Roast beef with garlic crust
Roast beef with garlic crust recipe in the beef category
Recipe ingredients:
- 1, 3 to 3 1/2 pounds, chuck eye, rolled cross rib or prime rib roast
- 1/4 cup olive oil
- 3 cloves garlic, peeled and crushed
- 1 cup bread crumbs
- 1/4 cup chopped fresh parsley
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 teaspoon black pepper
Recipe method:
- Wipe roast and place on roasting rack. Heat oil in skillet.
- Add garlic. Saute 2 minutes pressing juice from garlic into oil.
- Discard garlic. Mix in bread crumbs, parsley, salt and black pepper.
- Press mixture onto roast, coating well.
- Insert roast thermometer in thickest portion of muscle.
- Roast at 325 degrees F until meat thermometer registers 140 degrees F for rare, 18 to 20 minutes per pound, or 160 degrees F for medium, 20 to 25 minutes per pound, or 170 degrees F for well done, 20 to 25 minutes per pound.
- Remove from oven. Allow to stand 15 to 20 minutes before carving.
- The garlic crumb coating helps keep juice inside the meat.
- It can be used on rump roasts or any other cut of meat with very little fat covering.