Cooking a roast beef for dinner.?!

Best Answer - Chosen by Voters

It is crucial that you allow the roast to come to room temperature to ensure even-cooking. This means leaving it out for up to two full hours right before roasting.

Preheat your oven to 450 degrees.

Use a paper towel to pat the roast dry.

Rub butter on the cut ends of the roast.

Create a seasoning rub or paste with ingredients such as pepper, coarse salt, garlic powder, and onion powder. Make a series of ? inch deep slits all over the top of the roast as well as the sides. Rub your seasonings all over the roast, covering all exposed meat.

Place the roast in a heavy metal roasting pan, bone-side down.

No matter what size roast you have, you will start it in a pre-heated 450 degree oven for 15 minutes then reduce the temperature to 325 degrees for the balance of cooking time. Cooking times will vary depending on size of the roast and desired level of doneness.
About 1 ? to 1 ? hours at 325

Enjoy

POT ROAST


heat oven to 325 degrees
put one, 2 1/2lb pot roast dredged in 1/4 c flour in a large pot with 2 tbsp of hot oil, brown on all sides.
Add 1/2 cup beef stock, 1/4cup balsamic vinegar , one bay leaf a pinch of thyme, one large onion quartered or 4 small halved, add 4 carrots cut in half.
1 head of garlic seperated and peeled
Put in oven covered for 2 1/2hrs take out roast and set aside, thicken gravy with 1/2c cold water poured in to 1/4 c of flour stir and add to simmering juices.
Juices must be almost boiling to get a thickened gravy. serve with mashed potatoes and corn

The easiest and most fool-proof thing to do is to put the roast in a crock pot and sprinkle in a package of Lipton Onion Soup Mix over it. Then, set it on low and let it cook for a good 4 or 5 hours. Don't add any water or it will dilute the beef flavor, and don't lift the lid. When it's done, it's "fall-aparty" tender, caramelized on the outside and you can make gravy out of the juice at the bottom for your potatoes.

Brown it on both sides in a little butter or olive oil. Salt and pepper is all the spice you need unless you want to kick it up a notch. You can add garlic or onion powder. Maybe even a little paprika. Once it's browned, put it in a 350 degree oven for an hour and a half without peeking. You can also put potatoes, carrots, and onions on top prior to putting into the oven.

It depends on the cut of meat. If you have an Eye of Round or another more tender cut, oven roast it with salt, pepper and garlic rub.

If it is a Bottom Round or Chuck Roast, use your vinegar, but sparingly and make a pot roast with salt, pepper garlic and add sliced onion to the liquid. I would have started it around noon so it had plenty of time to get tender as it simmered.