Recipe - Asado Con Pimienta Negra (Roast Beef And Blac

10 pound Top round, trimmed of fat
1/3 cup Black peppercorns
1 teaspoon Ground cardamon

Wipe the meat on all sides and tie with kitchen string. Place peppercorns
between waxed paper, and with a rolling pin or meat mallet, crack the
peppercorns. Mix the cracked peppercorns with cardamon and press the
mixture into the meat, covering the entire surface. Place meat on a rack in
a roasting pan and let sit at room temperature for 30 minutes before
cooking.
Preheat oven to 500 deg F. Place the pan on the middle rack of the oven
and roast for 1One fourth hr for rare; 12/3 hr for medium. Remove from oven and
let stand 20 minutes before carving.

From Gemini's MASSIVE MealMaster collection at www.synapse.com/~gemini