Rock Salt Roast Prime Rib Recipes

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 450°. Line a shallow roasting pan with heavy-duty foil. Place 3 cups salt on foil, spreading evenly to form a 1/2-in. layer. , Brush roast with Worcestershire sauce; sprinkle with pepper and garlic powder. Place roast on layer of salt, fat side up. In a small bowl, mix water and remaining salt (mixture should be just moist enough to pack). Beginning at the base of the roast, press salt mixture onto the sides and top of roast., Roast 15 minutes. Reduce oven setting to 325°. Roast 2 to 2-1/4 hours or until a thermometer reaches 130° for medium-rare; 145° for medium. (Temperature of roast will continue to rise about 15° upon standing.) Let stand 20 minutes., Remove and discard salt crust; brush away any remaining salt. Carve roast into slices.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 450 degrees F (230 degrees C).
• Rinse the roast and pat dry with paper towels. Mix the onion soup mix and pepper together in a small bowl. Rub the pepper mixture generously over all sides of the roast. Place the roast on a clean, dry baking sheet, and rest 30 to 45 minutes.
• Meanwhile, mix the rock salt, flour, rosemary together in a bowl. Gradually pour in the water and mix by hand (wear gloves if desired) to make a thick, sticky batter or paste. Add more water if necessary. Spread the salt batter into the bottom of a roasting pan to make a layer 1/2 to 3/4 inch thick., reserving 1 to 2 cups. Place the roast, bones facing down, in the middle of the batter in the pan. Pull the batter up and around the roast to completely cover the meat. Pat on extra batter if necessary. Insert meat thermometer into the roast with its gauge positioned to be visible from the front of the oven (or use a regular meat thermometer).
• Cook in preheated oven for 15 to 20 minutes. Remove, and use remaining salt batter to patch any holes or breaks in the coating.
• Meanwhile, prepare au jus according to package directions leaving out 1/4 cup water to boost flavor, and keep warm.
• Return roast to the oven, and cook until internal temperature reaches 130 degrees F (54 degrees C), or to desired doneness. Remove roast, and rest 20 to 30 minutes until internal temperature reaches 140 degrees F (60 degrees C). Chip off the crust and discard and then slice to serve. Serve garnished with horseradish and au jus.

Steps:

• Get out a large aluminum throw away roasting pan (the deeper the beater) and 4 or 6 aluminum "ribbed" drip pans to make side-boards for the roasting pan, nails and a hammer.
• Preheat oven to 550 degrees.
• Mix crushed garlic, horseradish and pepper.
• Run over entire roast.
• Remove you oven rack and place on a strong table and place roaster on the rack.
• Standing drip pans on their side, line the roaster with the drip pans and pour 2 inches of roack salt in the roaster to help secure the drip pans.
• Sprinkle the two inches of rocksalt with one glass of water and pat down firmly.
• Place prime rib, fatty side up, in the center of the roaster, on top of the rock salt.
• Pour remaining rock salt on the roast making sure that all of the roast has at least one inch of rock salt covering it (you may need to use a nail or staple to join the drip pans if they appear to leak the rock salt).
• Sprinkle more water and pat down until there are NO CRACKS!
• Place the roast rack on the lowest possible setting in your oven and cook 20 minutes per pound for rare (center will be rare-rare) or 21 minutes per pound medium rare (rare with a firm center).
• Remove the roast from the oven and take outside and place on concrete (wood cannot stand the heat!) and break open with a hammer.
• Remove the roast.
• Brush clinging salt from the roast with a vegetable brush.
• Juice will be extra red and the roast will be extremely juicy!
• The rock salt will not make the meat salty, only in some instances on the outer "crispy" areas.
• Enjoy!

