Off-Oven Roast Beef

Name: Off-Oven Roast Beef
Ingredients: 1 beef roast, like top, eye or bottom round, approximately 3 pounds; 1 tablespoon kosher salt; 1 tablespoon freshly ground black pepper; 3 cloves garlic, peeled and minced; 1 tablespoon olive oil; Red-pepper flakes to taste

6 ingredients

4 steps

Ingredients

1 beef roast, like top, eye or bottom round, approximately 3 pounds
1 tablespoon kosher salt
1 tablespoon freshly ground black pepper
3 cloves garlic, peeled and minced
1 tablespoon olive oil
Red-pepper flakes to taste

Directions

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1. Remove roast from refrigerator. Preheat oven to 500 degrees.
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2. 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.
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3. Turn off oven. Do not open oven door. Leave roast to continue cooking, undisturbed, for two hours.
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4. 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.