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Spoon Roast with Horseradish Cream

December 22, 2016 By Cooking Chat 66 Comments

Looking for a spoon roast recipe? This Spoon Roast with Horseradish Cream is one of our favorite recipes. Follow our cooking method for making tender spoon roast. Top it off with a simple and tasty horseradish cream for a delicious meal! Sirloin roast is the name of the cut used for a spoon roast. Read on for more info on cooking spoon roast and our wine pairing ideas, or click here to jump down to the recipe
spoon roast with horseradish cream, plated with potatoes and green beans.

There’s nothing like the smell of roast beef cooking in the oven on a cold winter day. For me, it brings back good memories of Sunday visits to my Nana’s. The roast beef we enjoyed there was served with a basic gravy. I kick thing up a notch here with my Spoon Roast with Horseradish Cream recipe.

I’ve made this recipe several times in the past year. This spoon roast is very popular in our house, and is also the most visited recipe on Cooking Chat.

Give it a try, and you will see why! After making the spoon roast with horseradish cream in December of 2016, I have made a few updates to the post to get it ready for those of you who might want to prepare this as your holiday roast.

What is spoon roast?

Spoon Roast is made using the sirloin roast cut of beef. When I first made it a few years back, I found a wide range of opinions about how to cook it. I decided to try the method that has you start the roast in a cold oven, turning the heat up high to get some browning going on the outside. After ten minutes, the oven is reduced to a lower roasting temperature. This approach worked well the first time, and I stick with it here in this Spoon Roast with Horseradish Cream recipe. I also used the same basic method with good results in the Spoon Roast with Mushrooms and Farro recipe we made.

I typically by the jar of chopped horseradish root, but they were out of it the day I was planning to make this. So I got a whole horseradish root and prepared it myself. The recipe assumes you’ve found the prepared horseradish–here’s one option for horseradish available via my Amazon affiliate link–but if you want to try preparing it with the root, here’s the method I followed.

spoon roast with horseradish cream. Cooking Chat recipe.

How to Cook Spoon Roast

We start our spoon roast in a cold oven, then bring it up to 450 degrees. The beef roasts for 10 minutes at that higher temperature, which helps brown the outside. Then we drop the temp to 325 degrees to slowly roast the beef. The 20 minutes roasting per pound for a medium rare spoon roast has held up well making this recipe several times, in two different ovens.

Note the cooking temperatures here are based on a conventional oven. I noticed someone recently came to this post by Googling “How to cook a spoon roast in a convection oven?”. I haven’t tested with this recipe, but generally dropping the given temperature by 25 degrees when converting from conventional to convection is a good rule of thumb.

There’s not too much active cooking here. Just get the rub made and the roast started in the oven, then relax and enjoy the smells as it slowly cooks to perfection! Slice it up thin, topped with the sauce, along with some potatoes and a green vegetable. And of course, serve with a good glass of red wine…

Paso Robles Cabernet Sauvignon from Halter Ranch, paired with Cooking Chat Spoon Roast recipe.

Wine Pairing for Spoon Roast with Horseradish Cream

I came up with this Roasted Sirloin Steak with Chanterelle Mushrooms recipe to go with a bottle of the 2012 Paso Robles Cabernet Sauvignon from Halter Ranch. I had a second bottle on hand that I decided to save for a hearty winter roast. This spoon roast with horseradish cream seemed to be a good time to open it up!

This Cabernet is deep red in the glass. I got eucalyptus on the nose. I tasted blackberry and cherry fruit, along with notes of charcoal. Tannins are well-integrated. Definitely had the substance to stand up to the roast, and did fine with the kick from the horseradish. A very good pairing for Spoon Roast with Horseradish Cream!

Updated Wine Pairing Idea: When we most recently made this spoon roast recipe, we had a chance to try another wine with it. We opened a bottle of 2013 Enkidu Old Vine Zinfandel ($26, 15.4% ABV) from Sonoma Valley. As you might suspect, the Zinfandel picks up the horseradish spice as well as matching up well with the beef. Another good wine pairing for Spoon Roast with Horseradish Cream!

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Spoon Roast with Horseradish Cream

spoon roast with horseradish cream is great for a Sunday family dinner. Most popular Cooking Chat recipe in 2015.

