Roast Beef
Operation Transformation Recipe - A classic roast beef for the ultimate Sunday Lunch
2 people
90 minutes
5 minutes
Ingredients
- 0.5 - Beef Stock made with 100mls water
- 200 g Broccoli cut into florets
- 2 tsp Butter
- 1 large Carrots chopped
- 2 cloves Garlic crushed
- 500 g Housekeeper's Cut of Beef *250g for this recipe, and use leftover beef for tomorrow night’s dish
- 1 medium Onion chopped
- 1 tsp Plain Flour
- 250 g SuperValu Potatoes peeled
Method
- Pre-heat oven to 220C / 200C fan / gas mark 7
- Place chopped onions, garlic cloves and rosemary in a roasting dish
- Place beef on top of onions, garlic and rosemary mix
- Place dish in oven and cook for 1 - 1 ½ hours until beef is cooked through
- Place potatoes in a pot of boiling water and cook for approximately 15-20 minutes until tender
- Steam carrots and broccoli until tender
- Drain water from potatoes, add butter and mash together
For the Gravy:
- When beef is cooked, rest the meat for 10 – 15 minutes
- Once rested, remove as much of the fat as you can from your roasting dish
- You will be left with onions, garlic cloves and juice from the beef
- Pour through a sieve into a pot so that just the liquid remains in a pot
- Place pot on medium heat and gradually add the stock, add 1 teaspoon of flour to the pot and stir everything together until your gravy thicken
