Beef in foil, baked piece in the oven

In foil, beef becomes soft and very juicy. The degree of roast beef roasting can be made to your taste. I don't like meat with blood, as well as medium-rare. I like meat brought to full readiness.

Maria

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Composition / ingredients

Servings:

Beef (pulp)

800

Cilantro, coriander (ground)

Mint (dried)

Oregano dry

Olive oil

Ground black pepper

to taste

Salt

to taste

Translation table of volumetric measures

Nutrients and energy value of the composition of the recipe

By weight of the composition:

Proteins 66 % 21 g

Fats 34 % 11 g

Carbohydrates 0 % 0 g

188 kcal

GI: 0 / 0 / 0

Step-by-step cooking

Cooking time: 3 h 30 min

Step 1:
How to bake a piece of beef in the oven in foil? Prepare the ingredients. To cook beef, we will need: beef pulp in one large piece, preferably without hard veins (I have roast beef); olive oil; dried seasonings: oregano, mint and ground coriander; ground black pepper and salt.
Step 2:
Wash and dry the beef pulp. Rub the meat with olive oil, dried herbs, salt and pepper. Leave to marinate for 2 hours in the refrigerator.
Step 3:
Put the meat on a double sheet of foil. Pour the remaining olive oil from the marinade on top. You can heat a little olive oil in a saucepan and fry the meat on all sides until golden brown. I didn't do it, because I wanted tender beef without a fried crust.
Step 4:
Carefully wrap the beef in a double sheet of foil and put it on a baking sheet or in a baking dish.
Step 5:
Put the meat in a preheated 160 °C oven and bake for about 1 hour. It took me about 25 more minutes, since I didn't fry the meat before baking. You can unwrap the beef and put it back in the oven for 20 minutes to get a browned crust. But in this case it is very easy to over-dry the meat, especially if the piece itself is not very thick.
Step 6:
Remove the beef from the oven, transfer to a platter. Serve the meat with any sauce. I served it with mint-basil sauce based on olive oil and peanuts (can be replaced with pine nuts). Bon appetit!

Beef should not be baked at too high a temperature, otherwise there is a risk of drying it out. It is optimal to cook roast beef after roasting at 160 degrees (in some recipes, baking is carried out at even lower temperatures, for example, it is cooked at 90 degrees for 2-3 hours). A lot also depends on which cut is used, if the tenderloin is prepared faster, then the shackles are longer.

The degree of roast beef roasting is determined by the temperature of the meat at the end of baking:
60 degrees - with blood;
70 degrees - medium roast;
80 degrees - full roast.
To determine exactly how deep fried a piece is, you will need a cooking thermometer. If it is not there, then be guided as follows: beef weighing 1 kg at a temperature of 160 degrees, as a rule, should be baked for 30-40 minutes (depending on which cut is used).

Baked meat from the oven should be immediately wrapped in foil and necessarily left for 30-40 minutes for rest. Due to the slow cooling, the juices inside the piece will be evenly distributed, the roast beef will turn out very juicy and soft.

Keep in mind that everyone's ovens are different. The temperature and cooking time may differ from those specified in the recipe. To make any baked dish successful, use useful information about the features of ovens !

Getting down to cooking a foil-baked dish (meat or poultry), consider the features of your oven and be guided by the cooking time according to it, and not by what is written in the recipe. If you are preparing a dish for the first time, follow a few useful tips:
- divide the total cooking time by 4
- open the oven every quarter of the total time and check the degree of readiness of the dish
- don't be afraid to unwrap the foil for a more accurate check
- to make it more convenient to unfold the foil, always leave a "seam" on top of it
- if you wish, you can determine the degree of readiness without unfolding the foil by making one or two punctures in it with a toothpick
Remember that the quality of the foil also matters.

How to cook properly in foil? The answer to this question, as well as useful tips and life hacks for cooking different dishes, read the article Aluminum foil is an assistant in the kitchen and at home .