Another simple Christmas lunch idea. The meat is marinated in red wine vinegar, cumin, ground fennel and chili flakes. The fennel brings out the flavour of the meat. The quinoa salad takes less than thirty minutes to prepare, cook the quinoa, add spinach, nuts and drizzle red wine vinegar, The red wine chilli sauce is a great sauce to drizzle over the beef and salad.
To make this juicy beef log you need:
2.5kg beef log
2 tablespoon red wine vinegar
2 tablespoon olive oil
1 tablespoon soy sauce
1 teaspoon chilli flakes
1 tablespoon ground coriander
Method
In a large bowl add the vinegar, oil, soy sauce and spices. Mix well.
Pour the marinade over the lamb and season with salt and pepper. Cove the meat with cling wrap and place in the fridge and leave overnight.
Preheat oven to 220 degresss
Place meat in the baking tray and cook for 1 to 1.5 hours or to your liking.
Remove the meat and let it rest for ten minutes than slice.
Tip
Before cooking the meat, make sure it is at room temperature after removing it from the fridge.
Quinoa Salad
The quinoa salad is a simple dish to make. All you need:
1 cup Quinoa
Handful of spinach
1/3 cup olives
Handful of walnuts
Handful of dried cranberries
Method
Cook quinoa according to packet instructions.
Once quinoa is ready and cooled remove a salad plate and place the quinoa, spinach, olives, nuts and cranberries and mix.
To make the red wine vinegar chilli sauce you need:
1/2 red wine vinegar
1 red chilli
salt and sugar to season.
Place all the ingredients in a bowl and mix. Taste to your preference.
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