★★★★★

5 from 13 reviews

Spoon Roast is a classic roast beef, made with a simple rub and served with a tasty horseradish cream sauce.

  • Author: Cooking Chat
  • Prep Time: 10 mins
  • Cook Time: 90 mins
  • Total Time: 1 hour 40 mins
  • Yield: 9 servings 1x
  • Category: Main
  • Method: roasting
  • Cuisine: American
Scale

Ingredients

  • 1 medium sirloin roast (ours was about 4 lbs)
  • 1 tbsp garlic powder
  • 1 tbsp salt
  • ½ tbsp dried rosemary
  • 2 tbsp chopped horseradish
  • 1 cup whipping cream
  • ½ tsp mustard (Dijon or basic yellow mustard)

Instructions

  1. Make the rub by combining the garlic powder, salt and rosemary in a bowl.
  2. Spread the rub over the beef, patting it into the meat. Let the beef sit at room temperature for 10 minutes to let the flavors absorb.
  3. Place the spoon roast into a roasting pan, and then put it into a cold oven. Turn the oven up to 450 degrees, cook for 10 minutes after it has reached 450.
  4. Lower the heat to 325 degrees, and cook at that temperature 20 minutes for every pound of meat.
  5. Check for doneness toward the end of the projected cooking time. When almost done cooking to your taste, remove from oven. Tent loosely with foil to let it rest.
  6. Make the cream by whipping the cream together with the horseradish and mustard.
  7. Slice the beef thinly, then serve with the cream and a nice Cabernet Sauvignon!

Notes

  • Amazon affiliate link included to one option for prepared horseradish.
  • You can use fresh horseradish root following this method from Simply Recipes.
  • The temperature given here is based on a conventional oven setting. I haven’t tested with this recipe, but generally dropping the given temperature by 25 degrees when converting from conventional to convection is a good rule of thumb.

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Tools to use: You need a good roasting pan for this recipe and other roasts. We have been happy with the Circulon roasting pan, pretty affordable and good size for roasts like this. Sharing my Amazon affiliate link for the product, meaning I’d earn a modest commission if you choose to buy using this link.

Full disclosure: I received a courtesy sample of Halter Ranch wine from the winery. As always, the opinions expressed here are entirely my own.

Filed Under: entrees, wine pairing, winter recipes Tagged With: beef, Cabernet Sauvignon, paso robles, roasts, spoon roast, wine pairing

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Comments

  1. Dorothy at Shockingly Delicious says

    January 24, 2015 at 1:21 pm

    That is one good lookin’ dinner! Love that you used the horseradish root.

    Reply
  2. Evelyn says

    September 28, 2015 at 6:20 am

    After I place the roast in the cold oven is it 10 minutes once the oven has reached full temp of 450 and then reduce?

    Reply
    • Cooking Chat says

      September 28, 2015 at 8:25 pm

      Good question, Evelyn. Yes, 10 minutes after reaching 450, then turn it down. Thanks for asking, I will clarify that in the instructions.

      Reply
      • Amanda Dearborn says

        February 13, 2017 at 1:15 pm

        Sounds delicious! Am going to make this today. What type of mustard are you using for the horseradish cream sauce? Dry, yellow, brown?

        Reply
        • Cooking Chat says

          February 13, 2017 at 1:33 pm

          hi Amanda–I used Dijon mustard, basic yellow mustard would work too. Hope you like it!

          Reply
  3. Felesha says

    January 17, 2016 at 6:08 pm

    Yum! Looking forward to trying this cream sauce! Thanks for sharing!

    Reply
  4. April says

    January 17, 2016 at 6:22 pm

    Yum a hearty old school meal. I know your house smelled amazing that day. Looks delicious!

    ★★★★★

    Reply
  5. Christine | Vermilion Roots says

    January 17, 2016 at 6:32 pm

    Horseradish cream sounds really good. Is it like wasabi?

    Reply
  6. Rebekah says

    January 17, 2016 at 7:11 pm

    I LOVE horseradish!! Probably one of my top 5 favorite flavors and I never knew the sauce was so easy. Where would I get raw horseradish?

