Deli Style Roast Beef
Ingredients:- Equipment needed
- 1 large rimmed baking sheet
- Small wire rack
- Instant read meat thermometer
- Meat slicer
- Ingredients
- 2 ½ to 3 ½ pound eye of round roast
- None
- (top or bottom round or top sirloin or sirloin tip also work)
- 2 tablespoons olive oil or enough to coat all sides
- Seasoning mix
- 1 teaspoon kosher salt
- 1 teaspoon dried crushed rosemary
- 1 teaspoon dried thyme
- ¾ teaspoon fresh ground black pepper
- ¾ teaspoon granulated garlic or garlic powder
- ¾ teaspoon onion powder
- ½ teaspoon paprika
- ½ tablespoon freshly cracked black pepper
- Remove from refrigerator for 45 minutes to take chill off.
- Meanwhile
- preheat your oven to 500 °f.
- Coat with oil on all sides.
- Sprinkle all sides
- including the ends
- with the seasoning mix.
- Place your roast on a rack in a roasting pan with the fat cap side facing up.
- Transfer to the preheated oven and roast for 15 minutes until nicely browned.
- Reduce oven temperature to 300 °f and continue to roast for another 40 to 50 minutes or until internal temperature reads 130 °f and no more than 135 °f. (medium rare).
- Begin checking temperature after 35 minutes by inserting an instant read thermometer through the center of the roast from the side.
- Remove from oven and allow it to rest for 20 – 30 minutes.
- Refrigerate for several hours or overnight before slicing.
- Use a meat slicer or a sharp knife to slice the roast against the grain as thinly as possible.
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