Beef Tenderloin Roast with Garlic and Herb

Juicy and perfect oven roasted beef tenderloin seasoned with garlic and herbs.

Great meal for Christmas, Easter, thanksgiving or any other holiday.

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• 📕 What is Beef Tenderloin?
• 🥩 Ingredients
• 🔪 How to prepare and roast Beef Tenderloin Roast?
• 💡 Temperature Doneness Chart
• 🍴 Serving
• 🍱 Storing and Using Leftovers
• 💭 FAQs
• 📖 Recipe
• 💬 Comments

📕 What is Beef Tenderloin?

Beef tenderloin is a cut of meat in a cow. It's also called fillet.

Tenderloin is the most expensive and best cut of meat.

It's tender, soft and cooks through fast, making it a great meat to serve up for a special occasion.

🥩 Ingredients

You will need a few ingredients to make this dish from scratch at home:

• beef tenderloin - lookout for quality cuts, it should be deep red and the meat should appear tender.
• garlic - fresh cloves
• onion - can be white, yellow, or purple. You can use shallots too.
• olive oil or any other cooking oil
• butter
• salt and black pepper
• thyme - dried or fresh
• rosemary - dried or fresh
• broth - vegetable, beef, or veal broth. You can mix boiling hot water with a Maggie cube too.
• all-purpose flour and water to prepare the slurry

🔪 How to prepare and roast Beef Tenderloin Roast?

The process to prepare and cook your own beef tenderloin is super simple. It couldn't be easier than that!

Here is an overview on how it's done.

The US and Metric measurements are located in the printable recipe card further below with the details.

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Step 1

Peel and cut garlic

Cut holes into beef tenderloin and stuff with garlic pieces.

Slice onion.

Step 2

Place sliced onion into pot and beef tenderloin over that.

Spread oil and seasoning over the beef and rub it in.

Add some butter to the pot.

Step 3

Sear beef tenderloin on all sides and pour broth over it.

Step 4

Cover pot and roast beef in the oven.

Step 5

Combine flour and water to create a slurry.

Pour and mix in slurry 5 mins before roast is done.

Finish cooking roast.

💡 Temperature Doneness Chart

Cook your meat the way you like it!

That can be rare, medium rare, medium or well done.

Roast at 400° Fahrenheit/ 200° Celsius:

• rare for 14-18 mins with an inner temperature set at 85-120 Fahrenheit or 30-50 Celsius
• medium rare for 19-23 mins with an inner temperature set at 130-145 Fahrenheit or 55-63 Celsius
• medium for 24-26 mins with an inner temperature set at Fahrenheit or 63-68 Celsius
• well done for 30 mins with an inner temperature set at  160-170 Fahrenheit or 72-77 Celsius

You can check the inner temperature of your meat with a meat thermometer. It can be handy, I didn't use it in the video.

🍴 Serving

I always like to pour some of the sauce in the pot over the beef roast before I cut and serve it. That way it will look juicy and more delicious.

Slice the roast and serve up hot with a side of your choice.

Potatoes and carrots are always a great and brussels sprouts any way.

Roasted beets, turnips and other root vegetables make a lovely choice too.

Or how about braised red cabbage, mash potato, sauteed mushrooms and plain cooked rice or fragrant rice?

🍱 Storing and Using Leftovers

If you have leftovers, make sure that it's cut into slices and place the beef slices into an airtight container in the fridge. Use within days.

I love it the next day with sweet potato mash or cut into smaller pieces in a pasta dish or fried rice.

You can use the tenderloin slices in a wonderful sandwich too.

I love the leftovers in a taco, burrito or quesadilla too.

If you have a small party right after Christmas, you could make some appetizers too.

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