Roast beef

Roast beef

Course	Entree
Place of origin	England
Serving temperature	Hot
Main ingredients	Beef
Cookbook: Roast beef  Media: Roast beef

Sunday roast consisting of roast beef, roast potatoes, vegetables and Yorkshire pudding

A dinner of roast beef, potatoes, and green beans

Some prefer roast beef to be served "medium".

Roast beef is a dish of beef which is roasted in an oven. Essentially prepared as a main meal, the leftovers can be and are often served within sandwiches and sometimes are used to make hash. In the United Kingdom, United States, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand and Australia, roast beef is one of the meats traditionally served at Sunday dinner, although it is also often served as a cold cut in delicatessen stores, usually in sandwiches. A traditional side dish to roast beef is Yorkshire pudding.

Roast beef is a signature national dish of England and holds cultural meaning for the English dating back to the 1731 ballad "The Roast Beef of Old England". The dish is so synonymous with England and its cooking methods from the 18th century that the French nickname for the English is "les Rosbifs".^[1]

Cooking

Translucent appearance is nothing to be alarmed about. Some prefer roast beef to be served "rare" or "pink", meaning that the center of the joint is cooked so that it retains a reddish color. Others prefer roast beef to be cooked medium or well done.

Culinary arts

The beef on weck sandwich is a tradition in western New York. Roast beef is sometimes served with horseradish or horseradish sauce. In Denmark it is mostly used in open sandwiches, called smørrebrød.

Roast beef sandwich

The roast beef sandwich commonly comprises bread, cold roast beef (either the leftovers from a homemade dinner or deli meat), lettuce, tomatoes, and mustard, although it would not be uncommon to find cheese, horseradish, fresh/powdered chili pepper and even in some cases red onion.^[2]

See also

• Roasting
• Beef
• "The Roast Beef of Old England"

References

1. "Why do the French call the British 'the roast beefs'?". BBC. Retrieved 25 November 2014
2. "MyRecipes.com"

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