Steps:

• Position an oven rack in the center of the oven and preheat to 325 degrees F.
• In a bowl stir the salt and water together and add flour for some extra binding. Froth up the egg whites with a fork, add to the salt and flour and blend until the mixture forms a stiff paste resembling wet snow while holding its shape when you squeeze it together.
• Spread the mixture to form a salt bed in the bottom of a large roasting pan, and lay the roast on top, fat-side down. Cover it all over with the rosemary, thyme and cracked black peppercorns, pressing into the roast to make sure it adheres well. Coat it completely with the salt dough, patting it well so that when it roasts it will solidify into a solid casing. It needs to be about 1/4-inch thick.
• Roast the beef for 20 minutes per pound for medium-rare.
• Transfer the beef to a cutting board, let it rest for 15 minutes and then, cut the casing open and slice in between the bones for nice manly servings. You can also remove the bones and slice thinner if you want.

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 500 degrees F. Line a roasting pan with aluminum foil.
• Rinse the roast, pat it dry, and bring it to room temperature. Sprinkle with the Worcestershire sauce and seasoned pepper.
• In a bowl add the kosher salt, Italian dressing mix, and egg whites and stir to combine. Sprinkle water over the top of the salt mixture until it is well-moistened, but not wet.
• Place a 1/2-inch layer of the salt mixture in the middle of the roasting pan, slightly larger than the diameter of the roast. Place the roast, fat side up, on top of the salt. Insert a meat thermometer into the center of the roast. Carefully pack the remaining salt mixture onto the meat, covering it completely.
• Place the roast in the oven and reduce the temperature to 425 degrees F. Roast for 14 to 16 minutes per pound, or until the thermometer reads 5 degrees F less than desired temperature. Final temperature for rare will be 130 degrees F; 135 degrees F for medium rare; 140 degrees F for medium.
• Remove the roast from the oven and let it rest for 5 minutes.
• For jus, in a small saucepan over medium heat, add the beef broth and bring it to a boil. Reduce the heat, add the soup mix, and simmer for 5 minutes. Remove from the heat.
• Remove the salt crust from the roast by breaking it and peeling it away. (You will probably need a hammer to do this.) Slice the meat to desired thickness and transfer slices to a platter. Ladle a small amount of jus over the top of the meat; serve remainder of jus on the side.
• Cook's note: Have your butcher remove the ribs from the roast.

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 500 degrees F.
• Cut the rib eye in half (roast halves separately for more controlled/even cooking).
• Heat some oil in a large skillet over high heat. Sear both rib eye halves until a nice dark golden color, 2 to 3 minutes per side.
• Place the peppercorns into a bag and crush with a rolling pin. Shred the leaves from the thyme and rosemary sprigs. Mix the salt with the crushed peppercorns, rosemary leaves, thyme leaves and garlic. Pour olive oil over the rib eye and pour on the rub mix. Pat slightly to get it to stick to the meat. Roast for 20 minutes, then reduce the heat to 275 degrees F and roast until a meat thermometer registers 125 for rare/medium-rare, about 20 more minutes (the roast will continue to cook slightly after removing from the oven). Remove from the oven and let rest for 15 to 20 minutes before slicing.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 450 degrees F (230 degrees C). Rinse the roast, and pat dry with paper towels. Sprinkle black pepper and rosemary over the top and sides of the meat, and set aside.
• In a large bowl, mix the rock salt with the flour, and slowly work in 3/4 cup of cold water or as needed, about 1 tablespoon at a time, to make a sticky paste. Place a 1/2-inch thick layer of the rock salt paste into the bottom of a roasting pan. Lay the meat, ribs down, onto the paste. Lay the bacon strips over the top of the roast. Smear rock salt paste liberally all over the roast, coating the top, sides, and bottom of the meat. Reserve about 1/4 cup of the paste.
• Bake the roast in the preheated oven until seared and brown, 20 to 30 minutes. Remove the roast from the oven, and check for holes in the paste coating; repair with reserved paste. Reduce oven temperature to 325 degrees F (165 degrees C). Return the roast to the oven, and cook until browned and an instant-read meat thermometer inserted into the thickest part of the meat, not touching bone, reads 130 degrees F (54 degrees C) for medium-rare, about 1 more hour. Remove the roast, and allow to stand for about 30 minutes. Temperature will rise to 140 to 145 degrees F (60 to 65 degrees C) as it rests.
• Melt butter in a large skillet over medium heat, and cook and stir the mushrooms until browned and their liquid has almost evaporated, about 15 minutes. Stir in 6 cups of cold water, and whisk in the au jus gravy mix until smooth. Stir in the red wine. Bring the sauce to a boil, reduce heat, and simmer, stirring constantly, until the sauce has thickened.
• To serve, break off and discard the salt crust from the meat; slice, and serve with mushroom gravy.

