Cajun-Spiced Steak with Shrimp Dirty Rice
plus Roasted Green Beans & Dijon Pan Sauce
- Fish
- Shellfish
- Milk
Cue the brass band, because your taste buds are about to take a trip to the Big Easy! We’re talking about a lowcountry-style surf ’n’ turf: juicy, Cajun-spiced bavette steak and shrimp “dirty rice,” with sautéed onion and bell pepper plus seafood stock and Cajun spices. Add a side of simple salt-and-pepper roasted green beans and a creamy Dijon pan sauce to drizzle over the steak, and all that's left is perfecting your Hurricane cocktail...
Ingredients
6 ounce
Green Beans
1 unit
Green Bell Pepper
1 unit
Yellow Onion
¼ ounce
Parsley
½ cup
Jasmine Rice
2 unit
Seafood Stock Concentrate
(Contains: Fish, Shellfish)
10 ounce
Bavette Steak
1 tablespoon
Cajun Spice Blend
1 unit
Chicken Stock Concentrate
2 teaspoon
Dijon Mustard
3 tablespoon
Sour Cream
(Contains: Milk)
10 ounce
Shrimp
(Contains: Shellfish)
Not included in your delivery
Salt
Pepper
4 teaspoon
Cooking Oil
Nutrition Values
Utensils
Cooking Steps
• Adjust rack to top position and preheat oven to 425 degrees. Wash and dry produce. • Trim green beans if necessary. Core, deseed, and dice bell pepper into ½-inch pieces. Halve, peel, and dice onion into ½-inch pieces. Roughly chop parsley.
• In a small pot, combine rice, seafood stock concentrates, ¾ cup water, and a pinch of salt (use a medium pot and 1½ cups water for 4 servings). • Bring to a boil, then cover and reduce to a low simmer. Cook until rice is tender, 15-18 minutes. Keep covered off heat until ready to use in Step 6.
• While rice cooks, toss green beans on a baking sheet with a drizzle of oil, salt, and pepper. • Roast on top rack until tender and browned, 12-15 minutes.
• While green beans roast, pat steak* dry with paper towels and season generously all over with half the Cajun Spice Blend (you’ll use the rest later), salt, and pepper. • Heat a drizzle of oil in a large pan over medium-high heat. Add steak and cook to desired doneness, 5-7 minutes per side. Transfer to a cutting board and tent with foil until ready to serve. TIP: If steak is browning too quickly, lower heat and cover pan. • Let pan cool slightly.
• Return pan used for steak to medium heat; whisk in chicken stock concentrate, mustard, and 1⁄3 cup water (2⁄3 cup for 4 servings). • Bring to a simmer and cook, scraping up any browned bits from the bottom of the pan, until sauce has thickened, 1-2 minutes. • Remove from heat; whisk in sour cream until completely blended. Taste and season with salt and pepper if desired. Transfer to a small microwave-safe bowl. Wash out pan.
• Once rice is done cooking, rinse shrimp* under cold water, then pat dry with paper towels. Season all over with remaining Cajun Spice Blend, salt, and pepper. • Heat a large drizzle of oil in pan used for steak over high heat. Once pan is hot, add shrimp, bell pepper, and onion. Cook, stirring occasionally, until veggies are tender and shrimp are opaque and cooked through, 5-7 minutes. • Add cooked rice and parsley to pan and cook, stirring constantly, until everything is well combined, 1-2 minutes. (For 4 servings, cook shrimp and veggies in batches, then mix everything together in a large bowl.)
• Thinly slice steak against the grain. • Divide dirty rice, green beans, and steak between plates in separate sections. Top steak with pan sauce and serve. TIP: If needed, reheat sauce in the microwave for 30 seconds.
Steak is fully cooked when internal temperature reaches 145°. Shrimp are fully cooked when internal temperature reaches 145°.
Customer reviews
Review summary
Updated on Dec 2025- Flavor: Many loved the shrimp dirty rice, calling it "phenomenal" and "out of this world"; some found the Cajun spices flavorful.
- Ease of prep: Several noted it was more involved to prepare, with multiple steps and longer cooking times than expected.
- Suggestions: Consider searing or broiling the steak for a better crust; some preferred cooking veggies before adding shrimp.
- Portions: Generous servings, especially the shrimp; many felt the rice could be a meal on its own.
- Steak quality: Some found the steak tough or gristly; consider a more tender cut or different cooking method.
Reviews from our home cooks
Fantastic meal! Love the cajun flavors and the sauce over the steak. Dirty rice with shrimp was great with the mixed veggies. My only complaint is the amount of rice. The .75 oz. package of rice just isn't enough for two people, however the amount of everything else is good. For this meal I ended up adding another .25 oz. of rice, which made each dinner just right. If you could just make it an even 1 oz. package, it would be great. I do see that there is the option of getting the larger size meal which would include the 1 oz. rice, but it would overall be too much food. So I'm just recommending a bit more rice (and/or couscous). Thank you!
The dirty rice with shrimp was delicious! I did change the cooking instructions so that I cooked the onions and peppers first, then once they were done, I added the shrimp to cook. The recipe said to cook all three at once for a total of 7 to 9 minutes. This would've made the shrimp tough.
Ordered this to have for dinner on Mardi Gras. It was yummy and the shrimp dirty rice was a nice change to regular dirty rice. I ended up doing the steak in one pan and the veggies/shrimp & rice in a separate pan, so that everything could be done at the same time instead of steak having to sit out while the saute of rice ingredients were being prepared. I forgot to put the sour cream in the sauce and it was still really good.
Huge portions, could easily serve 3 adults. Love the dijon pan sauce. It would be good on pork also. Good amount of seasoning to split between steak and shrimp. 10 oz of shrimp is a lot could be less and still be plenty for 2 people. Nice job with this recipe!
The shrimp rice was the best part of this meal. Really fantastic. The sauce was also very good. I would love to have paired this with a different kind of steak, like a strip, but I understand that I'm limited to what Hello Fresh sources for their recipes. I'm pretty sure their steaks are all just various cuts from hanger. It's fine, though.
This is one of the best help fresh recipes we've had. The sauce for the steak was delicious. And the dirty rice was incredible. I would cook that by itself as a meal. We'll definitely get this one again.
Wow! This was great. The seafood broth was so flavorful. The dirty rice was a meal unto itself. I don't think it needed the steak and green beans at all.
This was the best dirty rice I have ever had!! If you like shrimp... you'll love this! Very unique with a spicy Cajun twist!
This was very tasty. The shrimp were very fresh and abundant. The Bavette steak was a bit of a disappointment. While the steak was tender, the awful irregularity in size and form was a challenge. One steak was very long and narrow, the other was the size of a silver dollar. Thankfully the other protein made up for the shortfall on one of the plates. We wouldn't repeat on this or any up charge meals in future.
I liked this dish overall. It was very delicious and I love the variety. It was kind of a surf and turf with nice green beans and rice to compliment the shrimp. The meat was not as firm as I would like. I may try searing it in the future or broiling it to give it a nice crust. Overall it is a good dish that I will order again.
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