Off-Oven Roast Beef

• 1 beef roast, like top, eye or bottom round, approximately 3 poundsbeef-roast
• 1 tablespoon kosher saltsalt
• 1 tablespoon freshly ground black pepperpepper
• 3 cloves garlic, peeled and mincedgarlic
• 1 tablespoon olive oilolive-oil
• Red-pepper flakes to taste

1. 01Remove roast from refrigerator. Preheat oven to 500 degrees.
2. 02In a small bowl, mix together salt, pepper, garlic, olive oil and red-pepper flakes to create a kind of paste. Rub this all over the roast. Place beef in a roasting pan or cast-iron skillet, fat-side up, and put in oven. Cook undisturbed for 5 minutes per pound.
3. 03Turn off oven. Do not open oven door. Leave roast to continue cooking, undisturbed, for two hours.
4. 04After two hours, remove roast from oven. Slice and serve alongside, ideally, a watercress salad, some skillet-fried potatoes and a small tureen of Henry Bain sauce.

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