If you’re a sucker for all the seasonal traditions, we’ve got the ultimate Christmas roast beef recipe. 

There’s also a tender and flavourful prime rib recipe, and a steak dish too that’s quick and easy to prepare.

Finally, we also offer some suggestions for side dishes so that you’ve got a complete Christmas meal sorted.

Let’s find out more about why you should reach for beef this festive season.

Why beef?

While turkey and ham are the traditional Christmas meat, many people are seeking equally tasty and nutritious alternatives.

Beef is an excellent choice to feed the family this holiday. It’s a rich source of protein and high in vitamins and minerals. These include vitamin B12, beneficial for your brain and nervous system, zinc to boost your immune system, and iron to aid oxygen transportation through your body.

What’s special about grass-fed beef?

We’ve specified grass-fed beef in all our recipes. There’s a good reason for this — and why it’s the only type of beef we sell.

Our grass-fed and grass-finished beef is so called because the animals it’s derived from are free to roam about and feed only on natural pasture, as they would in the wild.

This is in contrast to grain-fed beef, which is produced intensively and includes additional hormones and antibiotics to stimulate growth and avoid disease.

Grass-fed beef is free of these, resulting in tastier and healthier meat for you, produced by the most sustainable, natural and humane farming methods. 

At Provenir, we are also committed to the ‘paddock to plate‘ philosophy. This means we reduce the distance that meat travels to reach your plate as much as possible by using mobile abattoirs on the farms where animals are reared, which is also a more humane option for them.

More about the recipes…

There’s a recipe for every Christmas occasion — formal and informal — in our selection here. Choose the one that suits your cooking and eating style best…or why not sample all three?

The English Roast

This step-by-step recipe is ideal if you want to cook a traditional family meal but need a helping hand. You’ll find it includes all the trimmings for a traditional roast meal too, making planning super easy.

Our Grass-fed Beef Porterhouse Roast cut is ideal here. It’s a lean cut with an outer layer of fat that enhances the natural flavour of the meat and stops it from drying out.

Christmas Prime Rib

Slightly less traditional than the roast recipe, this prime rib dish makes a great alternative. It benefits from the distinctive flavours of horseradish sauce and Dijon mustard and a delicious jus sauce that makes the most of the flavour-filled pan drippings.

Reach for our Rustic Rib-Eye Roast joint for this recipe. This cut of meat is especially tender and has good marbling (fat running through it) for a rich and juicy taste.

Christmas Steak

This tasty recipe is the quickest of the three recipes to prepare, making it ideal for a simple family meal that you can rustle up with the minimum of effort. And the delicious Mexican-inspired sauce comes with a spicy kick to stimulate your senses.

We recommend our Grass-fed Porterhouse on the Bone for this recipe. It contains five bone-in Porterhouse steaks, ideal for feeding the family.

What about side dishes?

While the English roast recipe comes with a variety of side dishes, you may also want to seek inspiration from our ideas for brisket sides. The Southeast Asian coleslaw is a fresh and healthy dish, while you’ll also find a scalloped potatoes recipe (including a dairy-free version) for an indulgent festive side.

Easy delivery straight to your door

Make planning your Christmas menu even easier by getting your beef delivered directly to your door.

Check your postcode to know if you’re in our delivery area, and let us bring your Christmas grass-fed beef straight to your home. 

Once you’ve got your Christmas recipes sorted, you can sit back, relax and look forward to enjoying the festive season!