Grapefruit and Sweet Piquanté Pepper Salsa with a Rump Steak
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To give you a bit of background with how this recipe came about (click here you want to go straight to the recipe): Pick ‘n Pay asked me to try their MasterChef knife range, which you can currently get for free at Pick ‘n Pay Hyper through their shop, collect and get promotion. So I wanted to make a recipe using the knives, and try them for what they’re for! The MasterChef knives are high-quality and have a sleek, matte black professional finish. The blade is non-stick coated and the hollow ground blade edge makes slicing easier. As if that’s not enough, the weighted handle improves your balance when chopping and the ergonomic handle provides non-slip grip.
Utility Knife
First, I used utility knife to skin and segment the grapefruits. The utility knife is 13 cm long, and has a short, but sharp blade. It easy fits in your hand for finer cuts. Other than for slicing fruit, the utility knife can also be used to cut tender pieces of meat, and even sandwiches. As the “knife of all trades,” it's a handy go-to for the everyday chef.
Santoku knife
Up next, I used the small Santoku knife, which is about 12 cm long, so a bit shorter than the utility knife, but don’t underestimate it! Santoku is Japanese and means "three virtues" which refers to the main uses of the knife; you can use a Santoku knife to cut, slice and chop. It’s a great general-purpose knife as it can be used for mincing, dicing, chopping and thin slices of vegetables, slicing and cubing raw meat and cooked proteins. In the recipe below, used the Santoku knife to cut and dice the onions.
How does the Pick ‘n Pay Hyper MasterChef Knife Collection promotion work?
If you want to get your own MasterChef knives, simply shop at Pick ‘n Pay Hypermarket and collect the stickers every time you shop. Soon you'll have enough to get a free knife. You receive one sticker for every R100 you spend. When you have collected 60, 80 or 90 stickers, you qualify for one of the knives.
The promotion is valid from 19 August to 22 December 2024.
What MasterChef knives are available to collect?
Other than the utility knife (free with 60 stickers or buy one for R299.99) and the small santoku knife (also free with 60 stickers or buy one for R299.99) I used in this recipe, you can also get:
a large santoku knife (80 stickers or R499.99)
a strong pair of kitchen scissors (60 stickers or R299.99)
a set of steak knives (11.5 cm long) come in a set of two (90 stickers R549.99)
a bread knife (19 cm long - 80 stickers or R499.99)
and a large cooks knife (80 stickers or R499.99).
How to make the Salsa and Steak Recipe
I love a good steak, and often make a chimichurri to go with it. But this time I decided to make a salsa. Find the recipe below and try make yours at home!
Ingredients for the Grapefruit and Sweet Piquanté Pepper Salsa
3 whole grapefruits
2 onions
1 punnet Basil
1 punnet Coriander
200 gram sweet piquanté peppers
4 sweet corns
200 grams halloumi
a sprinkle of dukkah
How to Make the Salsa
Parboil the sweet corn in a pot on the stove.
Sprinkle a little olive oil over the sweet corn, then braai the cobs on the fire until chargrilled.
Once cooled, you can use the Santoku knife to get the corn off the cob.
Skin and segment your grapefruits using a utility knife.
Use a Santoku knife to cut and dice the onions.
Remove the storks from the basil and coriander and chop finely using your Santoku knife.
Slice the sweet piquanté peppers with the Santoku knife as well.
Mix in the corn, grapefruit segments, diced onions and chopped basil and coriander.
How to Make the Rump Steak
Braai the steak on a hot fire, turning over only once.
Cook to a medium rare. The easiest way to tell when your steak is done is to touch it. It should feel the same way as when you touch your middle finger with your thumb. Now feel the palm of your hand, just below your thumb. The way that section of your palm feels, while your middle finger and your thumb are touching, this is what a medium-rare steak feels like.
Roasted Dad Tip: Leave the steak to rest before cutting. If you cut it too early, it’ll bleed out.
Assembling the Salsa and Steak Dish
Reassemble the cooled down steak on top of the salad before serving.
Finish off your dish by sprinkling some dukkah over the top.
Of course we ate our steak and salsa with the Pick ‘n Pay MasterChef steak knives, which come in a set of two (free with 90 stickers)
Enjoy! Please tag me on Instagram if you’ve made this recipe, I’d love to see it!
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About Shawn Godfrey
Photo credit: Niki M Photography
Shawn Godfrey is an entrepreneur based in Cape Town, South Africa. After the Covid-19 lockdown saw his business in financial distress, cooking was the creative outlet that helped to keep him sane. To keep track of his recipes, and encourage friends and families to join him, he starts his instagram account The Roasted Dad.
Fast-forward to late 2021 - on a whim Shawn (encouraged by his wife Lianne) enters MasterChef South Africa. It is a crazy time of life: running a 200 people business and struggling to keep it profitable, two small children with a third on the way, and about to move into a new house. But when Shawn gets selected to be one of the 20 contestants participating in the fourth season of MasterChef South Africa, he decides to go all in. Leaving his 7-month-pregnant wife to look after their then three and one-year-old children, he battles it out and comes back home five weeks later with the trophy and a million rand prize money in his pocket.
It all started with an Instagram account, but The Roasted Dad is so much more now. Shawn has stayed his entrepreneurial self and whilst he hosts Private Dinner Parties and Cook-with-Me Demos, does Restaurant Take-Overs, he still runs the lighting company and several other businesses.
On his blog, Shawn shares Restaurant Reviews and Accommodation Reviews, and gives an insight into the wild and wonderful life he leads together with his wife Lianne, and their three children Aiden (6), Olivia (4) and Harvey (2).
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