Ingredients

  • 1/2 cup butter
  • 1 small onion, sliced
  • 1/4 cup sliced carrots
  • 1/4 cup sliced celery
  • 25 peppercorns
  • 16 whole cloves
  • 3 tablespoons flour
  • 1 cup beef broth
  • water, as needed (optional)
  • 2 tablespoons chopped fresh parsley, divided
  • salt and ground black pepper to taste
  • 1/3 cup red wine
  • 1 tablespoon olive oil, or to taste
  • 3/4 cup sliced mushrooms

Method

  • Melt butter in a large skillet over medium-high heat. Saute onion, carrots, celery, peppercorns, and cloves in melted butter until onions are browned, 7 to 10 minutes.
  • Stir flour into the onion mixture; cook and stir until the flour is completely moistened, 1 to 2 minutes. Stream beef broth into the skillet while stirring the onion mixture; cook, stirring continually, until the broth thickens into a gravy, 5 to 10 minutes. Add water to thin the gravy as needed to keep it from becoming paste-like.
  • Stir 1 tablespoon parsley into the gravy; continue to cook, stirring frequently, until the parsley imparts flavor to the gravy, 5 to 10 minutes; strain through a fine-mesh strainer into a clean saucepan. Discard vegetables.
  • Place the saucepan over low heat. Season sauce with salt, pepper, and most of the remaining parsley. Stir red wine into the sauce.
  • Heat olive oil in a skillet over medium-high heat; saute mushrooms in hot oil until completely tender, about 5 minutes. Stir mushrooms into the sauce; garnish with remaining parsley after spooning over steaks.