Easy Roast Beef with Potatoes
Simple Roast Beef with Potatoes recipe with one secret ingredient to take it to a whole new level.
Ingredients
- 2 lb Beef Round
- 1 head Garlic, Peeled and Roughly Diced
- 3 Large Carrots, Roughly Chopped
- 1 lb Potatoes You can use small potatoes or larger ones cut into smaller pieces
- 1 Medium Purple Onion, Roughly Chopped
- 1/4 cup Olive Oil
- 1 tsp Salt
- 2 tsp Black Pepper, Cracked
- 1 tsp MSG MSG can be purchased as Ajinomoto in many specialty Asian stores or as Ac’cent in major grocery retailers.
- 3 springs Fresh Rosemary
- 3 springs Fresh Thyme
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 375 F
- In a cast iron pan heated medium, add half of the olive oil and half the garlic into pan
- Add salt, pepper, and MSG to each side of the beef round
- Once pan is hot, sear each side of the beef round until a golden brown colour forms
- Add carrots, potatoes, onions, herbs and the rest of the olive oil in the pan around the beef
- Cook in oven for about 1 hour. This will cook the roast to medium. (Please note that depending on how thick your beef round is, you may need to cook it more or less)
- Remove from the oven and cover with tin foil and let it rest for 15 minutes before carving.
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