Description
There are a few dishes to beat a meat roast for dinner or a Sunday lunch and it's easy to see why. This topside roast beef is easy to make and has loads of comfort with every forkful!
Ingredients
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Roast Beef
- make sure your roasting tray and oven and stove top proof as we will be using both.
- 1.5 topside of beef (about 6 people serving)
- 2 Tsps. meat salt Smell and Taste
- 3 Tbsps. olive oil
Veg Base or Potato Trivet
- 2 celery stems (roughly chopped)
- 3 carrots (rinsed and roughly chopped no need to peel)
- 4 potatoes rinsed and chopped into smaller pieces
Gravy
- 1 Tbsp. Maizena or flour
- 5 Tbsps. dash of water to make a thin paste or slurry with the maizena (or use 5 tablespoons of water)
- Veggies and juices from the roasted beef (leave them in the pan when you remove the roast to rest_
- 2 Tsps. Beef stock powder
- 2 1/4 cups water
- Taste for salt and pepper (optional)
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 180 degrees C.
- Clean and chop the vegetables and add into the roasting tray.
- Pour the meat salt onto a small plate or bowl and pour the oil in. Make a paste that's not too thick so add oil if necessary. Rub onto the meat roast, place the meat over the vegetables and bake uncovered for 20 minutes.
- Lower the heat to 160 and continue roasting for another 35 minutes.
- Mix the Maizena with the dash of water and set aside. Add the stock powder into a jug, pour in the water, mix.
- Remove the meat from the oven, place on a separate plate and rest covered for 20 to 30 minutes.
Gravy
- Place the oven tray over the stove top and bring to a medium simmer, carefully add the maizena slurry while mixing it into the veggies and pan juices. Now carefully pour in the stock powder and water mix a little at a time depending on how much gravy you want. Taste for salt and pepper. Pour through a sift/colander keeping back the veggies, keep the aside in a jug.
- Serve up with the veggies! No use tossing them out because they're cooked tender and loaded with flavor. Optional (what I do) Keep the oven on after removing roast to rest. Make the gravy, put through a sieve/sift, toss the veggies back into the roasting tray, drizzle a bit of olive oil, turn the heat up to 220 and place the veggies back in the oven for 5 minutes or so to brown just slightly.
- Prep Time: 20 minutes
- Cook Time: 1 hour
- Category: Roast Dinner
Nutrition
- Calories: 202
- Sugar: 3
- Sodium: 472
- Fat: 8
- Saturated Fat: 1
- Carbohydrates: 30
- Fiber: 4
- Protein: 4
- Cholesterol: 1