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One-pan mini-roast with fondant potatoes (Christmas dinner for 1 or 2)



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***RECIPE***

1 beef teres major muscle
1 russet or other baking potato
frozen pearl onions
garlic
fresh thyme
stock
balsamic vinegar
salt
pepper
oil
butter

Peel the potato and cut it into 3 or 4 thick rounds. Get an oven-safe pan really hot to sear the beef, which you can oil and season while you’re waiting. Drop in the beef to sear, along with some more oil to sear the potatoes on their flat sides at the same time — season the potatoes on both sides as you go.

Take out the beef to rest before it’s done inside. When the potatoes are seared, get any excess oil out of the pan, then drop in a few tablespoons of butter along with a crushed garlic clove or two and some thyme sprigs. Baste the potatoes, and once the butter has gone golden brown pour in enough stock to come a third of the way up the potatoes. Transfer the pan to an oven at 400ºF/200ºC and roast until almost but not quite one inside — they should still resist a knife to the center a little bit.

When the potatoes are almost done, remove and discard the garlic and any thyme stems you can find. Push the potatoes to one side of the pan and drop in some pearl onions (still frozen is fine), toss them in the sauce, and return the pan to the oven for about five minutes. After that, lay the roast on the bed of onions and let the roast finish cooking until done to your satisfaction inside.

Take the pan out and remove the meat to rest. Turn the heat back on under the pan to further reduce the sauce until thick if needed and adjust the flavor with seasoning and a splash of balsamic vinegar. Slice the beef and lay the slices on the onions to reheat. Garnish with fresh thyme leaves and eat it straight out of the pan if you’re into that.

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  1. That temp check of the splash of water in the pan reminds me of my temp check – frozen cocoa butter. Yeah, it smells like chocolate while melting, but plain cocoa butter has very little noticable taste, and seeing a few small bits of it melt tells me I can put in dairy butter and know it is ready to melt it.

  2. I'm about to move out and I'm looking at what pans I should get, would carbon steel be a good pick for universal use?

    It's either that or stainless steel but the non stick properties of carbon steel are pushing me that way

  3. You know which other carbon steel pans are used in Michelin star restaurants around the world? The inexpensive house brand pans from their local restaurant supply store. If you dont have a restaurant supply store (unlikely), there are web restaurant stores. A Web-staurant store, if you will.

  4. Thank you for going back to actual recipies and cooking videos. Please separate your podcast episodes to another channel. I don't come to a video site to watch podcasts and every time YT asks why I am not interested I have to say "I don't like this video" without even watching it.

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