How to cook a silverside beef joint

Silverside beef is a delicious yet lean cut of meat. It is best cooked slowly to maximise the taste. Beef silverside is perfect for a Sunday dinner, especially if you’re looking for a more affordable beef joint.

What is silverside beef?

Procured from the hindquarter of cattle, silverside beef can be described best as a lean, boneless cut of meat. It features only a sliver of marbled fat and a wide-grained texture. Silverside beef is quite similar to topside, but as it’s a little tougher, it does require longer cooking to achieve tenderness.

Although it’s often classed as a second-class roasting joint, Silverside of beef can take pride of place on the dining table of any Sunday roast dinner, providing it’s cooked correctly.

How to cook silverside beef

Silverside beef makes for a very good roasting joint. And an affordable one at that. What’s more, it’s fairly easy to cook.

Silverside is best pot-roasted or oven-roasted and is complemented well by garlic and rosemary.

Take your silverside joint out of the oven a couple of hours before cooking, letting it warm to room temperature. Then, season generously before putting it in the oven.

If you’re pot roasting, typically the joint will need a few hours at a lower temperature. Usually around 165?. For oven cooking, cook on a high temperature of around 220? for 20 minutes. Then, drop the temperature to 170? for the rest of the cooking time, usually a couple of hours.

Check the cooking instructions of your silverside beef joint for the exact cooking times.

As huge fans of Sunday beef roasts, we recommend serving it medium-rare alongside an onion gravy and creamy mashed potatoes.

Silverside beef from Campbells

You can buy premium-grade silverside beef roasting joints online today from Campbells Meat. Prepared from Scotch beef, our butcher removes any bones and trim the joint, leaving a maximum of 10mm of fat that helps with the roasting.

As quality online butchers, we specially select the best beef available, primarily from our supplier Scotbeef Inverurie, then dry age it for 21-28 days. This gives the beef time for the flavour to develop and achieve the tenderness required to meet the Campbells Gold standard. Our own hanging chill is temperature and humidity controlled.

Buy silverside beef online today from Campbells Meat and get it delivered freshly to your door, ready to be cooked for your next Sunday Roast dinner!