Add these to the list of things that have evaded me until recently. THANK YOU FOOD TOK!!! We don’t eat a lot of steak at my house. My husband thinks it’s “chewy” and I only usually like super-thin cuts a couple of times a year. Imagine my own surprise when I was mindlessly scrolling Food Tok and came across steak, spinach, and cheese pinwheels and could NOT stop thinking about them. I literally did everything wrong and not like the recipe instructed but they turned out SO DELICIOUS and we love them. They are perfect for entertaining, at-home date-night, brunch, food prepped meals, macro counting, you NAME IT. I serve these with air fryer parmesan fries and prosecco.
Pro-Tip
- Watch a Youtube video about how to butterfly a flank steak if you don’t know how to already. I didn’t know how…I botched it up, there were holes everywhere, and it still worked out just fine so don’t panic if it’s not perfect. It will work I PROMISE.
- The cheese can be parmesan or asiago. I have used both and both were delicious.
- Use fresh spinach. I’m sure that frozen would work but it’s usually a little soggy and doesn’t cook long enough to solve that problem.
- Don’t over-salt your steak. The cheese is pretty salty on its own. You can always add salt later.
- Do NOT cook this without cutting it into the pinwheels. I’m speaking from experience here. I was like why make a mess when I can just cut it after it’s done. This was misguided and obviously, the middle didn’t cook at all.
- Tie the steak rolls as opposed to skewers. I bought skewers… I tried to make it work and it just didn’t. I had to pull the rolls off the grill tie them up and remove the skewers. I’m sure if you are better at skewers than I am it would be fine….just letting you know mine was a failed experiment. We just use twine my husband had in his toolbox. That’s a true story….just soak it first so it doesn’t go up in flames.
- If you don’t have a grill most videos I watched cooked this in a pan on the stove and they looked amazing….I just prefer the grill ALWAYS.
Steak and Cheese Pinwheels
Simple, Delicious, affordable, fancy.
Equipment
- Grill
- Soaked String
Ingredients
- 1 Flank Steak (Butterflied) ours comes pre-packaged from the store anywhere between 1.5-2.5 Lbs. Adjust other ingredients accordingly
- 2 Cups Fresh Spinach
- 1 Cup Shredded Parmesan Cheese (Asiago is good too)
- 1 Dash Salt
Instructions
- Take one flank steak from the store and butterfly it
- Lightly salt steak once butterflied
- Layer shredded cheese all over steak using desired amount leaving an inch border around steak to be rolled
- Top shredded cheese with fresh spinach
- Roll that dude up till it looks like this. Stuff will be falling out of it….thats OKAY
- Cut steak into at least 4 pieces. Thinner for appetizers or more people
- Spray with cooking oil, place carefully on preheated grill about 400 degrees, and cook to your desired temp flipping once halfway done. We cook ours for about 6 min a side
- Pull off of grill. Remove strings or skewers and ENJOY
