Beef Crostini with Bacon Horseradish Dip Recipe

This super easy, step by step recipe for grilled beef crostini with bacon horseradish dip is a delicious twist on a classic flavor combination. This appetizer is perfect for every entertaining occasion from fourth of July, tailgating, holiday parties and New Years Eve celebrations. Your guests will be asking you for the recipe!

Grilled Beef Crostini with Bacon Horseradish Dip Ingredients:

1 lb. Ribeye steak, trimmed
1/4 Cup Worcestershire Sauce
1/4 Cup Extra Virgin Olive Oil
1/4 Cup Balsamic Vinegar
2 Teaspoons Sugar
1/4 Teaspoon Red Pepper Flake
1/2 Teaspoon Salt
1/2 Teaspoon Pepper
1/2 Large Red Onion, sliced thinly
2 Tablespoons Butter or Bacon Fat
1 Tub Heluva Good! Dip, Bacon Horseradish
1 Baguette, Sliced

Marinade the meat

In a zip top bag combine:

1 lb. Ribeye steak, trimmed of excess fat
1/4 Cup Worcestershire Sauce
1/4 Cup Extra Virgin Olive Oil
1/4 Cup Balsamic Vinegar
2 Teaspoons Sugar
1/4 Teaspoon Red Pepper Flake
1/2 Teaspoon Salt
1/2 Teaspoon Pepper

Seal the zip top bag, removing as much air as possible, allowing the marinade to have as much contact with the meat a possible. Chill in the refrigerator for a minimum of tow hours. Over night is best but give the meat at least two hours to marinate in the delicious flavor profile.

Onions

Thinly slice a red onion into slivers. Don’t make them paper thin as they will basically dissolve into an onion past as your caramelize them. Instead, slice them so they will have a bit of a bite to them after sautéing. If you don’t have a red onion on hand a white or yellow onion will work as a good substitute. I happen to love a red onion for this recipe but would happily substitute in another onion if I was out of red onions.

Sauté

Over medium to medium high heat, sauté the onions until they are caramelized in color. If you happen to have rendered bacon fat use that as the sautéing fat. The bacon flavor will nicely compliment the bacon in the Heluva Good! bacon horseradish dip. I am all about complimenting flavors!

But if you don’t have bacon fat, butter or olive oil will work as a perfect substitute.

Grilled Baguette

Slice a fresh baguette thickly and grill over a medium hot grill.

Don’t walk away or answer the phone. Don’t check Facebook or walk the dog.

Grilling should take about five minutes total. I can’t tell you how many times I got distracted and walked away from grilling baguette and burned them up! Learn from my mistake and babysit your grilled baguette slices so they don’t burn to a crisp.

Bacon Horseradish Dip

Heluva Good! has a whole line of delicious dips, all with amazing flavor profiles but the Bacon Horseradish Dip was SCREAMING at me to be used in this recipe. You all know of my love of bacon! The horseradish in this dip gives an awesome and unexpected kick and I knew I wanted to create a crostini topped with grilled steak. Steak and horseradish. A CLASSIC flavor combination. And then bacon….everything is better with bacon. Amirite?

Spread a layer of the Heluva Good! bacon horseradish over your grilled crostini. I make the spread on the thicker side. I want to sink my teeth into the dip. Get INTO that good dip!

Grilled Beef

Over high heat, grill your marinated rib eye to medium. Get some good grill marks for color and flavor and don’t over cook it.

Allow to rest on a cutting board until it is cooled, almost completely. If you cut the meat while it is still hot, all the juices and flavors will run out of the meat an onto your cutting board.

Using a long cerated knife, slice the steak as thin as possible. You want this to be a ribbon of meat. This is another reason you want the meat to cool. If you were to thinly slick hot meat ALL of the juices will completely run out of it. It will be dry and you will be sad.

Assembly

Place a thin slice of grilled beef over the bacon horseradish dip dolloped crostini and top with the sautéed onions.

Garnish with a sprinkling of chopped chives, if you are feeling fancy.

Can’t you just take all the flavors?!

Get in my belly!!

Serve with a side of rippled potato chips.

Why rippled potato chips? Because I think they are better for dipping and scooping up the extra Heluva Good! Bacon horseradish dip. You see, you will not be using an entire tub of the dip for this recipe. You might as well enjoy it as a side dip!