Friday, September 30, 2011

Herb Crusted Roast Beef with Horseradish Cream

Well hello there old blog! Summer has been crazy and not my cooking has gone on in our kitchen. More dust lines the shelves than food! I found this recipe on Food Network, and made a few tweaks to it. It was GREAT! The original recipe calls for all fresh herb, and much more of them (2 cups fresh parsley...) but I didn't have any fresh herbs on hand, so just used dried!

1 3 lb boneless roast
salt and pepper
1/2 c plus 2 T oil
3 T powdered garlic, plus 3 cloves pressed
4 T dried parsley
2 T dried thyme
2 T dried oregano
2 T dried rosemary
2 T mustard powder

Horseradish Sauce
1/2 c sour cream (I used top the tater... it was really tasty!)
2 T horseradish
1 T lemon juice
(mix all together and serve)

For the roast...

Preheat oven to 350 degrees

Salt and pepper roast, brown with 2 T oil on all sides until caramelized. Remove from pan, place on rack on cookie sheet. Mix all dried ingredients with enough of the 1/2 c oil to make a paste. Spread over all sides of roast. Insert meat thermometer and cook medium rare to 125 degrees (if you have an electric one it's really easy... I just set it so the timer went off when it hit 125). I was waiting for Adam to get up, so let mine go to 15o degrees and it was done and still moist. It took a little less than 2 hours... much quicker than I thought it would!

Slice and serve with horseradish sauce!

Sunday roast any night of the week!