• Safeway had prime rib roasts on sale before Christmas, and while I haven’t been into beef lately, I couldn’t pass it up. I’m glad I didn’t, because the roast beef was delicious. I found inspiration on several recipes online, but mine was simplified to just include butter, garlic and rosemary – because I grow a lot of the latter. I neglected to take a photo, so just picture a beautiful roast.

Ingredients

  • 1 ~5lb bone-in rib roast
  • 4 Tbs butter, softened or melted
  • 8 garlic cloves, peeled and minced
  • 1 1/2 Tbsp rosemary leaves, chopped
  • generous kosher salt
  • pepper to taste

Instructions

Remove roast from fridge about an hour before you want to cook it. Remove packaging and pat dry.

Preheat oven to 500F

Mix the softened/melted butter with the garlic, rosemary, kosher salt and ground pepper.

Brush in the butter over all sides of the roast. Set on a roasting pan bone-side down. Place in the oven and roast for 15 minutes. Turn temperature down to 325F and continue roasting for about 15 minutes per pound (so 1 1/4 hrs for a 5 lb roast) for medium rare. Remove, tent with aluminum foil or cover with cloth towels and rest for at least 15 minutes.

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