Roast Whole Beef Fillet With Baby Onions And Physalis Fruit

Total Time: 40 mins Preparation Time: 15 mins Cook Time: 25 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 4
• 400 g baby onions, peeled
• 3 tablespoons olive oil
• 1 kg whole piece filet of beef
• salt and pepper
• 70 g physalis fruit, husk removed
• 200 ml muscat wine (sweet aromatic wine) or 200 ml sauternes wine (sweet aromatic wine)

Recipe

• 1 pre heat oven to 230°c put the onions in a roasting tin, add 1 tbsp olive oil and toss to coat. roast for 10 minutes.
• 2 in the meantime, pat dry the beef fillet with kitchen paper, rub with 1 tbsp oil and season well. at this stage you may want to tie the fillet with kitchen yarn at regular intervals but it's not essential.
• 3 heat a heavy based frying pan and brown the beef on all sides for anout 5 minutes. transfer the beef with the onions and roast for 15 minutes. this depends on how thick the beef is and on personal preference.
• 4 toss the physalis with the remaining 1 tbsp oil, then add to the meat and roast a further 7 minutes.
• 5 transfer the meat, onions and fruit to a warm serving dish and rest for 15 minutes.
• 6 meanwhile deglaze the roasting pan ( adding any juices released from the meat )with the wine and bubble for a few minutes to make a jus.
• 7 carve the beef into thick slices, serve with roast onions and potatoes.