From Joy of Cooking, 1975 edition, – Beef Pot Roast:
A long time favorite beef roast recipe from the Donlan family in Lincoln. Tried on a DS Family Farm Chuck Roast fall 2019 with excellent results.
This is a traditional recipe which is perfect for a lean DS Family Farm beef roast.
Marg adds these notes:
Cook it in the oven 300 degrees for 1 hour per pound turning the roast every 30 minutes or so to keep all sides moist.
Chef tips:
- Salt two days ahead. THIS IS KEY, as the salting adds flavor early, as it is hard to correct later on. For this recipe, salting ahead of time makes all the difference.
- Also browning both the meat and the diced vegetables before roasting and adding to the pot the onion.
- Rub the garlic but consider skipping the diced turnips and green peppers.
- No need to use flour, it works just fine without (makes it Gluten-Free).
Ingredients
| 3 | pounds | chuck, shoulder, top or bottom round, brisket, blade or rump roast |
| Garlic | ||
| Flour | ||
| 2 | tablespoons | rendered suet or vegetable oil |
| 1 | chopped | carrot |
| 1 | diced | rib of celery |
| 1 | diced | small white turnip |
| 1/4 | cup | chopped green pepper, seed and membrane removed |
| 1 | small | onion quartered |
| 2 | cups | boiling meat or vegetable stock or part stock and part dry red wine |
| 1 | bay leaf |
Instructions
- Rub meat with Garlic
- Dredge in Four.
- Heat in a heavy pan: 2 tablespoons of suet or vegetable oil. Brown the meat on all sides in the fat. Do not let it scorch.
- When meat is half browned, add carrot, celery, turnip, green pepper to pot.
- When meat is browned, spoon off excess fat. Add small onion, boiling meat or vegetable stock (or stock and wine), and bay leaf.
- Cover and bake 3 to 4 hours in a 300 – 325 degree oven, or simmer on top of the stove. During this time turn the meat several times and, if necessary, add additional: Hot stock and Season to taste.
- When the meat is tender, spoon off excess fat, remove bay leaf and serve with the pot liquor as it is or slightly thickened with: Kneaded Butter or 3/4 cup cultured sour cream.
- You may, if you wish, add to the pot roast drained boiled vegetables.