Rachael Ray: Weeknight Pot Roast
Who doesn’t love pot roast? Thankfully Rachael Ray has this great recipe, and unfortunately it isn’t my grandma’s, who makes the best pot roast in town, but for 1 1/2 hours, it isn’t bad. The only think I didn’t like about this pot roast was it wasn’t real tender, fall apart roast, but it was tasty. I’m sure becuase I only cooked mine for about 1 hour, which you’re actually instructed to cook it less then an hour, but I changed things up a bit or a lot. I was also curious about parsnips, they look like carrots but are white. I think they might be a little sweeter, they were not gross, so I guess that’s a good thing. This will take a little more then 30 minutes, but since it’s pretty easy, I’ll let it slide!
Recipe: Weeknight Pot Roast
Weeknight Pot Roast
Cookbook: Big Orange Book
Total Time: 1 1/2 hours…give or take
Husband Says: “It is good, I like the juice in the pot roast, the gravy is good.”
Notes: Well I didn’t use London Broil, because I couldn’t find it. So I picked a 2 lb. sirloin roast, and it was good. What I did is cut the veggies, I browned both sides of the roast in a cast iron pan, then dumped all the veggies and herbs in. I added 4 cups of beef stock and let it cook on the stove for an hour. It might have needed more water or liquid. Then I mixed up some butter and mushrooms (in a sauce pot), added a little bit of flour and let it cook out. I added some worchestershire sauce and some beef stock to make a gravy. I wanted to make this all separately because I’m not a huge gravy or mushroom fan. The husband loves both, so it worked out well for us!
Ingredients
brown roast on each side
add veggies, beef stock and herbs
gravy ingredients
melt butter and add mushrooms
add flour
add beef stock
veggies cooked
gravy is ready
let the roast rest and cut
A nice recpe idea you have here. I am always looking for more ideas to keep the kids entertained with and this one might just do the trick so thank you for sharing it.