I received samples of Old Amsterdam Classic Gouda and Goat Gouda to review. I receive no further compensation. All opinions are my own.
Stacked Sweet Potato Steak with Gouda Cheese Sauce offers cinnamon sweet potatoes topped with tender steak slices and drenched in smooth, tangy Old Amsterdam Classic Gouda cheese sauce. Serve as an appetizer or main dish.
Be sure to check out the bonus recipe for Goat Gouda from Old Amsterdam at the end of the post.
I’m a big fan of cheese. I can eat it as a snack as well as incorporated in dishes.
Fruit and cheese boards are fun. It can be a nice change from meat.
One of my favorite ways to enjoy cheese is cheese sauce.
Old Amsterdam Classic Gouda melts easily. It’s tangy flavor doesn’t get lost in a rich sauce. Classic Gouda pairs beautifully with steak.
Sweet potatoes cooked with onion then mashed with butter and cinnamon works with steak and cheese. You get a burst of umami, a bit of sweet and salty and tang from the gouda. Delicious!
Stacked Sweet Potato Steak with Gouda Cheese Sauce
Stacked Sweet Potato Steak with Gouda Cheese Sauce
Ingredients
Sweet Potatoes
- 2 cups peeled and diced sweet potatoes
- 1/4 cup diced onion
- 2 tablespoons freshly squeezed orange juice (I used blood oranges)
- 1 teaspoon fresh thyme leaves
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1/2 teaspoon Kosher salt
Steak
- 1 pound skirt or flat iron steak cut into thin strips
- 1 tablespoon vegetable oil
- salt and pepper to taste
Cheese Sauce
- 1/4 cup butter
- 1/4 cup flour
- 1 cup milk
- 1/2 cup shredded Old Amsterdam Classic Gouda
Garnish
- 1/4 cup shredded Old Amsterdam Classic Gouda
- orange zest
- fresh thyme leaves
Instructions
Sweet Potatoes
- Bring sweet potatoes and onions and enough water to cover it to a boil in a 2-quart saucepan. Reduce heat to medium. Cover and cook until tender, about 12 to 15 minutes.
- Turn off heat. Drain and return sweet potatoes and onion to the burner. Add butter, orange juice, salt and mash. Fold in cinnamon and thyme. Keep warm. While sweet potatoes cook, prepare steak and cheese sauce.
Steak
- Heat a medium-sized skillet over medium heat for about 1 minute. Add oil and heat until oil shimmers, about a minute. Salt and pepper steak strips. Add steak to pan in a single layer and fry about 1 to 2 minutes per side to reach desired doneness. keep warm.
Cheese Sauce
- Add flour to a 1-quart saucepan. Cook over medium heat about 1 minute, stirring constantly. Add butter and continue cooking, stirring constantly to form a roux, about 2 to 4 minutes. Remove from heat and whisk in milk. return to stove, reduce heat to low-medium and cook, stirring constantly until sauce starts to thicken, about 2 to 3 minutes. Remove from heat and add cheese, stirring until melted in and thoroughly blended.
Assemble
- Use a ring mold or just mound desired amount of sweet potatoes onto a plate. Next, drape steak over top. Add cheese sauce over steak. Garnish as desired with zest, thyme and shredded cheese. Sprinkle with additional cinnamon if desired.
About Old Amsterdam Cheese
Old Amsterdam Cheese, the market leader in Branded Aged Gouda in Holland, offers a delicious lineup of quality Gouda cheeses including Old Amsterdam Classic Aged Gouda and Old Amsterdam Goat Gouda:
- Old Amsterdam Aged Gouda is known as The Classic the #1 Aged Gouda in Holland. Classic Gouda is aged for a minimum of 8 months and has a perfect balance between sweet and savory.  It has rich butterscotch undertones and a dense, smooth texture sparked with fine ripening crystals. This popular and well-loved favorite from Holland has won numerous awards and is loved internationally. It is ideal for cheese platters, recipes, and other pairings such as almonds, jam, fruit chutney, fruits, raisin nut bread, and crackers as well as paired with a favorite wine, beer, or cocktail.
- Old Amsterdam Goat Gouda has been voted the number one Hard Goat’s Milk cheese in the world. Goat Gouda is aged for a minimum of 8 months and has a very surprising and pleasant flavor profile and is refreshingly sweet with caramel undertones and a smooth, creamy texture with fine ripening crystals.  The sweetness and texture make this great on salads, sandwiches, and in many recipes. It pairs well on a platter with hazelnuts, figs, fruits, and your favorite IPA’s.
Old Amsterdam can be purchased through e-commerce at Shop Old Amsterdam and at such retailers as King’s, Raley’s, ShopRite, Albertsons, Trader Joes, Gelson’s, HEB, Hy-Vee, Lunds & Byerlys, Mariano’s, Pavilions, Safeway, and Sprouts.
Here’s a perfect salad recipe to try with Old Amsterdam Goat Gouda courtesy of Old Amsterdam. A healthy salad with radicchio and chicken and shaved Old Amsterdam.
This salad is packed full of vitamins! The black grapes are a delicious, sweet complement to the salty cheese. Ideal for leftover chicken, but if you don’t have any, you can also use chicken thighs.
60 minutes–Serves 4
Ingredients
•2 chicken thighs
•5 tablespoons olive oil
•4 radicchio stalks
•2 sticks of celery
•1 tablespoon mustard
•1 tablespoon mayonnaise
•1 tablespoon vinegar
•Salt and pepper
•1 head of curly endive
•A few sprigs of flat parsley
•2 handfuls of seedless black grapes
•A piece of Old Amsterdam
Season the chicken. Heat 2 tablespoons of olive oil in a thick-bottomed pan and fry the drumsticks so they are brown all over. Put the heat down to a low setting, add a splash of water and leave the chicken to cook for 30 minutes (you may need to add more water if the chicken gets dry). Leave it to cool and cut the meat into pieces.
Cut the radicchio stalks lengthways down the middle and remove the core. Then cut them into strips. Remove the strings from the celery sticks and slice them diagonally into thin rings.
Make a vinaigrette with the mustard, mayonnaise, vinegar, and a pinch of salt and pepper. Add the rest of the olive oil and beat it into a smooth dressing.
In a bowl, mix the radicchio, curly endive and celery and then add the dressing. Divide it between 4 plates, put the chicken and grapes on top, sprinkle with finely chopped parsley and finish with shavings of Old Amsterdam.
