Roast Top Round Beef Roast with Yorkshire Pudding
Ingredients
1 cup all purpose flour
1⁄2 teaspoon salt
1 cup milk
2 large eggs
1 (4 1⁄2 to 5 pound) top round, patted dry
16 cloves garlic, peeled and sliced in half if large
1 tablespoon fresh thyme, chopped, or 1 teaspoon dried thyme
2 teaspoons salt
1 teaspoon seasoned salt, such as Emeril’s Essence
1 teaspoon ground black pepper
2 tablespoons olive oil
12 small sprigs fresh thyme
Instructions
1. Heat oven to 400*F.
2. Combine flour and salt in medium bowl. In another medium bowl, beat eggs. Add milk to eggs then gradually add egg mixture to flour, mixing to make a smooth batter. Let rest 1 hour at room temperature.
3. Put roast in small roasting pan. Make sixteen 1⁄2-inch deep slits in roast with small knife and insert clove of garlic into each slit.
4. Combine thyme, salt, seasoned salt, and pepper in small bowl. Stir in oil to make paste. Rub paste on all sides of roast and place thyme sprigs under roast. Roast for 1 hour.
5. Remove pan from oven and turn roast for even browning. Reduce temperature to 350*F and continue roasting until instant read thermometer reads 125*F to 130*F for medium rare, about 45 minutes. (Mine was done much faster than this.) Remove from oven and let rest 15 minutes before carving.
5. While roast is resting, increase oven temperature to 450*F. Pour off all but 3 tablespoons of hot pan drippings, adding hot melted butter if necessary to reach 3 tablespoons of fat. Place pan in oven to stay hot while oven comes to temperature.
6. Pour batter into roasting dish and bake, without opening oven door, until risen and golden brown, 15 to 20 minutes. Remove from oven and serve immediately.
Comments
This recipe is from Emeril and I’ve been avoiding posting it because my preparation of it was full of fail. I’m not sure what I did wrong which is also bothersome. The meat was tasty and flavorful, the garlic studding was great. The Yorkshire pudding was flat and floppy. My plan is to read up on Yorkshire pudding recipes before trying this again to try to figure out where I messed up.
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