Tender Pot Roast With Gravy Yankee Style Recipes

Steps:

• Heat large Dutch oven, about 6-7 quarts, and brown the salt pork (can use bacon). Remove the pork from the pan, leaving the fat in the pan. Salt and pepper the chuck roast and brown it in the fat. Brown it well on both sides, turning it with a wooden fork or spatula so you do not puncture the meat.
• When brown, add 2 cups water to the pot and then the bay leaf, garlic, thyme and parsley.
• Cover and simmer slowly for 2 hours, keeping about 1 cup of water in the bttom of the pot.
• Add the carrots, onions and turnip; cover and cook for 1/2 hour. Watch that there is always a cup of water in the bottom of the pot. Add the potatoes and cook until they are tender. WATCH THAT WATER!
• Prepare a roux of the flour and butter by melting the butter in a small frying pan and stirring in the flour. Cook for a few minutes.
• Remove the meat and vegetables from the pan and place on a serving platter. Thicken the gravy with the roux. Use as much or as little roux as you like. The thickness of the gravy is up to you. Correct the seasoning in the gravy and serve the pot roast. You may wish to darken the gravy with some Kitchen Bouquet.

Steps:

• Cut roast in half; rub with 2 tablespoons vinegar. Combine the salt, garlic powder and pepper; rub over meat. In a large skillet, brown roast in oil on all sides. Transfer to a 5-qt. slow cooker. , Place the garlic, bay leaves and onion on roast. In a small bowl, dissolve bouillon in boiling water; stir in soup and remaining vinegar. Slowly pour over roast. Cover and cook on low for 6-8 hours or until meat is tender. , Remove roast; keep warm. Discard bay leaves. Whisk cornstarch and cold water until smooth; stir into cooking juices. Cover and cook on high for 30 minutes or until gravy is thickened. Slice roast; return to slow cooker and heat through.

Steps:

• Set pot roast in roasting pan, sprinkle liberally with salt and pepper.
• Add 2 cups water, beef bouillon, and bay leaf; cover and cook in 250 degree oven for 5 to 6 hours.
• About an hour before supper, add vegetables and turn up oven to 325 degrees and continue baking until vegetables are fork tender.
• Remove meat and vegetables from roaster and pour pan juices into saucepan to make gravy.
• While stirring constantly over medium heat, add enough cornstarch, dissolved in cold water, to pan juices to make desired consistency.
• Season with salt, pepper, and Kitchen Bouquet.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees. In a Dutch oven, heat oil over medium-high heat. Sprinkle roast all over with 1 teaspoon salt and 1/2 teaspoon pepper. Place in pan, and brown on all sides, about 10 minutes.
• Turn meat fat side up. Add stock, wine, if using, onions, garlic, bay leaves, and thyme. Stir in tomato paste. Bring to a simmer, cover; put in the oven, and roast for 3 hours. Add carrots and potatoes, and cook until vegetables are tender, about 1 hour more.
• Transfer the roast, carrots, and potatoes to a platter. With a spoon, skim the fat off the surface of the cooking liquid. Cut the roast into thick slices, and serve with the vegetables. Pass the pan juices separately.

Steps:

• Season the roast with 1/2 teaspoon salt and 1/4 teaspoon pepper.
• In a large skillet (not non-stick) heat the oil over medium-high heat.
• Add the roast and cook, turning often, until browned, about 10 minutes.
• Transfer the roast to a plate.
• Add more oil to the skillet if necessary and heat over medium-high heat.
• Add the onions, carrots and potatoes and cook, stirring often, until the they are slightly browned, about 5 minutes. Do not overcook.
• Transfer the vegetables to a slow-cooker, add the bay leaf and then place th roast on top of the vegetables.
• Add the water or other liquid to the skillet and bring to a boil, scraping up the browned bits on the bottom of the pan with a wooden spoon. Pour into the slow cooker.
• Cover and slow-cook until the roast is tender, perhaps 8 hours on low (200 degree) setting.
• Transfer the roast and vegetables to a platter using a slotted spoon and cover with foil to keep warm.
• Skim the fat from the surface of the cooking liquid.
• Remove the bay leaf.
• In a saucepan, melt the butter over very low heat.
• Add the flour and let bubble, stirring constantly, until lightly browned, about 1 minute.
• Whisk in the cooking liquid and bring to a simmer.
• Cook, whisking often, until thickened and reduced to about 1 cup.
• Using a sharp knife, slice the roast crosswise across the grain. Serve with the vegetables and gravy.

