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🥩 Steak with pepper 🍛 Beef with peppers
pepper steak

pepper steak

1 3.4
A steak covered with crushed pepper and cooked in a pan with brandy and butter sauce
  • noun
  • /ˈpɛpər steɪk/
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  • The restaurant's pepper steak is famous!

Examples

  • He learned to cook a classic pepper steak for special occasions.

  • I ordered the pepper steak with a side of mashed potatoes.

  • The restaurant is famous for its delicious pepper steak.

  • I ordered a pepper steak for dinner.

  • For dinner, we ordered the pepper steak, which had a rich brandy-and-butter sauce.

  • I love how the chef prepares the pepper steak with crushed peppercorns for extra flavor.

  • At the restaurant, the pepper steak was recommended as the house specialty.

Synonyms

steak au poivre
vspepper steak
1 8.6

A piece of beef covered in crushed pepper and cooked in a hot pan with a brandy and butter sauce

is the same dish but named using its French culinary label
peppered steak
vspepper steak
3.5

A steak covered with crushed black pepper and cooked quickly in a pan

is the same dish but uses a simple descriptive phrase rather than a fixed name

How Peppery

pepper steak
1 3.4
pepper steak
  • US
1 2.2

Surface Forms

pepper steak singular
pepper steaks plural

Morphology

pepper + steak

The meaning is directly and compositionally derived from 'pepper' (the vegetable/spice) modifying 'steak' (a cut of meat): a steak prepared with peppers. This is a common noun–noun culinary pattern found across languages, so a B1 learner who knows both words will readily infer the dish even if they cannot predict exact preparation details.

Etymology

Pepper steak comes from a simple picture: a whole steak is covered with crushed pepper before it is cooked, so the meat gets a strong peppery surface. That's why the name means 'a steak covered with pepper'.