Rib of beef with roasted root vegetables and aged vinegar

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Preparation info
  • Serves

    4

    • Difficulty

      Medium

Appears in
The Richard Corrigan Cookbook

By Richard Corrigan

Published 1999

  • About

This dish has regularly featured on my menus through the years. It is a lovely way to cook rib of beef, which has a quality of meat that is finer than fillet. Giving balsamic vinegar this treatment makes it as mellow and flavourful as one that has been aged for 10 years or more.

Ingredients

  • 1 kg forerib of beef, with 1 rib bone
  • sunflower oil
  • small bunch

Method

Preheat the oven to 240°C/gas mark 9.

For the aged vinegar, put the vinegar, peppercorns, garlic, thyme, sugar and a pinch of salt in a small pan and bring to the boil. Remove from the heat and leave to infuse for 5 minutes. Strain the vinegar and return to the pan. Stir in the