Best Roast Beef
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
Preheat oven to 450 degrees F (230 degrees C), and heat a largethick-bottomed roasting tray on the stovetop.
Rub the beef generously with salt, then add alittle olive oil to the tray and lightly color themeat for a couple of minutes on all sides.
Lay the onions and bulbs of garlic in the tray with the beef on top ofthem, then cook in the pre-heated oven for a total of1 1/2 hours.
While the beef is roasting, parboil your potatoes in salted boilingwater for around 10 minutes and drain in a colander. Toss about to chuff themup, this will make them really crispy.
After 30 minutes, take the tray out and toss in your potatoes androsemary. With a garlic press or grater, squeeze or grate the cloves of garlicand ginger over everything in the tray.
Shake the tray and whack it back in the oven for the final hour. Removethe potatoes to a dish to keep warm, place the beef on a plate, covered withfoil, to rest, and get your greens and Yorkshirepuddings on.
Remove most of the fat from your roasting tray and you should be leftwith caramelized onions and sticky beef goodness.
Add 1 teaspoon of flour to the tray and mash everything together. Heatthe tray on the stovetop and when hot, add the red wine. Simmer for 5 to 10minutes, stirring every couple of minutes, until your gravy is really tasty andcoats back of a spoon. Add any juice from the beef and feel free to add somewater or stock to thin the gravy if you like.
Pour through a coarse sieve and push it through with a spoon, pushingit through with a spoon, and serve in a warmed gravy jug. Serve with Yorkshire puddings.
Huge YorkshirePuddings:
1/2 pint (285 millilitres) milk
4 ounces (115 grams) all-purpose flour
Pinch salt
3 eggs
Vegetable oil
Preheat oven to 450 degrees F.
Mix the batter ingredients together. Let rest for 10 minutes
Preheat a Yorkshire pudding tray or muffin tin with 1/2-inch (1centimetre) of oil in each section. After the 10 minutesdivide the batter into the tray. Cook for around 15 to 20 minutes untilcrisp and puffy, don't open the oven door before then or they won't rise.
Yield: 8 to 10 servings
Prep Time: 15 minutes
Cook Time: 2 hours
Difficulty: Easy
This innot a Caleyco Recipe, itĘs įborrowed from Jamie OliverĘs Naked ChefTwo!
