Prime Rib with Mustard Cream Sauce Recipe

Learn how to cook the perfect Prime Rib with step-by-step instructions and photos. This prime rib recipe will be the star of your holiday table, and it's even better with a drizzle of mustard cream sauce.

Serve Prime Rib with all the trimmings: the Best Mashed Potatoes, Roasted Asparagus, snappy Green Beans with Bacon, and fluffySoft Yeast Dinner Rolls. For more essential holiday dinner menu ideas, have a look.

Steakhouses would certainly have you think that choice prime rib can only be found in a restaurant. But the best prime rib roast recipe ever is actually easier than you might think, as long as you have the right guide

Consider this your Prime Rib 101.

All the standing rib roast details are here:

• where to buy the best roast
• what to ask your butcher for
• a temperature cooking chart that will keep your meal on track (as long as everyone arrives on time.)

Above all, dont be intimidated by a giant roast; the slow roasted prime rib cut just needs a little extra babying to become unbelievably tender. Most of the active cooking is spent in the oven or resting, so you have lots of time to see to all the other details of your delicious dinner menu.