Red Wine Sauce for Roast Beef

I hope you have enjoyed Canadian Thanksgiving and ate lots and lots of turkey. Every year, my mother makes the juiciest turkey ever, however, she forgot to buy a turkey for this Thanksgiving. I missed eating her turkey. There is always American Thanksgiving, even thought we are Canadians. As every year, we have a family reunion in which families from all over Canada reunite in Montreal to have Thanksgiving dinner.

Since I can't break family tradition, I decided to organize a "Thanksgiving Eve Dinner" with friends, collegues and my bro on Sunday. Cooking turkey takes a long time to be done, so I ended buying roast beef since it was on special. I won't go into details on the cooking steps as I blogged about roast beef on December 2008, here are some useful informations.

Approximate roasting time for room-temperature roast beef at 350F :

Rare - 17-19 mins per pound

Medium Rare - 20-22 mins per pound

Medium Well - 23-25 mins per pound

Well Done - 30 mins per pound

Using a meat thermometer, the roast center temperature should be approximately :

Rare - 125°F

Medium Rare - 135°F

Medium Well - 150°F

Well Done - 160°F

The best technique when a meat thermometer is not available is by touch, I called it the Chef Ramsay's technique. If the touch of the meat is like your cheeks, it's rare, your chin for medium rare and your forehead for well done.

I'm pretty sure most of you wonder how to make the best gravy for roast beef. My brother and I made the best and delicious sauce we had ever, we were so surprised of the results. The following day, on Thanksgiving, some of my collegues made this sauce for their family.

Preparation Time : 5 mins

Cooking Time : 10 mins

Printable Recipe

Ingredients

12 white mushrooms, sliced

2 medium onions

1 garlic clove, minced

3 tbsp potato starch (cornstarch,  flour)

1 1/2 cup dry red wine

1 10oz. can beef broth or consommé

Salt and Pepper

Roast Beef Drippings

Procedure

1. After roasting, add oil, mushroom, onions, garlic to pan drippings. Place over medium heat and sauté until tender.

2. In a small bowl, combine a couple tablespoon of beef broth with starch to make a slurry. Pour the remaining beef broth onto the pan and stir in the slurry.

3. Add red wine and simmer until reduced by 1/4 to 1/3. Add salt and pepper to taste.