Rib of beef with spring veg and anchovy butter

Name: Rib of beef with spring veg and anchovy butter
Yield: Serves 4
Ingredients: 200 g purple sprouting broccoli; 150 g softened butter; 200 g bunch of asparagus; sea salt; 50 g tinned brown anchovy fillets, drained; 1 garlic bulb, cut in half across; 10 g thyme; sunflower oil; 100 g butter; 2 kg rib of beef

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Changing Tides

By Roberta Hall McCarron

Published 2024

About

When you have good-quality beef it doesn’t need much done to it. I like my food to be punchy, and the anchovy butter is exactly that.

Ingredients

Rib of Beef

2 kg rib of beef
sunflower oil
100 g butter

Main course
Gluten-free
Spring

Method

Preheat your oven to 120°C fan.

Season the beef all over with about a tablespoon of sea salt. In a hot pan with a splash of sunflower oil, sear the beef for 8 to 10 minutes until it has a really good colour all over. Turn the heat down a little, then add the butter, the halv