Beef Roast with Red-Wine Gravy
Beef Roast with Red-Wine Gravy might be just the main course you are searching for. This recipe makes 8 servings with 446 calories, 66g of protein, and 12g of fat each. This recipe covers 34% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. A mixture of thyme, salt and pepper, thyme, and a handful of other ingredients are all it takes to make this recipe so flavorful. To use up the flour you could follow this main course with the Apple Tart with Caramel Sauce as a dessert. It is a good option if you're following a dairy free diet. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes approximately 2 hours and 2 minutes.
Instructions
Make roast: Using a small, sharp knife, make slits all over beef roast and insert a piece of garlic deeply into each slit, so meat closes over garlic. In a small bowl, combine chopped thyme, mustard, onion powder, salt, pepper and olive oil. Rub mixture all over meat, place roast on a plate and refrigerate uncovered for 8 hours or overnight.
Transfer roast from refrigerator to countertop 1 hour before cooking. Preheat oven to 500F. Scatter onion wedges and thyme sprigs over bottom of a large roasting pan and place a rack on top.
Place roast in rack. Roast meat for 15 minutes, then reduce oven temperature to 325F and roast until a meat thermometer inserted in thickest part of roast registers 125F for medium rare, about 1 hour, or 135F for medium, about 1 hour 15 minutes. Check once or twice during roasting time; if juices start to scorch on bottom of pan, add a little broth or water.
Remove meat to a platter, cover loosely with foil and allow to rest. (Meat will continue to cook while it rests; internal temperature will rise to 130F for medium rare or 140F for medium.)
Remove rack from roasting pan.
Place pan over 2 burners and turn heat to medium. Stir in flour and cook, whisking, until brown, 2 to 3 minutes.
Pour in wine and broth and bring to a boil, scraping up browned bits from bottom of pan. Reduce heat to low and simmer for 10 minutes, whisking often. Strain through a fine-mesh sieve into a serving dish and season with salt and pepper.
Remove strings from roast, slice meat and serve with gravy.