I don’t know about you, but after the third turkey leftover meal, I am about done with turkey for a while. It’s time to change things up come December and I’ve got a special treat to kick things off. Nothing says good old American ‘stick to your ribs’ comfort good like Pot Roast! And with my recipe for Pot Roast with Mushroom Gravy, it’s a one pot meal you will be sure to keep in your Sunday dinner arsenal.
Start by clipping some bacon into a dutch oven. I am using my Pampered Chef Roc Crock Dutch Oven.
Cook bacon until crisp and set aside. Reserve the bacon fat in the pan.
I am using a 3lb. Boneless Chuck Roast for this recipe.
Use a good kosher salt in this recipe.
Spread the salt evenly on all sides of the meat. You can do this ahead of time if you like. Doing it up to 8 hours ahead of time allows the salt to really get into the meat.
Dredge all sides of the meat in flour.
Shake off the excess.
Place meat in the heated bacon grease on med/high heat.
It’s o.k. for this process to take time, you really can’t rush it. The more patience you have during this step in the process, the more flavor you will have in your dish.
Peel and cut carrots into 2″-3″ segments.
These are little red potatoes, the largest is probably 2″ in diameter.
Add carrots in over the potatoes.
Over the carrots and potatoes add in a couple stems each of rosemary and thyme.
Next, place the meat on top of the potatoes and carrots. Then spread frozen pearl onions on top of that.
Add in red wine.
Cover and place in a preheated oven at 275°F for about 3 hours.
You can use any type of domestic or portabella mushroom in this or really whichever kind you like. These white button mushrooms were on sale this week, so that’s what I used here. You want to brush them clean, no water and cut off any really blackened ends.
Quarter the mushrooms. I like quartering in this instance because I like more of a chunck to this gravy. If you like them smaller, by all means chop them up however you see fit. If you don’t happen to care for mushrooms, you can of course omit them.
Now it’s time for your reserved crispy bacon.
Melt a half a stick of butter into your pan. Remember you poured your liquid into another container for now, so your pot should look like this one.
Grab one large clove of garlic.
Slice it up pretty thinly.
Saute garlic, mushrooms and bacon in the butter.
I am using flour to thicken the gravy. If you are doing this in a gluten free mannor, swap out the flour for cornstarch.
Spread the flour over the contentts of then pan. Mix it around and cook for a minute or two.
Now add in your reserved cooking liquid.
Bring the liquid up to a boil for about one minute, then shut off and serve in a gravy boat.
Pot Roast with Mushroom Gravy
Ingredients
3lb. Chuck Roast
1 cup flour or corn flour
2 Tbs. kosher salt
Olive oil for frying.
4 medium carrot
9 small red potatoes
1 cup pearl onions
2 sprigs rosemary
2 sprigs thyme
3 slices of bacon
1-1 1/2 cups red wine
Directions:
Salt all sides of the meat. Dredge in flour and shake off ane excess. Fry up the chopped bacon, remove bacon and set aside for gravy, reserve fat in pan. While on med/high, sear all sides of beef. remove and set aside to build pot. Place potatoes in bottom of pan, then top with carrots, rosemary and thyme. Place beef on vegetables and top with pearl onions. Add in 1-1/1/2 cups of red wine.
For gravy:
1/2 stick butter
1/4 cup flour or corn starch
6 mushrooms, quartered
1 garlic clove, sliced
reserved bacon bits
1 1 1/2- 2 cups reserved liquid from roast
salt and pepper to taste
Directions:
Melt butter into the pot where the roast was made. Add in garlic, bacon and mushroom, saute. Once mushrooms are tender add in flour. Cook flour for about a minute or two while stirring. Add in reserved cooking broth. Bring to a boil for about one minute or so. Add salt and pepper to taste.
*By switching from flour to corn flour and corn starch, this recipe can easily become gluten-free.