Prime Rib For 2 Recipes

PRIME RIB

Steps:

• Liberally season the prime rib with the salt and some pepper and refrigerate overnight.
• An hour before cooking, remove the roast from the refrigerator to allow it to come to room temperature.
• Meanwhile, preheat the oven to 400 degrees F.
• Put the reserved ribs in a roasting pan bowed-side up (the ribs will be acting as the roasting rack). Scatter any fat and meat trimmings in the pan around the bones. Roast the bones and trimmings for about 30 minutes, or until the fat starts to render.
• Remove the pan from the oven, put the rosemary sprigs on top of the bones, then top with the prime rib. Put the smashed garlic in the bottom of the pan with the trimmings. Baste the beef with the fat drippings and return the pan to the oven.
• Cook for 30 minutes and then baste the roast again.
• Reduce the heat to 350 degrees F and cook until the meat is medium rare (an internal temperature of 125 degrees F to 130 degrees F), about 1 hour, 15 minutes, basting the roast every 30 minutes until it is done. Keep in mind that the roast will continue to cook while resting.
• Remove the roast from the oven and put it on a cutting board to rest, uncovered, for 20 minutes. Slice the prime rib to the desired thickness and garnish with the arugula and olive oil.

CLASSIC PRIME RIB FOR A SMALL CROWD

Steps:

• Bring the meat to room temperature by removing it from the refrigerator at least an hour before cooking, preferably two. (For a larger roast, make it three.) Preheat the oven to 450 degrees.
• Place the meat, bone side down, in a large roasting pan. Season it with salt and pepper. If you like garlic, peel the cloves and cut them into tiny slivers; use a boning or paring knife to poke small holes in the meat and insert the garlic into them.
• Place the roast in the oven and cook for 15 minutes, undisturbed. Turn the heat down to 350 degrees and continue to roast about 1 hour; check in several places with a meat thermometer. When no spot registers under 125 degrees (120 degrees if you like your meat really rare and your guests are of the same preference), the meat is rare; cook another 5 or 10 minutes if you like it more well done, then check again, but in no case should you let the temperature of the meat go above 155 degrees.
• Remove the meat from the oven. Pour off all but a few tablespoons of the fat, and place the roasting pan over a burner set to high. Add the liquid and cook, stirring and scraping up any brown bits, until it is reduced by half. Slice and serve the roast, splashing a little of the sauce on the meat platter and passing the rest at the table.

GRILLED PRIME RIB ROAST

Steps:

• First, make several half inch deep holes in your meat across all sides of the roast with a sharp knife, spaced about two inches apart.
• Fill the holes with slivered pieces of garlic and rosemary leaves alternating between the two (this will likely require about 7 cloves of garlic and 3 sprigs of rosemary depending on how thinly you cut the garlic and how many leaves are on a sprig).
• Once the holes have been filled, mix together two tablespoons each of black pepper, kosher salt, paprika, and dried rosemary with a tablespoon of vegetable oil, rubbing or brushing it onto the meat on all sides.
• Once seasoned, allow the meat to rest at room temperature for half an hour.
• This lets the meat warm up slightly before it hits the heat, ensuring a more even cook and a juicier end product.
• While your roast warms up, now is a good time to light the grill.
• The properly cook prime rib using this method, you need to set up your grill for indirect cooking at a grill temperature of about 375 degrees Fahrenheit.
• For a charcoal grill, this would mean placing coals only on one side of the grill or using a heat diffuser, while keeping one area of a propane grill turned off.
• Additionally, add a grill safe baking pan underneath the space you plan to put the prime rib, as this will let you catch the drippings you'll use for making gravy later on.
• Once the grill and the meat have come up to temperature, you can begin cooking.
• Place your prime rib roast onto the grate in the cold spot you make earlier for indirect grilling.
• You can expect the roast to cook for around 12 minutes per pound of meat, meaning close to 3 and a half hours for a roast this size.
• Remember to periodically add a little bit of water to the baking pan catching the drippings to prevent them from burning.
• When the meat has reached the designated temperature, remove it from the grill and place it onto a cutting board or other flat surface.
• Tent loosely with aluminum foil and let it rest for at least 20 minutes if not an hour.
• During this resting period, the meat fibers will relax and reabsorb some of their lost juices, leading to a more tender and flavorful meat.
• Additionally, this extra time allows the residual heat inside the roast to distribute evenly, raising the temperature by about 5 degrees and ending the cooking process.
• As your meat rests, now is the perfect time to make some delicious gravy to go with it.
• Place the pan full of drippings onto the stove and heat it over medium heat.
• Add in a few tablespoons of flower, stirring it into the fat until it's completely coated.
• Cook the flower for about two minutes before adding in a cup of beef or chicken stock, whisking the mixture vigorously and scrapping the bottom of the pan to loosen any browned bits stuck to the bottom.
• Continue cooking the gravy until it reaches your desired thickness, adding salt and pepper to taste.
• You could also toss in a few fresh herbs to help make it extra flavorful. Once it's done, strain it through a fine mesh sieve into a container.
• Once both your meat and gravy are ready, it's time to eat.

