Roasted Beef Tenderloin with Roasted Pepper and Black Olive Sauce

  • Level: Easy
  • Yield: 8 servings
  • Total: 1 hr
  • Prep: 10 min
  • Inactive: 10 min
  • Cook: 40 min
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Ingredients

2 (2 to 2 1/2 pound) center-cut pieces beef tenderloin -- ask the butcher to give you 2 pieces for use in a Chateaubriand recipe

Extra virgin olive oil, for coating roasts, plus 3 tablespoons for sauce

Grill seasoning (recommended: Montreal Steak Seasoning for Steak by McCormick)

5 whole roasted red peppers, coarsely chopped, well drained and pat dry

2 cloves garlic, popped from skin

Handful flat-leaf parsley

1 cup good quality pitted black olives, from bulk bins, such as kalamata, drained well

Salt and pepper

Crusty bread, sliced

Directions

  1. Preheat oven as high as it goes, 500 degrees F. 
  2. Liberally coat the meat with extra-virgin olive oil and grill seasoning. Place the meat on a roasting rack or in a roasting pan and place in oven. If you are cooking in a pan with no rack, add a splash of water to the pan. Roast the meat 10 minutes on high then reduce heat to 350 degrees F and cook 30 minutes more. Do not open oven during those first 10 minutes. Remove meat from oven and let rest 10 minutes before serving. 
  3. Place roasted peppers in food processor and add garlic, parsley, olives, salt and pepper. Turn the processor on and stream in extra-virgin olive oil, about 3 tablespoons.
  4. Thinly slice meat against grain and serve with crusty bread and sauce.

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Peter V.

I have made this for decades now and it never disappoints -- my go-to beef tenderloin recipe. It works well with or without the red pepper sauce (tapenade). My local grocery store stopped offering red peppers and black olives in "bins" during Covid, so I now have to go with jarred versions. Sometimes I do a horseradish sauce instead of the red pepper sauce or offer both. For those who say the tenderloin doesn't get done in the specified time -- try using a meat thermometer and roasting to your desired doneness. Problem solved.

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