Roast beef dinner from Celebrity Operation Transformation.
Ingredients
Serves: 2
Calories: 410
- 500g topside beef or housekeepers cut
- *250g for this recipe, and use leftover beef for tomorrow night’s dish
- 250g potatoes, peeled
- 200g broccoli, cut into florets
- 1 large carrot, chopped
- 1 medium onion, chopped
- 2 cloves garlic, crushed
- 2 sprigs fresh rosemary
Food Staples
- 2 teaspoons butter
- 1 teaspoon flour
- ½ beef stock cube, made with 100mls water
Method
- Pre-heat oven to 220C / 200C fan
- Place chopped onions, garlic cloves and rosemary in a roasting dish
- Place beef on top of onions, garlic and rosemary mix
- Place dish in oven and cook for 1 - 1 ½ hours until beef is cooked through
- Place potatoes in a pot of boiling water and cook for approximately 15-20 minutes until tender
- Steam carrots and broccoli until tender
- Drain water from potatoes, add butter and mash together
For the Gravy
- When beef is cooked, rest the meat for 10 – 15 minutes
- Once rested, remove as much of the fat as you can from your roasting dish
- You will be left with onions, garlic cloves and juice from the beef
- Pour through a sieve into a pot so that just the liquid remains in a pot
- Place pot on medium heat and gradually add the stock, add 1 teaspoon of flour to the pot and stir everything together until your gravy thicken
