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Cooking a delicious roast beef doesn’t have to be complicated.   A good top-round cut of beef makes a wonderful dinner and you don’t have to spend the entire day in the kitchen making it.   With the right roast beef recipe, a few simple ingredients, and a little planning, you can have a perfectly cooked roast.

When cooking a roast,  always use a good digital thermometer, like the iGrill2 by Weber. By placing the thermometer right in the center,  or the thickest part of the roast you can get a perfect rare to medium rare center.   This allows cuts of meat with varied doneness for different preferences.   Rare to medium-rare in the middle, well done on the ends.

Fresh butter, thyme, rosemary,  salt and pepper make a simple, yet delicious roast rub.  I’m sure you will love it!

Refer to foodsafety.gov for safe food handling.

Ingredients:

1. 4 lbs top-round roast beef at room temperature
2.  ½ cup butter (softened) 
3. 1 ½ tbsp freshly chopped rosemary
4.  1 ½ tbsp fresh thyme
5. 1 tbsp kosher salt 
6. 1 tbsp freshly ground pepper

Directions:

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• preheat oven to 450 degrees Fahrenheit. 
• pat the roast with a paper towel until dry
  

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• mix fresh chopped herbs and salt and pepper with the softened butter.
  

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• spread butter mixture over entire roast and place it into roasting pan.
  

*Vegetables can be added around the roast at this time if wanted.

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• place roast in a preheated oven and then immediately turn heat down to 325℉
• cook for about 1 hour and 15 minutes, or to the desired cooking temperature
  

* This roast was removed when internal temperature had reached 135℉. 

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• remove roast from oven and let the meat rest for 15 minutes before slicing. 
  

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