Rustic Roast

Roast Beef

The sun was out, it has been a great and productive day. In the kitchen cooking for a family and friends, it was a roast,  my adopted cooking.  Roasted meat, chicken, or lamb are all delicious if you love eating meat.  The method of cooking is not hard, only the serving time has to be time to have an excellent tender and juicy meat, hot vegetables and gravy.

It was cooking for five people, the joint was a topside beef.   I decided to be practical to cook it; however I did it with respect but simply.  The garnishes were pumpkin, carrot and potatoes.  I could not help to do the Yorkshire pudding, and they were large, light and fluffy.

Rustic Roasted Beef with Vegetables and Yorkshire pudding

The pumpkin, potatoes, carrots are roasted and unpeeled that's what I meant by rustic and straightforward. The Yorkshire pudding is large, golden and resting upside down to drain the dripping.  

The beef was roasted, sitting over halved brown and red onions, I did not put it over a rack. The flavour of the onions and the meat was what I needed to have a sweet and delicious dark brown gravy.
The time for cooking was only 80 minutes to roast the beef, and the vegetables. The meat was rested for  25 minutes, in the meantime, the Yorkshire pudding was baked as the batter was prepared three hours earlier.  Straightforward cooking,  no fuss, sincere and generous food to share with friends.

The Preparations
Rub the meat with mustard, pepper, salt and oil
rest it on the halved white and red onion

Roast the beef in hot oven 200 degrees C for 20 minutes

reduce the heat to 175 degrees, continue cooking for 60 minutes

Cover the meat with foil to rest for 20-25 minutes

The vegetables were roasted together with the beef

continue cooking the veg until they are cooked, while

the meat was resting.

The Yorkshire Pudding

The batter for the Yorkshire pudding, a cup everyday flower, oil, salt
2 eggs and 2/3 cup water.  Mix all together, to make a smooth batter
rest it in the fridge for a few hours

The smooth mixture for the Yorkshire pudding is ready to relax

Baking the Yorkshire pudding. 

Heat the tin with oil/dripping until smoky hot, pour the batter
and bake for 22 minutes.

Take it out, turn the pudding upside down to drain the oil

Beautiful, golden, light and fluffy Yorkshire pudding

It was a practical, simple cooking but a successful one.

A roast dinner has become the family favourite since the seventies, and now my children cook roasts at their own home for their family.  Cooking with no fuss can be enjoyable, and it takes the stress out, things become more comfortable.

Sunday Roast is indeed in our vocabulary, and we're all loving it.

Until Next Post

Thanks For Visiting

Susy