons ground cumin
  • 1 teaspoon salt
  • 1 teaspoon ground coriander
  • 1 teaspoon paprika
  • 3/4 teaspoon dry mustard
  • 3/4 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
  • 2 (1-pound) flank steaks, trimmed
  • Cooking spray

Nutritional Information

  • Calories 265
  • Caloriesfromfat 32%
  • Fat 9.5g
  • Satfat 3.8g
  • Monofat 3.6g
  • Polyfat 0.7g
  • Protein 23.8g
  • Carbohydrate 17.4g
  • Fiber 1.1g
  • Cholesterol 57mg
  • Iron 2.9mg
  • Sodium 425mg
  • Calcium 28mg

How to Make It

Step 1

To prepare sauce, heat oil in a medium saucepan over medium-high heat. Add onion and garlic; saute 5 minutes or until tender. Add nectar, 3 tablespoons sugar, and vinegar. Bring to a boil; cook until reduced to 1 cup (about 15 minutes). Add bourbon, ketchup, Worcestershire, and red pepper; cook over medium heat 2 minutes, stirring occasionally. Remove from heat, and stir in the lime juice. Cool slightly. Pour the sauce into a blender, and process until smooth.

Step 2

Prepare grill.

Step 3

To prepare steak, combine 1 tablespoon sugar and next 7 ingredients (1 tablespoon sugar through black pepper); rub over both sides of steak. Place steak on grill rack coated with cooking spray; grill 7 minutes on each side or until desired degree of doneness. Cut steak diagonally across grain into thin slices. Serve with sauce.

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Ratings & Reviews

gatsby2's Review

aneresRN
March 01, 2015
SO good! It's really difficult though, not to just eat the sauce with a spoon. It would be worth making a lot of a sauce to can for gifts. Thinking about doing that. Anyway, love this recipe.

karenfar's Review

jjjamstou2
November 10, 2014
This is good but not the WOW from reading all the reviews. The sauce just wasn't that special. Maybe fatten it up with a hunk of butter!! I bought a 1-pound rib eye instead of flank steak and there was enough leftover for another serving.

Luvtotry's Review

Ashwii
August 25, 2014
Delicious! Sauce is outstanding

Ashwii's Review

carolfitz
January 17, 2014
This was amazing. I have never cooked steak before and on top of that I broiled the steak instead of using a grill and it came out perfectly! Delicious and flavorful! Definitely recommend this !

carolfitz's Review

kkparsons
September 09, 2013
4 stars for the sauce, definitely great with bbq pork or chicken too. Made all to recipe, subbing trimmed boneless ribeyes for flank steak & put rub on dry steaks about 90min prior to grilling. Served sliced with skewered grilled potato wedges and CL's peach lemonade. Excellent.

H2OQueen's Review

karenfar
January 31, 2013
Great recipe for the grill! Super easy and delicious. I would make half as much sauce - it was very good with a big kick, but just way too much.

JenRaj's Review

runnergirl262
November 07, 2012
I have used this on beef and pork and it is awesome!! Sometimes I just make the sauce. Yummmm!

jjjamstou2's Review

H2OQueen
August 14, 2012
Had a few peaches in the house & decided to try this recipe before realizing it didn't actually use peaches! Found the peach nectar at the store, but also grilled a couple peaches to have on the side. I would rate this five stars but my grocer did not have any flank steaks and so I tried some other thin cut steak but it got a little overdone. I made the rub and sauce exactly as specified, except I didn't have bourbon & used Crown Royal instead. The rub was very good but the sauce was just excellent. A little time consuming for only a main dish of the meal, but worth it! I will definitely try this again with a different cut of meat.

Chipper3's Review

gatsby2
January 20, 2012
This is DEFINITELY on our "we'll make this again" list as well as our "worthy of company" list! :) Delicious!!!!

srwfromorange's Review

Chipper3
August 09, 2010
We made this entire menu for our 20th wedding Anniversary & this dish had our highest expectations & delivered our lowest. We thought both the sauce & the rub were kinda weak. Maybe because the chicken was soooooo good. However, we marinated more meat than we needed last nite & have a steak leftover to cook tonite, we'll see if it's better on it' s own.