Method
- Remember to remove your beef picanha joint out of the packaging, pat dry and bring to room temperature
- Pre heat your oven to 200 oc temperature fan assisted or 215 oc without a fan
- Season the joint just prior to roasting
- Choose a large, heavy based roasting tray, ideally with deep sides and handles for easy movement
- Massage a little goose or duck fat into the joint if it does not have a generous coating of fat then season with good quality fine sea salt
- Start by rendering the fat on the tray on top of the stove for a few moments creating a rich golden layer of fat ,then pop the joint to one side
- Make a trivet by roughly chopping equal amounts of onion, carrot and celery or our preferred choice of celeriac, the root of the celery plus a bay leaf, sprig of thyme and a few black peppercorns,
- Place the beef fat side up onto the trivet which should line the base of the tray
- Place in centre of oven and roast for 20 minutes then reduce the temperature to 170 oc then continue roasting for 15 minutes per 500g reaching a core temperature of minimum 54 oc
- Remove from oven and pop onto a clean tray and keep warm by covering with a sheet of tin foil then resting for a minimum of 20 minutes before carving, leaving the roasted vegetables in the tray for the gravy
- For the gravy make up 500 ml of Essential Cuisine beef stock, then deglaze roasting tray with this stock stirring all the caramelized juices from the tray, then pass through a fine sieve pushing all the juices from the vegetables into a clean sauce pan, bring to the simmer and thicken if required by whisking in a teaspoon of corn flour mixed with a little cold water and reduce till you reach a rich glossy gravy