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Shirley's Perfect Rare Roast Beef or Pork Tenderloin

Here's how you make Shirley's Perfect Rare Roast Beef or Pork Tenderloin
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  • Servings: 5
  • Prep: 5m
  • Cook: 1h
    • The following recipe serves 5 people.

Ingredients

The ingredients are:
  • ROAST BEEF
  • Beef roast (one roast, any size, tenderloin, tip, eye round, bottom round, rump, any one you like, you can use any size roast, just adjust the baking time accordingly)
  • 1 onion (cut into rings)
  • Garlic powder
  • PORK TENDERLOIN
  • Pork tenderloin (one pork tenderloin, you can use any size tenderloin, just adjust the baking time accordingly)
  • Black pepper, rubbed into roast
  • Herbs (of choice: rosemary, thyme, savory, Italian seasoning, rubbed all over roast)
  • Garlic powder or onion powder (or both), rubbed all over the roast
We recommend you get your ingredients ready before you start cooking. Once you're ready, here are the steps to making this delicious recipe

How to Make

  • Step 1: Preheat oven to 500 degrees. Wait for a few minutes before you put your roast in, so it gets as hot as possible.

  • Step 2: Put the room temperature roast in a SHALLOW pan. A cookie sheet works well.

  • Step 3: For The Roast Beef: Cut onion into thin rings, and put all over the top and sides of the roast using toothpicks if necessary. (I sit a few slices on the bottom of my roast too).

  • Step 4: Sprinkle roast generously with garlic powder, or to your liking. DO NOT SALT roast, or you will dry it out.

  • Step 5: Put roast in the oven on the middle rack. Bake 5 minutes per pound at 500 degrees F.

  • Step 6: After you bake your roast the 5 minutes per pound, turn the oven OFF and DO NOT OPEN for EXACTLY 1 hour. When the hour is up, take the roast out of the oven, and let sit for 15 minutes, to allow juices to distribute in the roast.

  • Step 7: For The Pork Tenderloin: Sprinkle Pork Tenderloin with black pepper, and herbs of choice. Rub in.

  • Step 8: After you bake your roast the 5 1/2 minutes per pound, turn the oven OFF and DO NOT OPEN for EXACTLY 1 hour. When the hour is up, take the tenderloin out of the oven, and let sit for 15 minutes, to allow juices to distribute in the roast.

  • Step 9: Roast Beef: I use my electric knife to cut my beef roast into 1/4 inch thick slices, and place on a serving dish.

  • Step 10: Pork Tenderloin: I cut my pork tenderloin roast into 1/2 inch thick pieces, and place on serving dish.

  • Step 11: Don't forget to make the gravy!

We hope you enjoy this recipe!

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