How to Make Perfect Pot Roast

Pot Roast. Pot roast is a braised beef dish made by browning a roast-sized piece of beef before slow cooking the meat in a covered dish, sometimes with vegetables, in or over liquid. Pot roasts typically use the tougher cuts of beef—a chuck roast or shoulder roast—which have the most flavor. For pot roasts, and other slow cooked tough meats, fat is your friend!

Slow Cooked Balsamic Pot Roast is perfect for an easy weekday or weekend dinner! Fall apart-tender beef is slow cooked in a garlic balsamic sauce, along with potatoes and carrots to complete your meal! Making a simple, old-fashioned pot roast is an accomplishment any cook can achieve. You can have Pot Roast using 9 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Pot Roast

1. You need 3.5 - 4 lbs of Chuck roast.
2. It's 1 of yellow onion large.
3. It's 6 - 8 of carrots.
4. It's 5 -. 75 lbs of baby potatoes ..
5. It's a few sprigs of thyme fresh.
6. Prepare 1/3 cup of balsamic vinegar.
7. It's 3 tbsps of dijon mustard.
8. Prepare 3 tbsps of olive oil.
9. It's 2 - 3 cups of beef stock.

In fact, many cooks swear pot roast is even better the second day after all the flavors have time to mix and mingle. Dutch oven pot roast recipes are the ultimate comfort food. When juicy pot roast simmers in garlic, onions and veggies, everyone comes running to ask, "When can we eat?" Classic Pot Roast is an easy comfort food that is an absolute favorite. A one pot meal made easy in Remember, I said that pot roast isn't a specific cut of meat and is more the method of how you cook.

Pot Roast instructions

1. Pre-heat your oven to 300F and get your dutch oven ready.
2. Head your oil over high heat and brown your season chuck roast on all sides until a nice crust has developed - 3-5 minutes per side..
3. Remove beef, add diced onion to pan and cook until softened, 5-7 minutes..
4. Add balsamic, and reduce until it's a syrupy glaze and add dijon..
5. Toss in thyme, and return beef to pan. Roast for 2 hours covered..
6. Add carrots and potatoes and return to oven for another hour until everything is a tender mess. Serve family style..

Pot Roast - fall apart beef, tender flavour infused vegetables and potatoes smothered in a rich gravy. It's mouthwateringly good, yet simple to make, especially if you use a slow cooker. This pot roast in the crockpot is simply perfection. Comfort food is my weakness and there's nothing Crock Pot roast was always one of my dad's specialties. He'd use Porterhouse seasoning, toss in.