Eye Round Roast au Jus

Preparation info
  • Serves

    6 to 7

    • Difficulty

      Easy

    • Ready in

      1 hr 55

Appears in
Cooking with the Firehouse Chef: The Food that Fuels New York’s Bravest

By Keith Young

Published 2005

  • About

What could be more satisfying than a nice hot roast on a cold winter night? Serve this with baked sweet potatoes and string beans and you’ve got a great meal. What I really like about an eye round is that it’s not expensive, it isn’t very fatty, it has great flavor, and it’s very tender.

Ingredients

  • 1 (5- to 6-pound) eye round of beef, rinsed and dried with paper towels
  • ¼ cup extra-virgin olive oil

Method

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.

Place the eye round in a roasting pan, rub with the oil, and season liberally on all sides with salt and pepper. Add the carrots, celery, onion, garlic, and 1 cup of the cold water to the pan and