Herb and Garlic Crusted Prime Rib Roast with Burgundy Thyme Gravy

Herb and Garlic Crusted Prime Rib Roast with Burgundy Thyme Gravy. A real celebration meal and comfort food classic is welcome at Sunday dinner any time.

Herb and Garlic Crusted Prime Rib Roast

Originally posted April 2013.

This Herb and Garlic Crusted Prime Rib is one of my favourite celebration meals. Although I do cook prime rib roast several ways, this is still the easiest and one of the most flavourful.

The burgundy thyme gravy is something I almost always serve with this particular meal. That, along with roasted garlic mashed potatoes and roasted root vegetables.

Herb and Garlic Crusted Prime Rib Roast plated with mashed potatoes, gravy, roasted carrots and Yorkshire pudding.

Some Yorkshire Pudding popovers are also delicious with this meal. Find out how to make perfect Yorkshire Pudding popovers by clicking here.

Yorkshire Pudding popovers!

Mashed potatoes or English Style Roasted Potatoes are also an excellent, must-have side dish as are Bacon and Cashew Brussel Sprouts.

Preparing the prime rib roast.

In addition to the essential step of resting a large roast after cooking and before carving, there is one other tip that I find is absolutely necessary.

Before I roast prime rib, I leave it out of the fridge, well wrapped, for up to 2 hours. This is to allow it to come as close as possible to room temperature.

Herb and Garlic Crusted Prime Rib Roast

Naturally the larger the roast, the longer I leave it out.

A very cold roast going into a very hot oven can cause uneven cooking throughout the meat. Often the outside will be dry or overcooked before the middle gets the perfect colour you are looking for.

This step goes a long way to ensuring that doesn’t happen.

If you like you try our Perfect Onion Gravy which also compliments this roast beautifully.

Onion Gravy

A Frugal Tip.

Since prime rib is one of the most expensive cuts of beef, we most often buy it on sale. When I do, I look for a roast that has nice meaty ribs.

I then easily separate the ribs from the Rib Eye. I tie the rib eye roast up with butcher string and prepare it for the oven.

Breaking down a prime rib roast for braised beef ribs

I save the ribs, perhaps from 2 or 3 roasts in the freezer and serve them as slow braised beef ribs when I have enough.

It’s a great way to stretch a fantastic meal out of 2 or 3 previous purchases.

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Yield: 8 servings

Herb and Garlic Crusted Prime Rib Roast with Burgundy Thyme Gravy

Prep Time: 15 minutes

Cook Time: 1 hour 30 minutes

Total Time: 1 hour 45 minutes

Herb and Garlic Crusted Prime Rib Roast with Burgundy Thyme Gravy - this real celebration meal is also a comfort food classic and welcome at Sunday dinner any time.

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Ingredients

• 4 pound Prime Rib Roast (or larger)
• 6 cloves minced garlic
• 1 teaspoon kosher salt
• 1 teaspoon cracked black pepper
• 3-4 tbsp Dijon mustard
• ½ cup fresh chopped mixed herbs, Oregano, rosemary and thyme work well.

For the Burgundy Thyme Gravy

• 4 cups beef broth, or a combination of fat skimmed pan drippings and beef broth to make 4 cups
• 1 cup burgundy wine
• 4 sprigs fresh thyme, or about 1 tsp dried ground thyme
• ¼ cup butter
• ¼ cup flour
• ½ tsp freshly ground black pepper
• 2 cloves minced garlic

Instructions

To prepare the roast

1. Mix together the garlic, salt, pepper, Dijon mustard and herbs.
2. Rub the herb garlic mix all over the surface of the roast. Press it into the meat a little to make it stick as much as possible.
3. Roast, rib side down, uncovered on a rack in a preheated 375 degree F oven until the centre reaches the desired temperature on a meat thermometer; 130 degrees F for rare, 140-145 degrees F for medium and 155-160 degrees F for well done.
4. It is essential that you let the roast rest, tented in aluminum foil for about 20 minutes for a large roast. This allows the juices to settle and the meat fibers to relax, making the meat far more tender.

To prepare the Burgundy Thyme Gravy

1. Simmer the beef broth, wine and thyme together uncovered for about 20-30 minutes until the volume of the liquid is reduced by about one third.
2. In a separate heavy bottomed saucepan add the butter, flour, black pepper and garlic.
3. Cook together stirring constantly for 2-3 minutes until foamy.
4. Slowly and steadily whisk in the boiling broth mixture. Whisk quickly and steadily as you add the hot liquid to prevent lumps in the gravy.
5. Season with salt to taste. Add a little more beef broth if you like thinner gravy.

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Nutrition Information

Yield

8

Serving Size

1
Amount Per Serving Calories 890Total Fat 68gSaturated Fat 29gTrans Fat 0gUnsaturated Fat 31gCholesterol 203mgSodium 853mgCarbohydrates 9gFiber 2gSugar 0gProtein 54g

The nutritional information provided is automatically calculated by third party software and is meant as a guideline only. Exact accuracy is not guaranteed. For recipes where all ingredients may not be used entirely, such as those with coatings on meats, or with sauces or dressings for example, calorie & nutritional values per serving will likely be somewhat lower than indicated.

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