Mom’s Pot Roast

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Nothing says “comfort food” to me like a delicious, made from scratch, pot roast! My mom always made a mean pot roast and because I like sharing the love I’m passing on the recipe to you 🙂 Guten Appetit!

Ingredients

  • Bottom round
  • 1 small bag of new potatoes (really any potatoes will do – just make sure to cut large ones into quarters)
  • 1 small bag of carrots
  • 2 beef cubes
  • Garlic salt
  • 1 chopped onion
  • Dutch oven
  • 1 small/fine sieve

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Cooking Directions (it all takes place on the stove top)

  • Warm some vegetable oil and a pad of butter in the Dutch oven on high heat.
  • Add the onion.
  • Salt and pepper the bottom round and then brown each side of the meat (still on high heat).
  • Pour water half way up the meat. Add 2 beef cubes and sprinkle with garlic salt.
  • Bring meat to a boil, and then simmer. Cover and let cook for 1 hour.
  • Next, add carrots and potatoes. Cover and simmer for at least 1 ½ – 2 hours.

* Cooking time will depend on the size of your bottom round, so I check my meat after the 1 ½ hours, but may decide to let it simmer for another hour or two if I feel the meat isn’t tender enough (I like when it just falls apart).

 

Gravy

  • Remove meat and vegetables from the Dutch oven, leaving only the sauce behind.
  • Using a fine sieve sprinkle 1 tablespoon of flour into sauce, whisking as you sieve.
  • Continue to add flour slowly through the sieve until desired thickness.
  • Salt and pepper to taste.
  • Add meat and vegetables back into gravy.

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Grab a bowl and a spoon and cozy up with some seriously delicious goodness 🙂

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Stephanie Cullum
Hey y’all! My name is Stephanie, a stay-at-home mommy, former teacher, Gemini, lover of books, quirky shoes, jeans (I own like twenty of them), coffee, travel and good food…oh and I’m also a wife and mother to my one and only daughter – she’s two and cute as a button! I’m half American and half German, born in Argentina, and grew up in Germany, Hong Kong and Singapore before moving to Dallas to go to college (go SMU). Needless to say I’m not a native to the Rio Grande Valley, but my husband is. He enticed me down here with the promise of good Mexican food, beaches, and close proximity to a foreign country – so here we are six years later and I couldn’t be happier calling the RGV home!

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