Ultimate Pot Roast
From chefjeb 17 years ago
- 240 minutes to make
- Serves 8
This is slap yo' momma pot roast. The ultimate comfort food. Serve with smashed potatoes and english peas or green beans and the veggies that are cooked with the roast. Ain't nuthin better.
Ingredients
- 4 or 5 lb beef shoulder roast shopping list
- flour shopping list
- oil shopping list
- salt and pepper shopping list
- 3 onions shopping list
- 6 carrots shopping list
- four ribs celery shopping list
- 2 bay leaves shopping list
- 1 envelope onion soup mix shopping list
- 1 tbs garlic shopping list
- 1 cup red wine shopping list
- 1 tbs worcestershire shopping list
- 3 beef bullion cubes shopping list
- 2 tbs beef base shopping list
- cornstarch (optional) shopping list
How to make it
- Trim roast of any outside fat.
- Season roast with salt and pepper and dredge in flour.
- Sear both sides in hot dutch oven coated with oil. You will use dutch oven to cook roast.
- Add onions, quartered aand 4 carrots cut into about three pieces each. Add celery cut into two or three inch pieces.
- Add bay leaves, garlic, onion soup mix.
- Add enough water to almost cover roast. DO NOT COVER.
- Add beef base and bullion cubes, wine and worcestershire.
- Cover and place in 325 degree oven and leave for 3 hours.
- Check and if it is not falling apart tender, cook longer.
- At this point you may add more carrots for side veggies.
- Remove roast when fork tender and put dutch oven on stove and heat gravy to slow boil. Add 1 tbs cornstarch mixed in 1/3 cup cool water and stir in and let simmer for about four minutes. This thickening is optional. Serve with real mashed potatoes,
The Rating
Reviewed by 7 people-
I made this and the killer mashed potatoes and I have never had such a tasty roast. The gravy is heaven.
ramlynrose
in Pearl loved it
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Simply excellent. My wife loved it and asked for more. We'll be trying a lot more of your recipes.
gnnoles
in Cleveland loved it
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Couldn't be better.
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5/17/13
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in Athens loved it
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