Off-Oven Roast Beef
INGREDIENTS
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Off-Oven Roast Beef
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Sam Sifton
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Time2 hours 30 minu
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Beef Roast
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Ingredients
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1 beef roast, like top, eye or bottom round, approximately 3 pounds
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1 tablespoon kosher salt
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1 tablespoon freshly ground black pepper
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3 cloves garlic, peeled and minced
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1 tablespoon olive oil
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Red-pepper flakes to taste
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Nutritional Information
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Preparation
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Step 1Remove roast from refrigerator. Preheat oven to 500 degrees.
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Step 2In 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
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Step 3Turn off oven. Do not open oven door. Leave roast to continue cooking, undisturbed, for two hours.
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Step 4After 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.
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Notes
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