Beef Chuck Tender Roast

4.65 from 31 votes

This Christmas Beef Chuck Roast Recipe is juicy, tender, and packed with great flavor thanks to the rub and brown gravy made with the pan drippings.

Prep Time30

Cook Time2 30

RESTING TIME30

Total Time3 30

Course: Main Course

Cuisine: American

Keyword: beef, Christmas, roast

Servings: people

Calories: 571kcal

Cost: $26.35

Whisk together all of the rub ingredients in a small prep bowl.
Rub the roast all over with the rub, and then let the roast sit at room temperature for 20-30 minutes.

Move the oven rack to the middle position and preheat the oven to 500 degrees F.
Prepare a roasting pan by spraying the rack with nonstick cooking spray.

Once the roast has sat at room temperature for 20-30 minutes, place 1 Tablespoon of vegetable oil in a large cast-iron skillet and preheat over medium-high temperature until the oil begins to simmer. Add the roast to the pan and use tongs to sear the roast on all sides for 2 minutes each side.

Place the roast on the prepared roasting pan and put it in the preheated 500 degrees F oven. Turn the oven off completely and let it cook for about 2-2 ½ hours, or until the internal temperature reaches 130 degrees on an instant-read thermometer.
Loosely cover the top and sides of the roast with aluminum foil while you make the brown gravy.

Add the beef dripping to a medium saucepan set over medium-high heat. Whisk in the flour and continue to stir for 3 minutes.
Slowly pour in the beef broth while you continue to whisk. Keep whisking until the gravy has thickened a little, about 1-2 minutes. Then, turn off the heat and season the gravy to taste with salt and pepper (the gravy will thicken as it cools). Transfer the gravy to a gravy boat

In our experience, we rarely see large chuck roasts like this one in the supermarket's refrigerator section. We almost always have to ask the butcher at the meat counter to cut us a 5-6 pound center-cut boneless beef chuck-eye roast.
We have seen this cut of chuck roast at Costco around the holidays.
This recipe will also work for other beef roasts like a beef bottom round roast, eye round roast, New York strip roast, or a ribeye roast.
With this recipe, the type of cut of meat is extremely important as different cuts cook differently.
It is also important to know your oven and if it holds heat well or not. All ovens are different and not all ovens retain heat, as well as others, do. If your oven does not retain heat well, then you may need to leave the oven on at 500 degrees F and cook until it reaches the internal temperature of 130 degrees F. We recommend checking the temperature every 20 minutes.