Its not so often that I post “main dish” types of recipes on here. Actually, it is very rare! But, tonight I must!
Dinner this evening at our house was scheduled for pot roast. Usually that would include using a lipton’s beefy onion soup mix. Which, when I set out to put my roast into my pot early this afternoon, it was nowhere to be found. So, I stood there with all my ingredients on the counter, except my seasonings and thought.
What do I do now?
Well,this is what I did. I was spontaneous, which that is NOT a word I would ever use to describe myself in the kitchen. But, this turned out so totally different than normal, with no recipe. In fact, it was so delicious that I may not make the old pot roast ever again.
Accident Pot Roast
Ingredients:
Beef – 3lbs, any cut good for roasting slow in the oven.
1/2 jar of chili sauce
bag of carrots, peeled and cut into chunks
one large onion, cut in chunks
3 or 4 cups of beef broth
2 tbsp of diced garlic
salt and pepper to taste
Instructions:
I put a few tablespoons of olive oil in the bottom of my dutch oven over medium high heat on the stove – when it was hot, I added the garlic and onion in the pan and let them cook for a minute or two. Then I added the beef and let it brown on the bottom and top. I lowered the heat to simmer and added the chili sauce, beef broth and carrots. I let it simmer lightly on the stovetop for about 30 minutes. Then, I put it in the oven at 275, that’s right really low, and I let it cook in there for about 4.5 hours or so.
The meat was super tender, it just fell apart in the pot- and the flavor was DELICIOUS! I’d offer to give you a taste test, but there’s not much left! If you make it sometime soon, I hope you enjoy it as much we did!
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