Peppered Beef Tenderloin With Mustard Horseradish Sauce

Total Time: 45 mins Preparation Time: 10 mins Cook Time: 35 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 6
• 1 cup sour cream
• 2 teaspoons prepared horseradish (more if you like it spicy!)
• 3 tablespoons dijon mustard
• 6 teaspoons peppercorns (black, and green)
• 2 teaspoons coarse salt
• 3 tablespoons dijon mustard
• 5/8 cup room temperature butter
• 1 cup loosely packed fresh parsley, chopped
• 1 (2 lb) beef tenderloin, trimmed

Recipe

• 1 sauce: whisk all ingredients together. cover and refrigerate until you serve. can be prepared 2 days in advance.
• 2 beef:
• 3 coarsely grind all peppercorns and transfer to bowl. mix in salt.
• 4 whisk butter, parsley and mustard together and spread over tenderloin.
• 5 roll in pepper mixture and cover completely with pepper.
• 6 heat oven to 450.
• 7 place tenderloin on rack in shallow baking pan.
• 8 roast until meat thermometer inserted in center registers 130 degrees for rare/about 35 minutes; (or 40-50 minutes for medium, 50-60 for well).
• 9 transfer to platter and let stand 10 minutes. then slice and garnish with parsley and sauce.