Pot Roast

[vy2005]

Ok, please treat this post like I am a complete idiot, but I have never made a pot roast before and have to make one next weekend. Can somebody give me a recipe starting with the kind of meat to buy, vegetables added, marindaes, etc. along with oven cooking time. Thanks.

 

[Mr.Wizard]

I appreciate this post.

I am using this convection oven and want to try P roast as well.

recipes are welcomed.

do you pierce the skin, for garlic cloves, or does that mess with the juices?

 

[LovinTheAtx]

I actually use different things for marinade. I actually use some soy sauce and teriyaki sauce. I've been adding carrots and fingerling potatoes as well to the roast. The fingerling potatoes come out great with the roast.

Sometimes I do throw in onions for favor and stick garlic pieces after piercing a few spots sometimes as well along with salt, fresh black pepper, etc.

I've used other marinades, but this seems to be the favorite among the people I cook for.

Now as for the piece of meat rump roast is good, but i started using the cheaper chuck roast while I was in college. Since I slow cook it for hours, it tends to get just as tender as the roast. Someone maybe able to give you a better piece of meat, but that's just what I use when I need a cheap and good meal.

I know other people have used the dry packets of onion soup for a marinade as well.

If someone can add oven preparation info, since I use a crock pot usually, that would be great. Also, I want to try some other marinades as well...so fire away.

 

[wedgie]

A very easy dish to cook. A chuck roast and rump roast work well but for me I prefer a true California tri-tip roast. I try rub mine with seasoned salt, black pepper and garlic powder.

As for veggies, potatoes (the finger lings previously mentioned are awesome), sliced chunks of cabbage, cut up carrots, asparagus, red onion seem to work well.

Brown the roast on all sides in whatever you are cooking it in. Turn off heat, add veggies (best to put taters on the bottom), put in about two cups beef stock or red wine, cover and place in oven at 325 to 350.

At 90 minutes you should have about a medium cooked roast. I like medium rare so I start checking mine at about the one hour mark. Also remember the meat will continue to cook once removed so therefore remove when slightly undercooked to your liking.

Veggies sometimes may need to cook a little longer. Never let the beef broth or wine completely cook away.

Wait about 15-20 minutes before you carve meat.

Enjoy.

 

[DallasCowpoke]

I actually did this, or a version of it at least. I'm heating up leftovers as I type this too.

SLOW-COOKED HORSERADISH POT ROAST

3 Lb. boneless beef bottom round roast or rump roast
1 TBS. vegetable oil
8 small red potatoes, quartered
3 cups fresh or frozen baby carrots
1 large onion, coarsely chopped
3 ribs celery, sliced
1 5-oz. jar prepared white horseradish
1 tsp. salt
1/4 tsp. black pepper
1 cup beef broth, The stuff in the box is best.
strips good bacon

Heat oil in large skillet over medium heat.

Season meat liberally with salt and pepper; dust lightly w/ flour Brown beef on all sides, about 10 minutes total.

Place all vegetables in heavy Dutch oven.

Place beef on top of vegetables.

spread horseradish over beef.

Add stock to Dutch oven.

Cover and cook at 350 for 1 hour, lower heat to 250 for 3-5 hours.

 

[DeadHeadHorn]

I wish I still had the "Good Eats" on pot roast, because it was some of Alton's finest work.

One tip I remember from the episode was that he took a terracotta planter and put it over the roast, upside-down. The theory is that the heat waves from inside the oven bounce off randomly when the oven's not totally clean and that the planter evenly disperses the heat evenly.

Actually, I just found the transcript from the Good Eats fan page.

That'll tell you everything you need to know.

 

[alden]

You could also use a large crock pot if you have one. It makes the whole thing really easy.

There's a bunch of recipes on www.allrecipes.com.
For example, Easiest-Pot-Roast-Ever

Try it with a tri-tip roast, although almost any beef roast will do. Make sure the vegetables go under the meat. I like it with red potatoes, carrots, onion, and some mushrooms. Maybe some tomatoes too, though they will dissolve and just flavor the sauce. Takes about 8 hours, but you can start it in the morning, and when you get home, you'll have a yummy dinner ready.

 

[flaco]

One trick I use is to slather horseradish sauce on top of the meat before cooking. It sounds weird but the strong flavor of the horseradish goes away leaving a subtle, delicious flavor.

 

[Arnold Layne]

Buy the roast cut of your choice. Throw it in the oven with cut up potatoes, celery and carrots. Add water with two packs of some beef stew seasoning. Cover and cook.

 

[Les Claypool]

Easy and tasty.

Put roast in crock pot on low with package of lipton onion soup mix and 3/4 inch of water.

Cook 8-12 hours. Will make its own broth.

Good for turning on before work, and eating when you return.

 

[hullabelew]

Thread with pictures

 

[Mrmyke709]

That was the best pot roast I've ever made, hullabalew. Thx for the repost.