Best 3 Oven Roast Beef Recipes

OFF-OVEN ROAST BEEF

Steps:

• Remove roast from refrigerator. Preheat oven to 500 degrees.
• In a small bowl, mix together salt, pepper, garlic, olive oil and red-pepper flakes to create a kind of paste. Rub this all over the roast. Place beef in a roasting pan or cast-iron skillet, fat-side up, and put in oven. Cook undisturbed for 5 minutes per pound.
• Turn off oven. Do not open oven door. Leave roast to continue cooking, undisturbed, for two hours.
• After two hours, remove roast from oven. Slice and serve alongside, ideally, a watercress salad, some skillet-fried potatoes and a small tureen of Henry Bain sauce.

OVEN ROAST BEEF

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 325 degrees fahrenheit.
• Rub the dry soup mix on the meat, place in a covered roasting pan.
• Add mushroom soup and water or beer.
• Bake covered for 1 hour per pound of meat. If the cut of meat is very dense with little fat, remove one half hour before reaching total cooking time, slice and return to finish.

BEEF POT ROAST (POT, OVEN OR SLOW COOKER)

Steps:

• Trim fat from meat. Brown meat on all sides in hot oil in a 4- to 6-quart Dutch oven. Drain fat.
• Mix 3/4 cup water, Worcestershire sauce, bouillon, basil and salt and pepper to taste.
• Pour over roast. Bring to boil. Reduce heat and simmer, covered, 1 hour.
• Peel a strip of skin from center of each new potato or peel and quarter sweet potatoes.
• Add potatoes, carrots, onions and celery to pot. Return to boil. Reduce heat.
• Simmer covered, until tender, 45 to 60 minutes. Add water as needed.
• Transfer meat and vegetables to platter. Reserve juices.
• To prepare gravy, measure juices, skim off fat, and add enough water to make 1 1/2 cups. Return to Dutch oven.
• In a small bowl, stir 1/2 cup water into flour. Stir into pan juices. Cook, stirring, on medium heat until thickened, then 1 minute more. Season to taste. Serve with pot roast.
• For oven cooking: After browning meat and adding liquid mixture to pan, bake, covered, for 1 hour at 325 degrees. Prepare potatoes as directed. Add vegetables to meat. Bake, covered, until tender, 45 to 60 minutes. Make gravy as directed.
• For slow cooker: Trim fat from meat. Slice vegetables into a 4- to 5-quart crockery cooker. Put meat on top of vegetables. Mix the liquid mixture to cooker. Cover and cook on low for 10 to 12 hours or on high for 5 to 6 hours. Prepare gravy as directed.