Spicy Roast Beef

Name: Spicy Roast Beef
Ingredients: 1 tablespoon ground allspice; 2 teaspoons ground mace; 1 teaspoon ground cloves; 5 tablespoons ground black pepper, reserving 2 tablespoons for seasoning or (7 tablespoons chili powder, reserving 3 tablespoons); 2 tablespoons sliced garlic or (5 tablespoons garlic powder); 16 sprigs fresh thyme; ½ cup red wine; 2 teaspoons salt, kosher, rock, or iodized only; 2 tablespoons olive oil; 2 large carrots, roughly chopped; 2 medium onions, roughly chopped, red, white, or yellow only; 1 head garlic, peeled and smashed; 2 celery stalks, roughly chopped

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Spicy Roast Beef

Ingredients

Directions

Mix all the marinade ingredients together in a strong plastic bag. Put the roast into the bag and seal tightly. Marinate in the refrigerator for 2 days turning the bag at least twice a day.
Remove the roast from the marinade, and let sit at room temperature for 1 hour before browning. Preheat an oven to 275° F.
Heat oil in a large dutch oven over high heat. Pat the roast dry on the excess marinade. Season the roast with salt and the remaining pepper, and sear on all sides until golden brown.
Remove the roast to a dish. Heat the oil in the pan and saute the carrots, onions, garlic, celery, and thyme. Add the red wine and any left-over marinade to the vegetables, and bring it to a simmer.
Scrape up any bits in the bottom of the pot. Place the roast back into the pot.
Cover the pot with a heavy lid and bake, half the total cooking time with the lid on, and half without. Allow 20 minutes per pound of meat, or until internal temperature reaches 145° F, about 2 hours.
Add water to the pot if it looks like it is drying out too fast. Remove the roast to a platter, and let rest for 15 minutes before carving.
Strain the gravy from the pot and put in a sauceboat. Serve hot and plain over rice and gravy, or with other main dishes.
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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

253Calories

3 gProtein

15 gFat

26 gCarbs

Counts 12 of 13 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 12 portions

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Olive Oil	1 tbsp (14g)	119
Onion	1 medium (110g)	44
Wine	2 tbsp cooking wine (30ml)	25
Carrot	1 medium (61g)	25
Chili	1 tsp (2.7g)	8
Cloves	1 tsp ground (2g)	7
Black Pepper	1 tsp ground (2.3g)	6
Celery Stalks	1 stalk (40g)	6
Allspice	1 tsp ground (1.9g)	5
Garlic	1 clove (3g)	4
Thyme	1 tsp dried (1.4g)	4
Salt	1 tsp (6g)	0
Mace	not in our table	0

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

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The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

Allspice + clovetop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together7,874 recipes

Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).
Allspice + thymetop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together1,077 recipes

Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).
Clove + thymetop 2% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together4,108 recipes

Shared aroma: cuminaldehyde (Spicy, cumin).
Garlic + olivetop 2% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together25,665 recipes

Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).
Pepper + thymetop 4% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together11,585 recipes

Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

Swap the mace

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (allspice, clove, pepper, garlic, thyme, red wine, olive):

Rosemaryfits better
Marjoramfits better
Basilfits better
Macethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against allspice, clove, pepper, garlic, thyme, red wine, olive. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.