Serious Eats: Recipes
Black and Orange: Black Pepper-Crusted Sliced Steak with Crème Fraîche Sweet Potato Mash
[Photograph: Kerry Saretsky]
For a Halloween main course, I love this spicy black steak with sweet orange mash. The steak is done simply—just crusted in black pepper, and seared to medium-rare, then sliced. The mash, mixed from russet potatoes and sweet potatoes, is sweet but tangy from the crème fraîche. The sweet-spicy contrast is as perfect as the colors.