    ★★★★★

    Reply
    • Cooking Chat says

      January 17, 2016 at 9:35 pm

      Hi Rebekah–I got raw horseradish at Whole Foods. It’s a big root basically. Probably other well stocked produce departments would have it, too.

      Reply
  7. Liz says

    January 17, 2016 at 7:11 pm

    Perfectly cooked beef! My hubby would adore that plate of food—heck, so would I!

    Reply
    • Cooking Chat says

      January 17, 2016 at 9:34 pm

      Thanks Liz! This did come out just right.

      Reply
  8. Jodi says

    February 14, 2016 at 6:11 pm

    This was incredibly tasty.

    ★★★★★

    Reply
    • Cooking Chat says

      February 15, 2016 at 7:30 am

      Need to make it again soon!

      Reply
  9. Julie | Bunsen Burner Bakery says

    October 9, 2016 at 8:08 am

    That horseradish cream sounds delicious!

    Reply
    • Cooking Chat says

      October 9, 2016 at 8:48 am

      Thanks Julie, I’d say it is!

      Reply
  10. Boastful Food says

    October 9, 2016 at 9:03 am

    Fresh horseradish root is soooo good! I bet this cream with that roast is the perfect paring:)

    Reply
    • Cooking Chat says

      October 9, 2016 at 12:23 pm

      Thanks, it did come out quite well.

      Reply
  11. Kavey says

    October 9, 2016 at 11:25 am

    I’d never heard of spoon roast before, lovely to learn about it. Your recipe look delicious!

    Reply
    • Cooking Chat says

      October 9, 2016 at 12:23 pm

      Thanks!

      Reply
  12. Naina says

    October 9, 2016 at 12:14 pm

    I havent heard of a spoon roast before, but it sounds delish! And that horseradish cream sounds right up my alley 🙂

    Reply
    • Cooking Chat says

      October 9, 2016 at 12:22 pm

      Thanks, it is a very good kind of roast beef!

      Reply
  13. Elizabeth @ SugarHero.com says

    October 9, 2016 at 2:37 pm

    I’ve never even heard of a spoon roast! Your gorgeous pictures convinced me I need to give it a try, though!

    Reply
    • Cooking Chat says

      October 9, 2016 at 3:36 pm

      Thanks, it’s worth a try I’d say!

      Reply
  14. Natalie says

    December 24, 2017 at 8:35 am

    YUM! This roast looks like such a great idea for dinner! Will definitely try soon ♥

    Reply
    • Cooking Chat says

      December 24, 2017 at 2:54 pm

      hope you enjoy it!

      Reply
  15. Amy says

    December 24, 2017 at 10:27 am

    I have never heard of a spoon roast before but this looks delicious and I love the horseradish cream you served with it! Such great, savory flavors!

    ★★★★★

    Reply
  16. Ellen says

    December 24, 2017 at 4:16 pm

    Pinning this so I can make this for my 13 year old son who loves any and all things with horseradish! Looks like a delicious meal

    Reply
  17. Noel Lizotte says

    December 24, 2017 at 4:42 pm

    Wow! Save a plate for me! I’m coming to dinner! This is amazing!
    I love pot roast, and appreciate the new way to prep it.

    ★★★★★

    Reply
  18. Anna says

    November 23, 2018 at 4:58 am

    I love that you’ve made your own horseradish sauce! My other half is always in charge of Sunday roast, so I can’t wait to share this recipe and method with him!

    ★★★★★

    Reply
    • Cooking Chat says

      November 23, 2018 at 12:10 pm

      Sunday roast is a great tradition!

      Reply
  19. Cathleen @ A Taste of Madness says

    November 23, 2018 at 7:51 am

    Oh, I agree. The smell coming out of the oven on a cold day is everything!! This looks so good!!

    ★★★★★

    Reply
    • Cooking Chat says

      November 23, 2018 at 12:10 pm

      yes, gotta love the smell of a roast!

      Reply
  20. Sherri says

    November 23, 2018 at 11:43 am

    First of all, I LOVE horseradish! I even found a horseradish and beet hummus at Whole Foods that I hid in the fridge and hoarded for myself. I bet the horseradish cream is to die for on this spoon roast! I have to admit that I have never made spoon roast before, so I will have to try it. Sounds perfect with that Zinfandel you recommended. 🙂

    ★★★★★

    Reply
    • Cooking Chat says

      November 23, 2018 at 12:07 pm

      Thanks Sherri! That hummus sounds great!

