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Classic Holiday Roast

Chef Dawn's Holiday Roast Recipe

Chef Dawn Ludwig
Prep Time 5 minutes
Cook Time 55 minutes
Total Time 1 hour
Course Main Course, Meat
Cuisine American
Servings 4 servings

Ingredients
  

  • pounds your choice of protein, boneless and butterflied (leg of lamb, beef or pork tenderloin, or chicken breasts or thighs)
  • 2-3 cloves garlic, chopped
  • handful of fresh thyme sprigs (or other herbs of your choice)
  • 1-2 cups chopped beet greens or chard (about 60-80 grams or 2-3 ounces)
  • pepper, to taste

Instructions
 

  • First, preheat oven to 450 F.
  • Next, salt and pepper the meat. Place garlic, thyme sprigs, and greens on one end of the butterflied meat. Roll all of this into a spiral and then place in a loaf pan to keep it from unrolling. Roast at 450F for 15 to 20 minutes, then 350F for an extra 30 to 35 minutes (more time may be needed for larger roasts).

Notes

Nutrition (Roast Only - Leg of Lamb Variation)

Fat: 26g
Carbohydrates: 1g
Protein: 31g
Calories: 370

 

Complete Meal

For an fully festive meal, serve with blanched greens of your choice (click here to see our blanching tutorial video) , Butternut Sage Puree (Always Delicious page 219) or here's a tutorial on squash with a recipe, and Chocolate Dipped Fruit or Coconut Clusters. Click here for chocolate recipes.
When using fatty meats, such as lamb, this meal will have ratios close to Phase 1 even though we are using Phase 2 ingredients. Although we don't want to eat that way every meal, it is okay to have meals like this every once in a while. With lamb, this meal will be: Carbohydrate: 26%, Protein: 26%, Fat: 48%.
With chicken breast, you'll need to increase the fat a little in the meal so you might add a few teaspoons of olive oil to the roast or to the squash puree, and have an extra piece of chocolate dipped fruit at the end of your meal. This is a good meal to practice playing with ingredients to get the ratios closer to your goals. It's okay if it's not perfect! And it's okay for a meal to have slightly skewed ratios, it doesn't mean every meal has to be that way.
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Keyword Meat