Sunday Beef Rib Roast
- Makes: 10 servings
- Prep 30 mins
- Roast 1 hr to 2 hrs
- Stand 15 mins
Ingredients
-
1
recipe Herb-Bacon Topper, recipe below
-
1
4 -
5 -
pound
beef rib roast (chine bone removed)
-
1
teaspoon
cracked black peppercorns
-
1/2
teaspoon
salt
-
1
pound
baby carrots with tops, trimmed
-
1
pound
small red potatoes (halve any large potatoes)
-
3 -4
cups
baby spinach
-
1
15 -
ounce can
butter beans, rinsed and drained
Directions
- Prepare Herb-Bacon Topper. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Sprinkle beef roast with cracked pepper, salt, and half of the Herb-Bacon Topper (refrigerate remaining topper and reserved bacon pieces until ready to use). Place meat, bone side down, in a shallow roasting pan. Insert an oven-safe meat thermometer into center of roast.
- Roast, uncovered, for 45 minutes. Arrange carrots and potatoes around roast and toss to gently coat. Roast 1 to 1-1/4 hours more or until meat thermometer registers 135 degrees F for medium-rare. Sprinkle meat with remaining Herb-Bacon Topper; cover and let stand for 15 minutes. Temperature of meat after standing should be 145 degrees F. Push meat and carrots to one side of pan. Stir spinach and beans into drippings in other side of pan; sprinkle with reserved bacon pieces. Makes 10 servings.
Tip
- For added garlic flavor: Cut 3 garlic cloves into slivers. Before roasting, cut shallow slits all over meat; insert garlic slivers into slits. Roast as above.
Herb-Bacon Topper
Ingredients
- 4
slice
bacon
- 1
tablespoon
chopped fresh thyme
- 1 1/2
teaspoons
chopped fresh rosemary
Directions
- Cook bacon until crisp; drain on paper towels. Chop half the bacon; stir in thyme and rosemary. Break remaining half of the bacon into pieces to sprinkle into the spinach and beans before serving.
Nutrition Facts
(Sunday Beef Rib Roast)
Servings Per Recipe 10, sodium (mg) 468, iron (mg) 4, Monounsaturated fat (g) 14, Folate (µg) 24, sat. fat (g) 13, Pyridoxine (Vit. B6) (mg) 1, chol. (mg) 91, Niacin (mg) 5, Fat, total (g) 32, Riboflavin (mg) 0, carb. (g) 19, Thiamin (mg) 0, Trans fatty acid (g) 0, pro. (g) 32, vit. C (mg) 12, cal. (kcal) 492, vit. A (IU) 85, Potassium (mg) 999, sugar (g) 3, fiber (g) 4, calcium (mg) 71, Polyunsaturated fat (g) 1, Cobalamin (Vit. B12) (µg) 4