Roast Beef With Peppercorn Herb Crust Recipes

HERB-CRUSTED ROAST BEEF WITH HORSERADISH CREAM

Steps:

• Special Equipment: food processor
• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
• Season roast well with salt and pepper. In a medium saute pan over medium-high heat, add 2 tablespoons oil. When hot, sear roast on all sides, until nicely caramelized, about 8 to 10 minutes. Remove roast to a sheet tray lined with a wire rack.
• Meanwhile, place garlic, parsley, thyme, oregano, rosemary, mustard powder, 1/2 cup oil, salt and pepper, to taste, in a food processor and pulse until mixture forms a paste.
• Rub paste all over roast. Bake in the oven until the roast is cooked to medium-rare or registers 125 degrees F on an instant-read thermometer, about 45 minutes.
• Let roast rest 10 minutes before slicing and serve with Horseradish Cream.
• Horseradish Cream:
• In a small bowl, mix together all ingredients. Cover and refrigerate until ready to serve.
• Yield: 1/2 cup

ROAST BEEF WITH PEPPERCORN-HERB CRUST

Steps:

• Dry the meat with paper toweling.
• Make 6 1-inch deep slits about equidistant apart along the roast and slip a clove of garlic inside (make more slits with more garlic if you like).
• Place the roast in a roasting pan.
• Drag out your mortar, spice mill, or sledge hammer, and crush the peppercorns along with the other 3 cloves of garlic, the salt, and the herbs and mix them into a paste (add a touch of oil if desired).
• Prepare to get your hands dirty- grab some of the paste and rub it into the roast and pat it down evenly across the surface.
• If you find yourself needing a bit more, make some, but this amount should do.
• Cover the roasting pan with plastic wrap and marinate in the fridge 6 hours or overnight.
• A few hours before you plan to start roasting, pull the roast out of the fridge and let it bring up to room temp, and let it sit that way for an hour.
• Preheat your oven to 200 degrees F.
• Place the roasting pan in the oven and go read a book, because this is slow roasting- at about 2 hours and 15 minutes, you might start checking on it.
• You want the internal temp to come up to 110F, you should use an instant read thermometer or have had a thermometer stuck in the roast in a center part not touching the bone.
• When it gets to 110F, turn the oven up to 500F- this is going to give it a fabulous crust.
• Watch it closely now, and when it gets to 135F you can take it out and have a nice med-rare roast (for med, go till 150, and for well-done, go to 160).
• Remove the roast from the pan and put it on your platter, but don't dare carve it for 15-20 minutes or you'll lose all the juices inside.
• Degrease all the pan juices in the roaster, the add the beef stock to that, scraping up the browned bits at the bottom.
• Mix the flour with the water in a small dish.
• Heat the pan juices, and stir the flour slurry into it, stirring constantly until it comes to a boil and thickens.
• Serve the gravy with your sliced beef, if desired.

HERB & PEPPER CRUSTED RIB OF BEEF

Steps:

• Heat oven to 220C/200C fan/gas 7. Mix the rock salt, peppercorns, garlic, rosemary, parsley and olive oil. Rub this mixture all over the beef rib then place in a roasting tin. Put in the oven and cook for 30 mins, then turn the oven down to 160C/140C fan/gas 3 and cook for a further 1 hr 20 mins. Remove from the oven, transfer the beef to a board, cover with tin foil and rest for 30 mins before carving.
• While the beef rests, make the gravy. Pour off all but 2 tbsp of fat from the roasting tin and reserve any juices. Fry the onions in the roasting tin over a medium heat for about 10 mins, then add the wine, stock and reserved juices. Keep cooking for a further 10 mins to reduce to a thick sauce, season well and serve alongside the roast beef.

PEPPERCORN ROAST BEEF

Steps:

• Place garlic and 1 pinch kosher salt into a mortar and pestle; grind garlic until it forms a paste. Mix olive oil into garlic.
• Place roast into a baking dish. Brush garlic paste on one side of the roast. Season generously with 1 teaspoon kosher salt.
• Combine peppercorns in a small bowl. Press ground peppercorn mixture generously onto roast. Flip meat and repeat, brushing with garlic paste and seasoning with 1 teaspoon kosher salt and peppercorn mixture.
• If desired, place roast on a rack over baking dish and refrigerate uncovered overnight to dry out. The next day, remove and let meat stand 1 hour to reach room temperature.
• Melt butter in a large ovenproof skillet; turn off heat. Place roast into hot butter and flip to coat both sides. Season with more salt if desired.
• Preheat oven to 450 degrees F (230 degrees C).
• Roast meat in skillet in the preheated oven for 15 minutes. Remove meat from oven and flip in skillet.
• Turn oven down to 200 degrees F (95 degrees C). Roast meat until pepper crust is lightly browned and an instant-read meat thermometer, inserted into the center of the roast, reads 130 degrees F (54 degrees C), about 15 more minutes.
• Transfer roast to a platter and tent loosely with aluminum foil. Let roast stand at least 15 minutes.
• Place skillet with pan drippings over medium heat; whisk in flour until smooth. Cook, whisking constantly, for 2 minutes to remove raw taste from flour. Whisk in veal stock.
• Turn heat to medium-high, bring sauce to a boil, and reduce heat to medium-low. Simmer pan sauce, stirring constantly, until reduced by half and sauce has slightly thickened, about 10 minutes. Season with salt and 1 pinch of cayenne pepper. Stir balsamic vinegar and any accumulated juices from meat platter into pan sauce.
• Carve beef across the grain, starting at the smallest corner of the roast. Serve slices on warmed plates drizzled with pan sauce.

HERB-CRUSTED ROAST BEEF

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 325°. Place roast with fat side up in ungreased roasting pan. Combine the next five ingredients; pour over roast. Combine parsley, basil, salt, pepper, tarragon and thyme; rub over roast. , Bake, uncovered, 1-3/4 to 2-1/4 hours or until meat reaches desired doneness (for medium-rare, a thermometer should read 135°; medium, 140°; medium-well, 145°). Remove to a warm serving platter. Let stand 10-15 minutes. , Pour drippings and loosened brown bits into a measuring cup. Skim fat, reserving 2 tablespoons. In a large saucepan, combine flour, bouillon and 1 cup water until smooth. Gradually stir in the drippings, reserved fat and remaining water. Bring to a boil; cook and stir 2 minutes or until thickened. Slice roast; serve with gravy.