Licorice Smoked Steak

This was a bold experiment that I performed the other night. After eating pork and duck almost exclusively for 3 weeks I felt like a steak, but not any steak. A smoked one.

I smoked this in the oven using a couple of baking trays inside each other to separate the smoking mixture and the steak. Then wrapped the trays in aluminium foil to prevent the smoke from escaping.

The smoking mixture consisted of licorice tea, rice and brown sugar. Although aniseed would probably work better.

Score: 1 Chef
The process worked well but the texture of the steak was to soft. It really needs to be charred on a grill following the smoking. The licorice flavour transferred well to the steak but as expected could only be tasted on the outer surface. This is much more suited to thin pieces of meat.