Steps:

• Sprinkle fatty cap of roast with seasoned salt to your taste.
• In heavy roasting pan, spread rock salt evenly over bottom; place wire roasting rack on top of salt.
• Place the roast on rack, fatty side up. Make sure no salt actually touches the beef.
• Insert meat thermometer in thickest part of meat, making sure it does not touch a bone.
• Roast in preheated 350 degrees F. oven until thermometer registers 130 degrees F. for rare, 140 degrees F. for medium or approximately 20 to 25 minutes per pound.
• Remove from oven and let stand 20 minutes before carving.
• Using a sharp carving knife, slice meat across the grain for serving.
• Discard rock salt.
• Serve with Lawry's Whipped Cream Horseradish.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 210 degrees F (100 degrees C).
• Cover the bottom of a roasting pan with a layer of kosher salt. Place the roast, bone side down, on the salt. Season the meat with the ground black pepper and seasoning salt, then cover completely with kosher salt.
• Roast in preheated oven for 4 to 5 hours, or until the internal temperature of the meat reaches 145 degrees F (63 degrees C).
• Remove from oven and let rest for 30 minutes. This sets the juices and makes the roast easier to carve. (Note: Be sure to remove all the salt from the roast before serving.)

Steps:

• Let beef roast set to room temp.
• Preheat oven to 500 degrees.
• With sharp steak knife puncture roast all over, placing slivered garlic in each puncture.
• Simply insert end of knife and place sliver of garlic down along blade, deep into the roast, before removing knife.
• Rub entire roast generously with worchestershire sauce.
• In roasting pan just large enough to hold roast, cover bottom with rock salt.
• Place roast on rock salt.
• Then cover roast completely with more rock salt, so that no meat is uncovered.
• Meat should not touch sides of roasting pan, but be completely encased in rock salt.
• (Note: I gently spray a slight amount of water over top of salt to enable it to"hold and set" firmly.) Place in 500 degree oven and roast for 15 minutes per pound.
• Remove meat from pan and place on cutting board, brushing off all rock salt, and cover with foil for 15-20 minutes before carving.
• Serve with favorite horseradish sauce.
• I prefer fresh ground horseradish from any supermarket deli.
• Horseradish can be made milder by mixing with mayonnaise.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 375 degrees F.
• Season the meat with pepper.
• Insert a meat thermometer into the middle of the thickest part of the lean muscle.
• Slather the meat in mustard, until it is entirely covered.
• Cover a roasting pan in foil and then put a thick layer of rock salt on the bottom of the pan, about the size of the bottom of the roast.
• Set the bottom of the roast on the salt, and press down to embed the salt into the mustard.
• Completely cover the remainder of the roast with rock salt, pressing it into the mustard.
• A lot of salt will fall off into the pan, but that doesn't hurt.
• Roast eighteen minutes per pound for rare beef, twenty-two minutes for medium, and twenty-five minutes for well done.
• After the first fifteen minutes of roasting time, check the roast to make sure that the coating is still intact.
• Repair any cracks or holes, using any left over salt and mustard.
• Double check the degree of doneness on the meat thermometer near the end of the roasting time.
• Let stand 15 minutes.
• The roast will be encased in a'shell'.
• Hit the shell sharply with the back of a knife, and it will crack open and start to fall off.
• Remove the shell, and place the roast on a cutting board.
• Slice, and serve with horseradish sauce.
• Note: The roast will continue to cook if the hard shell is left on after roast is removed from the oven.
• One six-and-one-half-pound roast removed after roasting for fifteen minutes per pound reached a rare degree of doneness in twenty-five minutes with the coating left on.

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.