Santa Maria Grilled Tri-Tip Beef

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A Santa Maria tri-tip with a delicious spice rub is cooked on the grill until black-on-the-outside and perfectly pink inside for a spectacular steak. The tri-tip is cut from the bottom sirloin and when cooked properly, produces a very flavorful, incredibly juicy piece of beef. The town of Santa Maria, California, is home to this delicious barbecued beef specialty.

Prep
25 min
Cook
119 min
Servings
Difficulty
Hard

Ingredients

Instructions

  1. 1 Gather the ingredients.
  2. 2 Stir salt, black pepper, garlic powder, paprika, onion powder, rosemary, and cayenne pepper together in a bowl.
  3. 3 Place tri-tip in a glass baking dish and coat on all sides with spice mixture. Cover the dish with plastic wrap and refrigerate for 4 hours.
  4. 4 Combine vinegar, vegetable oil, crushed garlic, and Dijon mustard in a sealable container. Cover the container and shake until ingredients are blended.
  5. 5 Remove tri-tip from the refrigerator. Let sit uncovered at room temperature for 30 minutes.
  6. 6 Preheat an outdoor grill for high heat; lightly oil the grates.
  7. 7 Place tri-tip on the preheated grill and brush with vinegar mixture. Cook for 4 minutes, flip, and baste. Flip and baste every 4 minutes until tri-tip starts to firm up and is reddish-pink and juicy in the center, 25 to 30 minutes total. An instant-read thermometer inserted into the center should read 130 degrees F (54 degrees C).
  8. 8 Let rest for at least 10 minutes before slicing.

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