Ingredients

The following ingredients have 5 Servings
  • 1 beef roast, like top, eye or bottom round, approximately 3 pounds
  • 1 tablespoon kosher salt
  • 1 tablespoon freshly ground black pepper
  • 3 cloves garlic, peeled and minced
  • 1 tablespoon olive oil
  • Red-pepper flakes to taste

Instruction

  • Remove roast from refrigerator. Preheat oven to 500 degrees.
  • In a small bowl, mix together salt, pepper, garlic, olive oil and red-pepper flakes to create a kind of paste. Rub this all over the roast. Place beef in a roasting pan or cast-iron skillet, fat-side up, and put in oven. Cook undisturbed for 5 minutes per pound.
  • Turn off oven. Do not open oven door. Leave roast to continue cooking, undisturbed, for two hours.
  • After two hours, remove roast from oven. Slice and serve alongside, ideally, a watercress salad, some skillet-fried potatoes and a small tureen of <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/recipes/1014493/Henry-Bain-Sauce.html">Henry Bain sauce</a>.