Steps:

• Heat olive oil in stock pot over medium heat; sear roast in the hot oil until slightly browned, about 2 minutes per side. Remove roast from pot and place on a plate. Cook and stir onion and garlic in the hot oil until onion is lightly browned, 10 to 15 minutes.
• Return seared roast to the stock pot; pour coffee and 1 1/2 cup water over roast. Add beef bouillon, basil leaves, 1 tablespoon salt, and pepper.
• Bring broth to a boil; reduce heat to medium low, cover stock pot, and simmer until meat is falling apart, 2 to 3 hours. Remove and discard basil leaves. Transfer roast to a serving dish and cover with a lid or aluminum foil, keeping the broth in the stock pot over medium heat.
• Whisk flour and 1/2 cup water together in a bowl until smooth. Slowly whisk flour mixture into broth until gravy is smooth and somewhat clear; season with salt. Pour about half the gravy over the roast and pour the rest into a gravy boat for serving.

Steps:

• Pre heat oven to 300 degrees.
• Season roast with salt and pepper on all sides.
• In a large dutch oven heat oil, over a medium high heat, do not allow to smoke.
• Brown meat on all sides in dutch oven, this should take about 10 minutes.
• If at any time the oil starts to smoke remove from heat, lower the temperature and continue cooking.
• Once browned remove meat from pot and place on a deep plate (to catch the juices).
• Add vegetables to dutch oven, stirring often, cook until lightly browned and tender.
• Add garlic and cook until fragrant, about 1 minute.
• Add stock, bring to a boil and stir/scrape until all the brown bits are removed from the bottom of the pan.
• Add red wine and sugar. Allow to boil until alcohol smell is gone, put thyme, meat and accumulated juices back in pan.
• Add water until liquid comes halfway up sides of the meat.
• Bring to a simmer, cover with a large piece of foil and the pan lid (to assure seal).
• Place in oven, be sure to turn the meat over every 30 minutes or so.
• Cook until fork tender, 2 1/2- 3 1/2 hours (meat needs to remain above 200 degrees F. for 30 minutes).
• Remove meat from pan onto serving plate, cover with foil.
• Place dutch oven back on stove; boil till liquid is reduced to 1 1/2 cups or so (about 15 mins).
• Thicken if desired.

Steps:

• Saute garlic in butter. Rub meat with salt and flour. Brown it well on all sides in butter. Lay meat on a bed of thin-sliced onion in a large Dutch oven or any pot with a tight-fitting lid. Add butter, spices, and seasonings, and pour rum or wine over meat. (A good pot roast will supply most of its own juices, but as it cooks pour 1/2 cup water over it to make an ample supply of gravy.) Cover tightly and simmer 3 to 4 hours, until the roast is tender. This may be done either in the oven or on the back of the stove. If you want carrots with the pot roast, add them to the pot for the last 30 minutes of cooking. For the last 12 minutes of cooking, add the dumplings to steam in the flavors of the pot. When the roast is done, remove it to a hot, rounded platter and surround with dumplings and carrots. Stir gravy until smooth, correcting seasoning if necessary. Pour gravy over roast; if fresh dill is available, cut it over the dish with a lavish hand.
• Dumplings: Stir together dry ingredients, then add the milk gradually. Drop by the spoonful into gravy and cook with pot roast or stew during the last 12 minutes of cooking.