CHEF JOHN'S PERFECT PRIME RIB

Steps:

• Place rib roast on a plate and bring to room temperature, about 4 hours.
• Preheat an oven to 500 degrees F (260 degrees C).
• Combine butter, pepper, and herbes de Provence in a bowl; mix until well blended. Spread butter mixture evenly over entire roast. Season roast generously with kosher salt.
• Roast the 4-pound prime rib (see footnote if using a larger and smaller roast) in the preheated oven for 20 minutes. Turn the oven off and, leaving the roast in the oven with the door closed, let the roast sit in the oven for 2 hours. Remove roast from the oven, slice, and serve.

PRIME RIB FOR TWO RECIPE - (4.5/5)

Steps:

• Adjust oven rack to lowest position and preheat oven to 200°F. Pat steak dry with paper towels and season with salt and pepper. Heat oil in 12-inch skillet over medium-high heat until just smoking. Brown steak all over, 10 to 12 minutes. Transfer steak to wire rack set in rimmed baking sheet. Roast until meat registers 120° to 125°F (for medium-rare), 25 to 30 minutes. Transfer steak to cutting board, tent loosely with aluminum foil, and let rest 5 to 10 minutes. Meanwhile, pour off all but 2 teaspoons fat from now-empty skillet. Add shallots and cook over medium heat until softened, about 1 minute. Stir in ketchup and thyme and cook until fragrant, about 30 seconds. Add broth and wine and simmer, scraping up any browned bits, until reduced to 1/3 cup, about 10 minutes. Carve bone from steak and cut steak on bias into four 1/2-inch-thick slices. Serve with jus. Note: Be sure to brown the edges of the steak to render the fat. You can do this easily by using tongs to hold the steak on its side in the hot pan.

PRIME RIB FOR 2

Steps:

• Wrap meat well and freeze until solid. Give it a good 24 hours or more.
• Combine oil and garlic and rub evenly over the frozen roast. Generously sprinkle with pepper. Stand bone side down on a rimmed baking sheet or broiler pan between the two potatoes, placed like bookends. ROAST FROZEN; DO NOT THAW.
• Roast uncovered in a 400F oven for 1 hour 15 minutes for medium rare, or 1 hour 35 to 40 minutes for medium well. You may insert a meat thermometer through the fat layer, into center of roast, not touching bone after it has cooked for about an hour. Cook to your liking (130F to 135F for rare).
• Let stand 5 minutes before carving.
• Serve with the baked potatoes and your favorite potato toppings.

PRIME RIB FOR TWO

Steps:

• 1. NOTE: I would recommend putting this on a rack in your pan. Since there isn't any liquid in the recipe it did stick and harden a bit on the bottom of the roast.
• 2. Wrap meat well and freeze until solid.
• 3. When ready to cook, preheat oven to 400F.
• 4. Combine oil and garlic; rub evenly over frozen meat. If you're adding the seasoning (optional), add that now rubbing it into the oil and garlic.
• 5. Stand roast, rib bone down, on a rimmed baking sheet or broiler pan between the 2 potatoes, placed like book ends. Roast frozen; do not thaw.
• 6. Roast, uncovered, in a 400F oven for 1 hour and 15 minutes for rare meat, 1 hour and 25 minutes for medium rare, 1 hour and 35 to 40 minutes for well done.
• 7. If you wish, insert a meat thermometer through fat layer into center of roast, not touching bone, after it has cooked for about 1 hour, and continue cooking until meat is done to your liking (130F to 135F for rare).
• 8. Let stand for about 5 minutes before carving.