Thanks to everyone who entered last week’s giveaway! You guys really love your mac n’ cheese, which makes me think I should post my favorite recipe for it. Anyway, if you haven’t commented on that post yet, you still can and you’ll be entered to win Everyday Food: Fresh Flavor Fast
The second cookbook in the giveaway is one of my favorite resources: How to Cook Everything
Let’s talk about that recipe now, shall we? When I was organizing my recipe and ingredient indexes for the redesign, I realized that in two years I’ve only posted two recipes with beef. There is tons and tons of chicken and even a good amount of pork so adding more beef is something I definitely need to work on. I’ve not always been a big fan of red meat, but I’m coming around to it. I’ve mentioned before that I get tired of eating chicken all the time and while I still do eat chicken more than other meats, lately I’ve been making an effort to have at least one beef, one pork and one seafood dish each week.
Big slabs of beef have always been intimidating to me so the main thing that attracted me to try this recipe is how simple it is. The main thing that will keep me making this dish over and over is how flavorful it is, despite it’s simplicity. Just insert some slices of garlic and rub it with some herbs and then you let the oven do the rest. Brandon is always less than excited when I say we are having roast beef for dinner, but this finally won him over. I guess his mom made some pretty crappy roasts when he was a kid and he didn’t know it could taste so good! If you have a similar reaction give this one a try, it’s pretty much fool-proof. (Just make sure to have an instant-read thermometer, so you can test for doneness.)
And the peppers, onions and potatoes? Probably my favorite side dish ever. Cut them up and throw them on the pan with some olive oil and let them roast to perfection. Honestly, I’d be happy with a dinner that was just potatoes, peppers and onions because I love them that much, but of course they go great with this roast. They’d work great with roasted chicken, too.
This recipe is from the first cookbook of the giveaway Everyday Food: Fresh Flavor Fast
Roast Beef with Peppers, Onions and Potatoes
adapted from Everyday Food: Fresh Flavor Fast
Dinner | Servings: 4
Prep time: 15 min | Cook time: 1 hour | Total time: 1 hour 25 min
Ingredients
- 3/4 lb new white potatoes, scrubbed and cut into 1 inch pieces*
- 5 mixed red and yellow bell peppers, ribs and seeds removed, cut into 1 inch wide strips*
- 2 red onions, halved lengthwise and cut into 1 inch wedges
- 5 garlic cloves: 3 whole, 2 cut into 6 slivers each
- 2 tbsp. olive oil
- Course salt (I prefer sea salt, but kosher is fine, too)
- Pepper
- 2 – 2 1/2 lbs. eye-of-round beef roast
- 3/4 tsp. dried thyme
*Note: I increased the potatoes to 1 or 1.5 lbs. and used 4 peppers instead. I love potatoes and 3/4 lb. just didn’t seem like enough!
Process
- Preheat the over to 400 degrees (F).
- Place potatoes, peppers, onions and whole garlic cloves on a large rimmed baking sheet. (You’ll probably need to use two baking sheets unless you have a commercial sized baking sheet
— that’s what mine is and I love it — or you are halving the amount of vegetables.) Drizzle with 1 tbsp. oil and season with salt and pepper, toss well. - Using a small knife, make 12 small slits in the top and sides of the roast and insert the garlic slivers.
- Combine 1 1/2 tsp. salt, 1/2 tsp. pepper and thyme in a small bowl. Set aside.
- Place roast in the center of the baking sheet, moving any vegetables out of the way. Rub with remaining tablespoon of oil. Then rub the salt and pepper mixture all over the beef.
- Place in oven and roast, tossing vegetables occasionally, until tender and cooked to your liking, 40-60 minutes. An instant-read thermometer inserted into the thickest part should be 130-135 degrees for medium-rare, 140-145 for medium.
- Cover loosely with foil and let meat stand for 10 minutes. Cut into thin slices and serve with vegetables.
Nutrition info:
Serving size: 1/4 of the roast and 1/4 vegetables
Calories: 352
Fat: 10.8g
Carbohydrates: 29.2g
Fiber: 5.3g
Protein: 34.8g
I love Mark Bittman’s books. Great photos!
Looks wonderful! This one is a forsure “TRY!”. Thanks!
I do love roast beef. I’m not a big pork fan, mine unfortunately always comes out dry!
Yeah, a lot of times I make pork chops they come out dry because I can never tell if they’re done or not! I’ve started cooking pork tenderloin a lot lately because it doesn’t have that problem. It always turns out good!
yum!!!! I love roasted veggies and potatoes!!! I could skip the beef though!!! lol..but my husband would not like that!!! ;0)
Yep, Brandon is the same way. He thinks it’s not a full meal unless it has a meat. I try to do one day a week that has no meat, though, usually some type of pasta.
This book sounds really interesting….Thank you and count me in too!!!
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my love of meat seems to be waning, but i’ll never pass up a burger. fowl isn’t foul and pig has its place, but for some reason, steak and roast beef have never been my thing!
I cook meat for the family, but since I’m not fond of meat, I know I don’t do the meal justice.
I do eat meat but I can only tolerate if finely shredded.
A How To cookbook would greatly benefit my family! Thanks for the chance.
I don’t eat other meats besides chicken & beef, occasionally Turkey. I tend to use ground beef over and over again, and forget about using the larger cuts. More recipes on that would be good! Being British, we always used to do Sunday roast dinners, even after we moved to the states, so roast beef is something of a comfort food for me!
I still quite like a well cooked piece of meat. However, I wonder if I weren’t with my husband whether I might lean a little more toward vegetarian (not completely but somewhat). Anyway, I would love to win this great book! Thanks,
I’m a visual learner, and this would be a fantastic tool for getting it right!
This recipe is so inviting that … I would like to reach out and cross the computer screen to take a bite of this fabulous roast, good!!! I love meat, although I not eat it very often. I often come to read your recipes and thinking about it now, in your site there aren’t many recipes for meat, except for those with the chicken. I would like some more recipes with beef, veal and pork!
Thank you for the great giveaway and love from Italy!
Barbara
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This recipe looks fantastic! I’m not always a huge fan of roast beef, but I’m definitely going to have to overcome that and make this soon. As for meats I do love to eat: a good rare steak (yum!), ham, chicken, and BACON! 🙂
Oh meat glorious meat. I love all kinds of meat, except fish. I would have to say the meat I most love to cook with is probably sirlion or tenderloin. I would like to see some more authentic ethnic foods, like fried rice, jerk chicken etc. Thanks for the opportunity to enter my name.