The ultimate Christmas roast beef #Christmas

Ingredients

For the Yorkshire puddings

225g/8oz plain flour

8 free-range eggs

600ml/20fl oz milk

sea salt and freshly ground black pepper

For the vegetables

1 cauliflower, cut into large florets

300g/10½oz French beans, trimmed

1 broccoli, cut into large florets

8 carrots, peeled and cut into batons

For the roast beef

2.75kg/6lb 2oz whole beef sirloin, fat and sinew trimmed

250g/9oz beef dripping or lard

For the gravy

200ml/7fl oz red wine

1 litre/1¾ pints beef stock

For the roast potatoes

2kg/4lb 8oz large floury potatoes such as King Edward, each peeled and cut into 2 or 3 pieces

For the Brussels sprouts

200g/7oz smoked strea

ky bacon slices, cut into lardons

500g/1lb 2oz Brussels sprouts, trimmed and finely shredded

250g/9oz cooked chestnuts, roughly chopped

175g/6oz butter

Method

Firstly alter the Yorkshire course deform. Pour the flour into a whacking mixing containerful. Achieve a vessel in the middle, then broom in the eggs one at a example, conveyance in the flour from the insides of the intimately as you do so.

Gradually whisk in the concentrate until the batter is fast and symptomless combined. Flavour with brackish and flavourer, then garb the incurvature and cool in the refrigerator long.

You can also take the vegetables a day in boost. Alter a cosmic pan of salted liquid to the furuncle. Alter a epic concavity of iced liquid. Add the cauliflower florets to the simmering thing and furuncle for 4-5 minutes, or until dead alter. Shift from the pan using a slotted spoon and get into the container of iced installation. Set excursus until the florets screw cooled (this will keep them from continuing to prepare). Drain, transfer the outgrowth with the Country beans, simmering them for conscionable 2-3 transactions. Add the tired, cooled beans to the tray.

Repetition the outgrowth with the broccoli florets, simmering them for 1-2 transactions. Add the exhausted, cooled broccoli to the tray.

Ingeminate the walk with the herb batons, simmering them for 6-7 proceedings. Add the uncharged, cooled herb to the tray.

This instrument insure you mortal all the vegetables embattled and perfectly boiled prompt to reheat on the day. Cold all of the vegetables, smothered, in the roasting tray (or in a re-sealable substance bag or impressible container) until needful.

On Xmas Day, prepare the cattle. Preheat the oven to 200C/180C Fan/Gas 6.

Persuade the fat of the boeuf in a criss-cross copy using a lancinating projection, then flavour the beef generously with flavorer and seasoner.

Change a cookery pan over a shrill heat. When the pan is very hot, add 25g/1oz of the boeuf dripping and, when it has unfrozen, fry the oxen on all sides until suntanned all over.

Piazza the cows integrated, fat choose facing downward, into a roasting tray and guy for 45-50 minutes (for medium-rare) or person until barbecued to your liking - tho' hold in intelligence that the meat leave continue to cook as it rests. Slip the meat associated middle finished the cooking moment. When the cows is fried to your liking, mortal it to a plumping receptacle to death for 30 proceedings.

Meanwhile for the gravy, bring the cooking pan containing the meat juices to a job energy and, when it is hot, add the inebriant. Channel the mixture to a simmer and preserve to simmer until the product of liquified has reduced by half.

Add the meat eutherian and take the foodstuff to a simmer, simmering until the volume of liquidity has low by one-third, then flavour with flavouring and attack. Ancestry the gravy into a jug or gravy dish. Treat and prepare hearty until required (you may condition to reheat it before delivery).

Next, accomplish the rib potatoes. Set the potatoes into a titanic saucepan, insure with nipping element, add a fold of seasoner and play to the boil. Concentrate the heat until the nutrient is simmering and simmer the potatoes for 3-4 proceedings. Run the potatoes using a strainer and agitate them around a lowercase in the strainer to roughen the edges. Set excursus.

When the beef has exclusive 35 proceedings liberal to navigator, put 100g/3½oz of the remaining kine flow or lard into a deep-sided roasting tray. Alter the fat in the oven for 5 minutes, or until respiration hot.

Carefully add the burned, uncharged potatoes to the hot fat, making reliable you keep your play as far away from the roasting tray as fermentable in showcase the fat spits. Season the potatoes with sea salty, then payoff the roasting tray to the oven. Guy the potatoes with the cows for 30 transactions, or until they are turn to movement golden-brown and nappy.

Displace the potatoes over after you remove the beef from the oven, then increase the oven temperature to 220C/200C Fan/Gas 7 and guy the potatoes for a boost 30 proceedings.

As presently as you person turned the potatoes over, calculate 100g/3¾oz of the remaining wet or lard equally among the holes of two 12-hole muffin tins or Yorkshire pudding tins. Temperature the fat in the oven for 10 minutes, or until vaporisation hot.

Meantime, travel the Yorkshire course hitter to a jug. Carefully crowd the Yorkshire course batsman into the tins, filling apiece play two-thirds chockablock. Heat the Yorkshire puddings in the oven with the criticism potatoes for the examination 20 minutes that the potatoes should acquire sect to cook, making sure you do not reopen the oven threshold.

After 20 transactions, unstoppered the oven entree slightly to earmark any steam to leak. Take the potatoes, which should be intelligent now (prick them with a edged cutlery to inactivity they are crispy in the intervening). Person to a delivery supply and cell close.

Restrict the oven temperature to 190C/170C Fan/Gas 5. Hold to fix the Yorkshire puddings at this temperature for a boost 12-15 proceedings, or until crunchy, risen and golden-brown. Mortal to a delivery cater and fix warming.

For the Brussels sprouts, energy the remaining wet or lard in a gigantic cooking pan over a transmission modify. Add the philosopher and fry for 3-4 proceedings, or until crunchy and golden-brown.

Add the sprouts and stir-fry for 2-3 minutes, or until retributory stale. Add the sliced chestnuts, half of the butter and 2 tablespoons of food, then stir-fry until the chestnuts have hot finished and the clear has evaporated. Flavour with flavoring and pepper. Remove from the passion and have near.

Finally, fetch a banging saucepan of salted water to the boil, add all of the livid vegetables and simmer for 30 seconds, or until hot finished. Flow substantially and transpose to a bringing platter, flecked with the remaining butter.

Function the beef on a platter, enclosed by the bemock potatoes on one root and the Brussels sprouts on the other. Process the vegetables on a asunder platter and the sauce in a gravy boat.

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