Fast Ed's Fancy Roast Beef

Total Time: 1 hr 15 mins Preparation Time: 10 mins Cook Time: 1 hr 5 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 6
• 1 1/2 kg beef, whole scotch fillet
• salt and pepper
• 2 garlic cloves, peeled and quartered lengthwise
• 1/2 bunch fresh sage, leaves picked
• 12 slices prosciutto
• 2 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil

Recipe

• 1 preheat oven to 200°c season beef with salt and pepper. using the tip of a sharp knife, make 8 incisions about 2cm deep around the beef. push a sliver of garlic into each cut.
• 2 lay prosciutto slices overlapping side by side on a chopping boar lined with baking paper. arrange sage leaves over the top. put beef at one side and, using the baking paper as a tool to lift and roll, roll to wrap in prosciutto. tie with butchers twine to secure, drizzle with olive oil and put in a large roasting pan.
• 3 roast, turning often, for 1 hour or until prosciutto is well browned and meat is cooked to medium. rest meat in a warm place, loosely covered in foil, for 5 minutes.