Cranberry Cream Cheese Stuffed Flank Steak

How does cranberry cream cheese stuffed flank steak sound as a Christmas dinner dish? Doesn’t the sound of this recipe make your mouth begin to water? It’s such a great recipe for stuffed flank steak and works well as a New Year, Thanksgiving or Christmas steak recipe when you want something both fancy and tasty. It is so easy to Stuff and roll a butterflied flank steak, so don’t be intimidated.

Cooking flank steak is a great idea for the holidays. This extra-special recipe for flank steak includes a rich, creamy filling plus cranberries for a contrasting flavour. So consider adding this easy recipe for steak rolls to your Christmas menu.

More festive feasts include holiday beef wellington, holiday roasted chicken, Christmas deviled eggs, and mulled wine fireball shots.

Cranberry Cream Cheese Stuffed Flank Steak Ingredients

Festive flank steak pinwheels are straightforward to prepare and the ingredients should all be easy to find. You will need about 2½ pounds of meat for six servings. I’d recommend still making this amount even if you’re cooking for four, since leftovers keep well and are a delicious treat to enjoy later in the week.

The cranberry filling for the steak roll ups is a combination of cranberries, rosemary, shallot, walnuts, blue cheese, cream cheese, and black pepper.

The other ingredients you need are cranberry jelly, balsamic vinegar, onion, and garlic. Since the flank steak pinwheels are started on the stove and finished in the oven, you will also want to use a cast iron skillet to make it.

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How to Make Cream Cheese Stuffed Steak

The first step is to combine the cranberry sauce, balsamic vinegar, rosemary, onion, and garlic. This is going to be your flank steak marinade. Pour marinade in a Ziploc bag or other reusable food-storage bag. Place flank steak inside and seal bag.

Let it marinate in the refrigerator for up to 8 hours. Give it at least 3 hours if you can so those flavours can really get into the meat. Take the steak out of the marinade, grind over some salt and pepper, and let it come to room temperature.

Put all the filling ingredients in a food processor (or a blender if you prefer) and pulse for about 30 seconds. You will need butterflied steak so you can roll it up. On a cutting board cut the steak in half across the length of the steak but don’t cut all the way through. You can then pound steak lightly with a meat mallet.

Roll Up the Flank Steak With Filling

Now you can spread the filling over the meat, roll the steak tightly, and tie the rolled steak with stuffing inside with cooking twine or kitchen string. Wrap the marinated steak roll in plastic wrap and refrigerate it for about 15 minutes to help it hold its shape.

Heat a cast iron skillet over a moderate to high heat. Meanwhile unwrap the meat, discard the plastic wrap and grind some black pepper over the meat. Sear it for a couple of minutes on each side, then bake it in the oven.

It will need about 20 minutes at 350 degrees F for medium-rare, so you can give it longer if you prefer it medium instead. For medium-rare, cook to an internal temperature of 130 degrees F to 135 degrees F. An instant-read thermometer or a meat thermometer is useful for this baked flank steak recipe.

Let the beef flank steak rest for about 10 minutes before slicing a sharp knife into flank steak rolls and serving with side dishes.

Stuffed Flank Steak Recipe Variations

If you want to simplify the beef flank steak dish, you can make a more basic filling, such as garlic, shallot, spinach and cream cheese, for example. But I love it with the cranberries and other flavours as a Christmas or New Year’s Eve treat. It is one of the those great recipes you will will make repeatedly this time of year.

It’s good to know you can experiment with other fillings though because stuffed steak always makes a nice weeknight treat and you can prep it in the morning then let it marinate all day and just cook it when you get home in the evening. Other garnishes could be used such as fresh parsley and it is particularly good served with horseradish sauce.

Flank Steak with Cream Cheese Cranberry Filling FAQs

Cranberry Cream Cheese Stuffed Flank Steak Recipe

You can’t go wrong with this cranberry cream cheese stuffed flank steak. It is a crowd-pleaser of a dish! It’s a wonderful Thanksgiving or Christmas steak recipe. In fact cooked stuffed flank steak a great main course that’s not turkey for Christmas or Thanksgiving. The juicy meat, tangy cranberries and cream cheese work in harmony to make this one of the best stuffed flank steak recipes ever.

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