Shirley's Perfect Roast Beef

Ingredients

• 4 lbs roast beef, tenderloin, tip, eye round, bottom round, rump, any you like (you can use any size roast, just adjust the sitting time in the oven 15 mins. per lb.)
• 1 onion, cut into thin rings
• garlic powder

Directions

1. 1

   Preheat oven to 500 degrees. Wait for a few minutes before you put your roast in, so it gets as hot as possible.

2. 2

   Put the roast in a shallow pan.

3. 3

   Cut onion into thin rings, and put all over the top and sides of the roast using toothpicks if necessary. I sit a few slices on the bottom of my roast too.

4. 4

   Sprinkle roast generously with garlic powder, or to your liking. DO NOT SALT roast, or you will dry it out.

5. 5

   Put roast in the oven on the middle rack.

6. 6

   Bake at 500 degrees for 15 minutes, then shut off oven, and let sit in the oven for 15 minutes per lb. (For this 4 lb. roast, 1 hr.). DO NOT under any circumstances open the oven door! VERY IMPORTANT!

7. 7

   After you bake your roast the 15 minutes per lb., take it out of the oven, and let sit for 15 minutes, to allow juices to distribute in the roast.

8. 8

   I use my electric knife to cut my roast, and place on a serving dish.

9. 9

   Don't forget to make the gravy!