Skillet Beef Top Loin Roast with Potatoes

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Appears in Cook's Illustrated November/December 2018

No need to wait for a crowd to serve our Beef Top Loin Roast with Potatoes. With a smaller piece of meat and a 12-inch skillet, you can make one heck of a family dinner (serving 4 to 6).

SERVES4 to 6

TIME2¼ hours, plus 6 hours salting

Skillet Beef Top Loin Roast with Potatoes

WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

To create a juicy, tender roast and creamy, beefy-tasting potatoes, we started with a top loin roast and trimmed the thick ribbons of fat that run along its sides. Browning the trimmings along with the roast yielded loads of rendered fat (a...

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