Grilled Tri Tip

Tri Tip roasts are a go-to dinner at our household. They cook up well, they make enough for either a crowd or for a future dinner, and they're ridiculously easy. Untrimmed tritip roasts are often on sale too. This week, I opted for the hand trimmed roast that also happened to be on sale. Joey usually does the grilling for this bad boy but today I took over and I'm here to share the method.

We grill on a Weber Genesis Gas Grill and this is the method for gas-grilling this beef.

Ingredients

1 tri tip roast (usually around 2 1/2 lbs)

kosher salt

1. Turn on all three burners on the grill and heat to around 500 degrees but hotter is fine.

2. Meanwhile, rub kosher salt into the meat all over--use more than you need because it will fall off a little on the grill.

3. Once the grill is hot, place the meat over the center burner area in the center of the grill. Sear the meat--this should take around 5 minutes.

4. Once the meat has a nice crust, flip it over--watch out for flareups especially if you are using the un-trimmed variety.

5. Sear the other side of the meat for an additional 5 minutes. Now turn off the center burner but don't move the meat. This is called cooking on indirect heat.

6. Check the meat every 5-7 minutes for doneness. Ours took about 20 or so minutes to get up to 140 degrees in the thickest part. Actually, it wasn't as rare as I like it but it was a perfect medium for Joey.

7. Let rest a few minutes before cutting and then slice it from the thin edge into thin slices.

BBQ Tri-Tip Burritos

We spent Saturday in Ojai visiting some family friends. Before we went to their house, we stopped at a local Mexican restaurant called Jim & Rob's Fresh Grill. While eating our tacos, we noticed a peculiar menu item--the bbq tri-tip burrito. Intrigued but stuffed, we decided we'd have to try it next time.

Instead, Jerry (Joey's dad for those of you who don't know names) decided to make it tonight! The recipe called for tri-tip (a type of beef that seems to be available only in California), pinto beans, salsa, cheese and of course, tortillas.

This is pretty much the easiest recipe ever--I hardly qualify it as a recipe at all. Surprisingly, the burritos were good. The barbecue sauce added a whole new level of flavor to the burritos. If I were to change anything, I'd just make them tacos and use corn tortillas OR homemade tortillas instead.

BBQ Tri-Tip Burritos

Tri-tip (2 pounds for 4 people)
Pinto Beans
Tortillas
Salsa - don't let the flavors overpower the bbq sauce
BBQ Seasoning
BBQ Sauce
Cheese

Directions

1. Sprinkle BBQ seasoning over tri-tip
2. BBQ tri-tip until medium rare
3. Meanwhile, heat canned pinto beans on the stove
4. Slice meat into bite-sized strips

Assembly:

1. Heat tortilla in the microwave or on the grill
2. Fill with meat
3. Add beans
4. Add Salsa and Cheese
5. Drizzle with bbq sauce on top (I recommend heating the sauce a little)
6. Fold the sides in and enjoy