Seared Steak with Demi Reduction
served with Garlic Mashed Potatoes & Honey-Roasted Carrots
- Milk
Hankering for a plate of good ol’ steak and potatoes? We’ve got what you need and then some! Yep, our chefs have officially perfected the classic pairing. There’s creamy garlic mashed potatoes, roasted carrots tossed with honey, and perfectly seared steak (of course). And on top? Beef demi-glace, scallions, and sour cream mingle to create a rich and savory elixir you’ll want to drizzle over everything. And now you can!
Ingredients
12 ounce
Carrot
12 ounce
Potatoes
6 tablespoon
Sour Cream
10 ounce
Ranch Steak
1 unit
Beef Demi-Glace
(Contains: Milk)
2 teaspoon
Honey
1 clove
Garlic
2 unit
Scallions
Not included in your delivery
1 tablespoon (tbsp)
Olive Oil
2 tablespoon (tbsp)
Butter
(Contains: Milk)
teaspoon (tsp)
Black Pepper
teaspoon (tsp)
Salt
Nutrition Values
Utensils
Cooking Steps
• Adjust rack to top position and preheat oven to 425 degrees. Wash and dry all produce. • Trim, peel, and cut carrots on a diagonal into ½-inch-thick pieces. Dice potatoes into ½-inch pieces. Peel and mince or grate garlic. Trim and thinly slice scallions, separating whites from greens.
• Toss carrots on a baking sheet with a large drizzle of olive oil. Season generously with salt and pepper. • Roast on top rack until tender and golden brown at edges, 20-25 minutes. • Drizzle with honey; carefully toss to coat.
• Meanwhile, place potatoes in a large pot with enough salted water to cover by 2 inches. Bring to a boil; cook until tender, 15-20 minutes. Reserve ½ cup potato cooking liquid; drain. • Melt 1 TBSP butter (2 TBSP for 4 servings) in empty pot over medium heat. Add garlic; cook until fragrant, 1 minute. • Return drained potatoes to pot; mash with 2 packets sour cream (4 packets for 4) until smooth and creamy, adding splashes of reserved potato cooking liquid as needed. (You’ll use the rest of the sour cream later.) Season with salt and pepper. • Keep covered off heat until ready to serve.
• While potatoes cook, pat steak* dry with paper towels. Season with salt and pepper. • Heat a drizzle of olive oil in a large pan over medium-high heat. Add steak and cook to desired doneness, 3-6 minutes per side. • Turn off heat; transfer to a cutting board to rest for 5 minutes. Wash out pan.
• Melt 1 TBSP butter (2 TBSP for 4 servings) in pan used for steak over medium heat. Add scallion whites; cook until softened, 1-2 minutes. • Stir in demi-glace, 2 TBSP water (4 TBSP for 4), and any resting juices from steak; bring to a simmer, 1 minute. • Turn off heat; stir in remaining sour cream. Taste and season with pepper.
• Slice steak against the grain. • Divide steak, mashed potatoes, and carrots between plates. Spoon sauce over steak and potatoes. Sprinkle with scallion greens and serve.
Customer reviews
Review summary
Updated on Sep 2026- Flavor: The demi-glace sauce is a standout — rich, savory, and delicious drizzled over both the steak and mashed potatoes. The honey-roasted carrots won over even self-proclaimed carrot skeptics, and the garlic mashed potatoes earned consistent praise.
- Ease of prep: Most found this a straightforward cook; a few noted it takes slightly longer than expected given the multiple components running simultaneously.
- Suggestions: The sauce can run salty — skip adding extra salt and taste before seasoning. Some found the demi-glace too sweet or too intense; reduce it a little longer or stir in extra butter or a splash of water to mellow the flavor. If your steaks are uneven in thickness, sear the thicker piece first or cut it down for more even cooking.
- Leftovers: Kids reportedly dipped everything in the leftover sauce the next day — save it if you can 🍲.
- Steak: Many reviewers noted the ranch steak can be tough, gristly, or unevenly cut, making it hard to cook evenly; tenderizing before searing and slicing thinly against the grain helps significantly.
Reviews from our home cooks
This recipe was easy to prepare. I usually grill steaks but this recipe for the pan seared steak with demi reduction was delicious! Roasted carrots with drizzled honey brings out the sweetness of this vegetable. Our favorite mashed potatoes to make.
The Demi Reduction was fabulous on the steak and the potatoes were just the right amount of garlicky flavor and the carrots with the honey were fantastic!
This was the best steak recipe, but the cut of steak was a little tough. The demi reduction was incredible, super flavorable. I loved the honey with the carrots, and the potatoes were fabulous.
The uneven cuts of steak made this harder to cook (and gauge cooking times) than necessary. The flavor was good, but the demi reduction was very salty and didn't add much to the dish. The honey glazed carrots were delicious, and a surprising hit with my family.
The Demi Reduction was amazing and the flavor was so good with the steak. I decided to skip the honey on the carrots and added spice to the carrots instead which in my opinion was more enjoyable.
The steak was a bit fatty but still deliciously tender. The carrots were scrumptious with the demi reduction steak sauce & potatoes mixed!
Delicious! My 14-year-old daughter wanted to learn how to cook and with the easy to follow recipes provided by hello fresh I now come home to a meal cooked and served perfectly by my 14-year-old daughter who is new to cooking! Seared steak with Demi reduction was the first meal she ever cooked and it came out perfect😋
I was worried about the steak, because I come from a cattle family, but it was amazing! The demi reduction sauce was even better! If you have kids either roast the garlic for the potato mash or leave it out. The bite of the garlic was overwhelming for their palette, even though they usually love garlic. They each ate one whole steak!
The demi-reduction sauce of this recipe was delicious. The honey roasted carrots were a bit too sweet for me, so I'd add less next time, but still a tasty way to prepare carrots.
Beef is tender and delicious !! And the demi reduction is incredible !! I used it on the potatoes as well as the meat- had never tasted honey carrots but now they are a favorite
