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Sharing bavette with blue cheese, beef dripping wedges & ranch salad

This steak lunch with roastie-style, skin-on wedges has the indulgence of a roast made with far fewer pots and pans. If your mum enjoys steak and chips, she’ll love this.

SERVES 6 PREP 30 mins COOK 1 hr 15 mins

2 x 500g bavette steaks
70g stilton, crumbled
60g butter
2 tbsp finely chopped chives
1.5kg Maris Piper potatoes
80g beef dripping
12 large garlic cloves, lightly bashed

For the salad

1 large Butterhead lettuce (or round lettuce)
1 cucumber, thinly sliced on the diagonal
120ml buttermilk
1 lemon, juiced
70g mayonnaise
½ tbsp wholegrain mustard

Take the steaks out of the

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