Best Roast Beef

  • Level: Easy
  • Yield: 8 to 10 servings
  • Total: 2 hr 15 min
  • Prep: 15 min
  • Cook: 2 hr
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Ingredients

1 (5 1/2-pound) fore-rib, wing-rib or sirloin of beef, French trimmed (2.5 kilograms)

Sea salt and freshly ground black pepper

Olive oil

3 red onions, halved

2 bulbs garlic, plus 4 cloves garlic, peeled

7 pounds (3 kilograms) roasting potatoes, peeled

3 rosemary sprigs

2 thumb-sized pieces ginger, peeled and diced

1/2 bottle robust red wine

Yorkshire pudding, recipe follows

Huge Yorkshire Puddings:

1/2 pint (285 milliliters) milk

4 ounces (115 grams) all-purpose flour

Pinch salt

3 eggs

Vegetable oil

Directions

  1. Preheat oven to 450 degrees F (230 degrees C), and heat a large thick-bottomed roasting tray on the stovetop.
  2. Rub the beef generously with salt, then add a little olive oil to the tray and lightly color the meat for a couple of minutes on all sides.
  3. Lay the onions and bulbs of garlic in the tray with the beef on top of them, then cook in the pre-heated oven for a total of 1 1/2 hours.
  4. While the beef is roasting, parboil your potatoes in salted boiling water for around 10 minutes and drain in a colander. Toss about to chuff them up, this will make them really crispy.
  5. After 30 minutes, take the tray out and toss in your potatoes and rosemary. With a garlic press or grater, squeeze or grate the cloves of garlic and ginger over everything in the tray.
  6. Shake the tray and whack it back in the oven for the final hour. Remove the potatoes to a dish to keep warm, place the beef on a plate, covered with foil, to rest, and get your greens and Yorkshire puddings on.
  7. Remove most of the fat from your roasting tray and you should be left with caramelized onions and sticky beef goodness.
  8. Add 1 teaspoon of flour to the tray and mash everything together. Heat the tray on the stovetop and when hot, add the red wine. Simmer for 5 to 10 minutes, stirring every couple of minutes, until your gravy is really tasty and coats back of a spoon. Add any juice from the beef and feel free to add some water or stock to thin the gravy if you like.
  9. Pour through a coarse sieve and push it through with a spoon, pushing it through with a spoon, and serve in a warmed gravy jug. Serve with Yorkshire puddings.

Huge Yorkshire Puddings:

  1. Preheat oven to 450 degrees F.
  2. Mix the batter ingredients together. Let rest for 10 minutes
  3. Preheat a Yorkshire pudding tray or muffin tin with 1/2-inch (1 centimeter) of oil in each section. After the 10 minutes divide the batter into the tray. Cook for around 15 to 20 minutes until crisp and puffy, don't open the oven door before then or they won't rise.

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tena11

 Ollo there all you " Foodies "  . Lovely recipe. Truly. HOWEVER your problem lies here.   Thee coking spray  PAM works best. Thee olive  oil , OR the lucious butter one, to spray onto the roast, & all your herbs , even if you're just using salt & pepper & nothing else, adhere right to it. Put it into the frigidaire like that , uncovered for about an hr, till it dries out a tad. I leave it in overnight. Then let the meat REST , for about an hr. Do other things, like DRINK that bottle of wine, then shrug your shoulders & say " Bloody "ell , I'll just use Au Jus,  from this here package! . Add water , or the wee bit of rest of your wine, & add it later over your taters cooked separately with gravy.  . Thee other thing, is DON"T JUST PREHEAT those muffin tine!  YOU WANT THEM PIPING HOT!    And my fine fiends , use CRSCO! Yes, plain old , cheap, Crisco, AND now it comes in BUTTER flavor! BUTTER!  Put thee crisco in the muffin tins, sides & bottom, scotch them up, then quickly add thee COLD batter , which as well was sitting in thee frigidaire, & NEVER OPEN THAT OVEN!  They shall be done in approx 20 minutes, whilst your Beef is sitting all smiley like.   Keep drinking. Now.. it's Egg Nog Time  ! Then think of Jamie , & his cooking skills, & say "  well, LOOKIE ere!   Me Muffins are looking smashing, & all me guests  that I've NOT invited, are eating EVERYTHING UP! .   Jamie would be proud   ( sigh )   MERRY CHRISTMAS !!  Thank you Jamie ( hiccup ) :)   From Nata$ha Veru$chka  New York City USA 

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