Thursday, March 26, 2009

Roast Beef w/ Spicy Parsley Tomato Sauce


We had this last weekend and I can only say Tom out-did himself on this one!
If you're lucky enough, maybe some night you will stop by for dinner with the Sheasby's and we'll be serving this one -only to be topped off with Apple Tart!


Roast Beef with Spicy Parsley Tomato Sauce


Prep Time: 30 minutes
Cook Time: 40 minutes to 1 hour [depending on how well-done you want]
Serves: 4-6

Ingredients:
1 [2-2.5 pound] Sirloin tip or beef chuck roast
3 T Olive Oil
4 Roma Tomatoes, cut in half
2 tsp Herb de Provence
Kosher salt and freshly ground pepper

Spicy Parsley Sauce
1 1/2 C fresh parsley
2 garlic cloves
1/2 tsp red pepper flakes [more or less depending]
3/4 tsp kosher salt
3/4 tsp freshly ground pepper
2 T red wine vinegar
1/2 C extra-virgin olive oil

Directions:
Roast: Preheat oven to 375 degrees F
Season the beef with salt and pepper. Season the tomatoes with salt, pepper and herb de Provence.
Place a medium, heavy roasting pan or dutch oven over high heat. Heat the olive oil. Sear the beef over high heat on ALL sides.
Turn off heat. Place seasoned tomatoes around the seared beef and place the pan in the oven.
Roast until the beef reads 130 degrees F [for medium rare], 30-40 minutes.
Take the roast out of the oven, tent loosely with foil and let rest for 10-15 minutes. the internal temperature of meat should rise 5 degrees more and the juices will re-distribute into the roast.

Sauce:
Place the parsley and garlic in a food processor and pulse until finely chopped. Add the red pepper flakes, salt, red wine vinegar and the roasted tomatoes from beef pan and process until pureed. Add the olive oil in a steady stream with the machine running.

To Serve:
Slice the roast and place on a serving platter. Drizzle a little sauce over the meat. Serve the remaining sauce in a small bowl along side.

Recipe Courtesy of Food Network and Giada De Laurentiis -MWUAH!

Enjoy! ~Breeze

2 comments:

greekwitch said...

You should be ashamed of yourself! You made me cook! And that is never good...Thank goddess for the fire department!

Mystery said...

HeyThere GW!
So did you actually get to enjoy anything or did it all go up in flames? :o)
How did it turn out....and which item did you make the Roast? I made some rice to go with mine and the sauce was soo lovely on everything, about the only thing I didn't put it on was the hubby. What a shame now that I look back that could have been fun! haha. We'll stick with the sweet over savory for that anyways huh? :o)
Hope you enjoyed the recipe; and I am working on putting some notes together for some more posts soon.
Take Care and thanks for sharing.
~Breeze