Roast Beef and Gravy Recipe

Preparation info
    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
The Great Book Of Yorkshire Pudding

By Elaine Lemm

Published 2018

  • About

The best joints for a roast beef are rib, sirloin or fillet. Rib works well as usually it will be cooked on the bone. Keeping the bone in makes for a tastier piece of beef when cooked but both Sirloin and Fillet are very good. Choose meat which has a thick covering of fat to add flavour and prevent the joint from drying out during cooking and is marbled which means you can see small slivers of fat running through the flesh, this again adds flavour and prevents drying out during cooking. The