Beef Tenderloins With French Onion Sauce

Total Time: 40 mins Preparation Time: 10 mins Cook Time: 30 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 4
• 2 teaspoons butter, divided
• 2 cups onions, thinly sliced
• 3 cups button mushrooms, halved (caps only)
• 2/3 cup water
• 1 (10 1/2 ounce) can beef consomme
• 1 teaspoon dried thyme
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 1/4 teaspoon black pepper, coarsely ground
• 1/8 teaspoon garlic powder
• 4 (4 ounce) beef tenderloin steaks (1 inch thick)
• 1/2 cup dry red wine
• 4 (1 ounce) french bread, sliced and toasted

Recipe

• 1 melt 1 tsp butter in a large skillet over medium-high heat.
• 2 add onion and mushrooms; saute 5 minutes, stirring frequently.
• 3 stir in water and consomme, scraping pan to loosen browned bits.
• 4 bring to a boil; cover and cook 10 minutes.
• 5 remove onion mixture from pan.
• 6 combine thyme, salt, pepper, and garlic powder.
• 7 rub the thyme mixture over steaks.
• 8 melt 1 tsp butter in pan over medium-high heat.
• 9 add steaks; cook 3 minutes on each side or until browned.
• 10 remove steaks from pan; keep warm.
• 11 add wine to pan, scraping pan to loosen browned bits.
• 12 stir in onion mixture; bring to a boil, and cook 1 minute.
• 13 return steaks to pan; simmer 1-2 minutes.
• 14 place one toast slice in each of 4 shallow serving bowls, and top each slice with steak.
• 15 spoon the onion mixture over each serving.
• 16 serve immediately.