      Reply
  21. Nicoletta De Angelis Nardelli says

    November 23, 2018 at 12:27 pm

    My husband is the meat eater in the family and he is the one who cooks the meat. He would love this roast.

    Reply
    • Cooking Chat says

      November 23, 2018 at 3:51 pm

      Definitely a good recipe for carnivores!

      Reply
  22. Kiki Johnson says

    November 23, 2018 at 2:51 pm

    I love beef with horseradish! Such a great combination and the roast seems to be super tender and fall-apart! A perfect Sunday roast!

    ★★★★★

    Reply
    • Cooking Chat says

      November 23, 2018 at 3:52 pm

      thanks, it is a perfect Sunday roast recipe if I do say so myself!

      Reply
  23. Nicole says

    November 23, 2018 at 8:56 pm

    I never heard of the concept “Spoon Pot Roast” and thank you for explaining it to us. I never tried the method of putting a pot roast in a cold oven and cooking it on a high temperature and then lower the temperature.

    Reply
    • Cooking Chat says

      November 24, 2018 at 1:48 pm

      Fun to learn new things in the world of food, right?

      Reply
  24. Kelly Anthony says

    November 24, 2018 at 8:41 am

    I had never heard of spoon roast before! Thank you for enlightening me 😉 This looks fantastic and would be so much more budget-friendly for the holidays!

    ★★★★★

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    • Cooking Chat says

      November 24, 2018 at 1:48 pm

      Hi Kelly–yes, it is a good value cut, and very tasty!

      Reply
  25. Emily says

    November 24, 2018 at 5:37 pm

    That looks delicious. The horseradish sauce sounds wonderful – the perfect combination.

    Reply
  26. anne lawton says

    November 25, 2018 at 8:42 am

    I love sirloin roasts, and that horseradish sauce sounds like the perfect sauce for it.

    ★★★★★

    Reply
  27. lauren says

    November 25, 2018 at 8:30 pm

    I have to admit, I’ve never heard of a spoon roast before! The method and ingredients sound familiar though. I love the idea of using the horseradish to spice things up – and the wine pairings. Red Zinfandel, especially from Sonoma, are my favorite red wines to drink (anytime) but specifically with roasts.

    Reply
    • Cooking Chat says

      November 26, 2018 at 6:42 am

      Thanks Lauren! Horseradish & zin definitely work nicely together.

      Reply
  28. Michelle says

    November 26, 2018 at 3:16 am

    I love that horseradish cream! I too had never heard of a spoon roast so thank you for such an informative post!

    ★★★★★

    Reply
    • Cooking Chat says

      November 26, 2018 at 6:40 am

      Thanks Michelle! Spoon roast is definitely a tasty option to know about.

      Reply
  29. Saima says

    December 23, 2018 at 11:24 pm

    Interesting that you start with a cold oven, then raise the temperature and again bring it down. I suppose that is the secret to cooking it to perfection. Also the horseradish cream and veggies are the perfect accompaniments.

    Reply
    • Cooking Chat says

      December 24, 2018 at 8:09 am

      Thanks for stopping by. That method with the oven temps helps to get a good brown searing on the outside of the meat. I didn’t create the method but have adopted it with good results!

      Reply
  30. Bonnie Lyman says

    January 4, 2019 at 10:24 am

    Wonderful!

    ★★★★★

    Reply
  31. Suzanne says

    April 9, 2019 at 1:06 pm

    I was just wondering if you can cook the roast in a cast iron pot with the lid on. I would think it would be very tender. What do you think

    Reply
    • Cooking Chat says

      April 13, 2019 at 7:44 am

      Hi Suzanne–sorry I just saw your comment. I would never say an absolute no to an experiment, but I’m initially skeptical about that approach for a spoon roast. The method you describe sounds a bit like a pot roast, where you typically have a cut that requires long, slow cooking. The spoon roast is a lean cut that cooks relatively quickly. But if you try it and it comes out great I’d like to hear about it!

      Reply

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