How To Bbq Filet Mignon

I am going to show you how to barbecue filet mignon. Let me just get that out of the bowl. Stick that straight on the barbecue there, and I want to color it all over to begin with.

And once I do that, I am just going to talk to you about this particular cut of meat, because it is the most prime cut on the cow. It falls just underneath, sometimes just above the saddle where you would sit, and it is a long muscle. And if you strip it down, you just take off little slices which are the mignon, which is this bit.

And now, what I will do afterwards, I think, is once it has been cooked, we would then season and then maybe put sauce on it. I am just going to begin with, just color it all over like that, so it is going to take about ten minutes in total to cook. Now, traditionally, something like this, you might do with au jus which is a reduction, a stock reduction.

But if you are doing a barbecue, I think Béarnaise sauce is probably going to be the perfect thing. Now if we just turn that over, as you can see, it is beginning to char, but I am just going to work around the edges, so that we can just color it all over like that and that is going to just keep all those juices sealed in. So what we are going to do now is just leave that on for probably five or six minutes.

Now, the great thing about this barbecue is you have got all the coals on one side, which means that if it does get a little bit too hot at any time, you can just move it over to there, just a little bit, or you can move it closer to where the real heat is. And of course, once it is completely cooked, you can then leave it over here just to finish off. I have just been gently turning that for the last twenty minutes or so, and now that is cooked to perfection.

But if you want to know how to cook a filet mignon on a barbecue, that is how you do it. You basically have to brown it all over and just keep turning it until you get the consistency that you like. There is quite a lot of give in that, and that is how I like it, and if you want to cook it for a bit longer, maybe twenty-five minutes.

Ladies and gentlemen, that is how you cook a filet mignon on a barbecue. .