Roast Beef Tenderloin with Dried Fruit and Nut Stuffing

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Appears in Cook's Illustrated November/December 2006

Beef tenderloin is perfect holiday fare. Add a rich stuffing and you've got the ultimate main course—at least in theory.

SERVES4 to 6

TIME2 hours, plus 1 hour standing

Roast Beef Tenderloin with Dried Fruit and Nut Stuffing

WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

For a stuffed beef tenderloin recipe with a deeply charred crust, a tender, rosy-pink interior, and an intensely flavored stuffing that stayed neatly rolled in the meat, we chose the almost perfectly cylindrical Châteaubriand and used a &qu...

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