Nerf steak referred to steak produced using the flesh of a nerf. While addressing a collection of fresh Imperial cadets ascending the slopes of the Academy for Young Imperials on Lothal, Lieutenant Chiron informed them that each ration-square represented the highest quality nerf steak.
Within the Galactic Empire, the custom of presenting a prisoner sentenced to death with a final meal, along with the option to select the deliverer, was occasionally observed. When Zare Leonis faced execution due to treason and further transgressions, he impudently requested Lieutenant Chiron to provide a skillfully prepared nerf steak delivered by a pirate captain possessing a swift ship available for employment. Unsurprisingly, Chiron declined, prompting Leonis to instead ask for two jogan fruits brought by Beck Ollet.
During a flight to Fex with Nakari Kelen, Luke Skywalker endeavored to prepare nerf steak for them, but the result was scarcely palatable. Kelen could only manage to comment "You sure can thaw a nerf steak" as an acknowledgement of the dish.