Portuguese Pot Roast Carne Assada Recipes

Steps:

• Marinade:.
• Place roast in a glass oblong pan, add red wine, 2 sliced onions, garlic, salt and pepper.
• Put in refrigerator and marinate for 24 hrs and turn a few times.
• Heat oil in a dutch oven or heavy kettle with lid, add the remaining 1 sliced onion, brown, remove and save for later.
• Remove roast from marinade, drain and dry. Save marinade for later.
• Brown roast in hot oil on all sides, add browned onions and marinade.
• Add water. Water should cover 2/3's of the roast.
• Cover tightly and simmer for 4 to 4 1/2 hours, turning occasionally.
• The last half hour, add sliced tomatoes and cook uncovered for the last 30 minutes.
• You can strain and thicken the sauce, if desired.

Steps:

• The night before, marinate pot roast in vinegar or red wine, garlic clove, salt and pepper, chopped parsley, bay leaf and sliced onion. In a large heavy pan melt 1/8 cup shortening or cooking oil and brown the pot roast. Turn as necessary until the meat is well browned. While the meat is browning in a dish cut up the remaining ingredients and add the sauce the meat sat in overnight. Once the meat is browned, with a knife cut slits in the pot roast and stuff each slit with some mixture. Repeat until all of the mixture is used and pour the remaining liquid from the stuffing over the meat and simmer. Add a little water. Cover the pan and continue cooking. You will need to check and see what you need to add a little more water - for about 2 hours until the meat is tender. Slice and serve with the juices left in the pan.

Steps:

• In a large heavy Dutch oven, saute the bacon in the olive oil until drippings are rendered and bacon is browned a bit and crisp; transfer bacon to a paper towel-lined plate to drain.
• In the bacon drippings, brown the beef roast well on all sides over moderately high heat.
• Transfer to the plate with bacon, then add onions, garlic, bay leaves, peppercorns and cloves to the Dutch oven.
• Saute about 10 to 15 minutes or until lightly browned.
• Blend in tomato paste, lower the heat, cover and steam for 20 minutes.
• Remove and set aside half of the tomato-onion mixture; place the beef roast back into the Dutch oven with the bacon, then spoon remaining tomato-onion mixture on top.
• Carefully pour the wine and salt around the beef roast and bring to a simmer.
• Preheat oven to 375 degrees F.
• Cove and bake in the 375 degree oven for 2 hours; remove and turn beef over in the liquid.
• Lower oven temperature to 325 degrees F then bake uncovered about 1 hour longer or until meat is falling-apart tender (and it will be!).