Recipe by Nitra Ladies Auxiliary

Big-Batch Beef Roast

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Meat Meat
Easy Easy
60 Servings
Allergens

Contains

- Gluten - Wheat
4 Hours
Diets

No Diets specified

This recipe makes a huge amount of roast beef, perfect for a large crowd or for cooking and freezing ahead. If you need fewer servings, halve or quarter the recipe.

Ingredients

Beef Roast

Beef Gravy

  • 8 cups beef drippings

  • 8 cups water

  • 2 cups flour, dissolved in 2 cups water

  • 8 bay leaves

  • 1 tablespoon salt

  • 1 teaspoon pepper

Apricot Sauce

Directions

Prepare the Beef Roast

1.

Combine oil with spices. Brush roasts with spiced oil. Place in roaster pans.

2.

Bake, covered, for three and a half hours.

3.

Refrigerate overnight for easier slicing. Slice to 5/8-inch slices. Reheat in either the beef gravy or the apricot sauce.

4.

Preheat oven to 400 degrees Fahrenheit.

Prepare the Beef Gravy

1.

Bring all ingredients to a boil. Simmer for 10 minutes.

Prepare the Apricot Sauce

1.

Bring all ingredients to a boil. Simmer for five minutes.

Credits

Photography and Styling by Sarah Anteby

Big-Batch Beef Roast

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Yehudis Emanuel
Yehudis Emanuel
5 years ago

Is this recipe for 24 pounds of beef roast or 6 pounds? Im trying to figure out if I should half recipe for 3 pounds of roast or 1/8th it.

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Raquel
Raquel
Reply to  Yehudis Emanuel
5 years ago

This recipe is for 24 pounds, 4- 6lb beef roast. This recipe was for a simcha and meant to feed a huge crowd.