Meal Deals: Sirloin Tip Steak with Pasta

Want to go out and eat at a restaurant but that's not in the budget? Chef David Pantone with the Florida Culinary Institute shows us how to make an expensive tasting Italian dinner on a shoe string budget. You can do it by taking a tough piece of meat like sirloin tip beef and cut it up into small pieces. You then cook the meat quickly to make it tender. Sirloin tip steak is $4.49 a pound which is still pretty inexpensive for a good piece of meat. With the addition of pasta and other ingredients this tasty meal is less than 2 dollars a serving.

Sirloin Tip Steak with Mini Farfallini Pasta

1 olive tablespoon oil

1 Sirloin Tip Steak, seasoned with salt, pepper, and garlic powder, cut into very thin slices

1 - 14 ounce can of beef stock

½ cup sour cream

1 pound mini farfallini pasta (mini bowties) (any pasta noodle will do fine) cooked and drained

2 tablespoons fresh basil, roughly chopped

Add oil to a large hot skillet. Add meat and quickly brown on all sides. Remove meat and reserve. Add stock$ to still hot pan. Bring to a boil. Lower heat to medium. Stir in sour cream, pasta, and basil. When it comes to a simmer, add meat. Cook just until all is hot. Serve immediately