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Black curry roast beef

A delicious black curry roast beef to fill every bite with exotic spices that will transfer your loved ones to Sri Lanka's southern coast in an instant.
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Prep Time 5 minutes
Cook Time 1 hour 15 minutes
Servings: 8
Course: Dinner
Cuisine: American, Sri lankan american
Ingredients Equipment Method Notes

Ingredients
  

  • 4 lb sirloin tip roast
Seasoning
  • 2 tbsp black curry powder
  • 1 tbsp Worcestershire sauce
  • 2 tbsp black pepper
  • 1½ tbsp salt
  • 1 tsp mustard seeds
  • 1 tbsp onion powder
  • 5 cloves of garlic
  • 2 inch stalk of lemongrass
  • olive oil

Equipment

  • 1 Roasting pan with a rack

Method
 

  1. Chances are your tip roast is already tied with a twine, if not tie with a kitchen twine to hold its shape and even cooking in the oven
  2. In a motor pestle crush together black pepper salt, mustard seeds, and curry powder. mix it up well. Add garlic, lemongrass, onion powder and Worcestershire sauce. Pound everything into a paste
  3. Coat the roast with olive oil generously and massage seasoning all over the meat evenly. Be generous with black pepper.
  4. Pre heat the oven to 450 degrees F and cook the roast on the rack for 20 minutes for browning. turn the heat down to 325 degrees F. Cook until the meat thermometer reads 135 F (medium).
  5. Take out of the oven and cover and let the meat rest for an hour before carving.

Notes

Note to cook.
My cooking time is based on my oven and setting. I used a meat thermometer inserted and cooked the roast until the internal temperature reached 135 degrees.