French Roasted Beef

Total Time: 13 mins Preparation Time: 10 mins Cook Time: 3 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 8
• 5 lbs beef roast, eye round is good
• 2 teaspoons coarse salt (optional)
• 2 tablespoons cooking oil
• ground black pepper

Recipe

• 1 sprinkle salt over roast. wrap tightly and refrigerate for 12 hours. remove roast from refrigerator, unwrap, place on a wire rack in a shallow pan, cover and let sit until it reaches room temperature. discard wrap.
• 2 preheat oven to 225 degrees f.
• 3 prepare another shallow pan with a wire rack in it. place in oven to heat.
• 4 pat the roast dry, rub 1 t oil evenly over the meat. pepper roast.
• 5 in a heavy pan, cast iron is best, place remaining t of oil. heat almost to smoke.
• 6 with kitchen tongs, place the roast into hot pan. sear on each side for 3-4 minutes each.
• 7 remove pan and roast from heat.
• 8 place roast on warmed rack in preheated oven.
• 9 use a probe thermometer to monitor temperature.
• 10 you want to try to keep the internal temperature of the roast below 122 degrees. adjust oven temperature as needed, or open door briefly, to keep that temperature down.
• 11 for a medium rare roast, cook to 115, remove from oven. turn oven off. (a 5 pound roast will take around 2 hours in my oven to reach 115 degrees.) leave roast in oven until thermometer reaches 130 f for medium rare. this will take 30 to 50 minutes longer.
• 12 if your roast is not coming up to temperature, turn the oven back on to 225 for 5 minutes, turn it off and finish.
• 13 when roast is at 130 f, transfer to cutting board and let rest 15 minutes.
• 14 slice and serve.