Just basic beef and simple ingredients, This Pot Roast is a chuck roast braised in wine until it's so tender it's falling apart and melts in your mouth-this puts the comfort in comfort food.
Estimated Time 3 hourshours30 minutesminutes
Servings 10Servings
Here's What You Need
3 ½ to 4poundchuck roast - optional-bottom round roast; see Recipe Notes
2tablespoonsvegetable oil
4wholecarrots - 1" slices
8ounceswhite mushrooms - whole or sliced in half
12wholecipollini onions - peeled but left whole
1headgarlic - sliced in half cross ways
2cupsred wine
3sprigsfresh rosemary
2wholebay leaves
to tasteKosher Salt and Ground Black Pepper
Here's What You Do
Preheat the oven to 325 degrees
Sprinkle salt and pepper liberally over the roast and set aside for about 15 minutes.
Place a dutch oven over medium high heat. Add vegetable oil and sear the meat about 5 minutes on each side until a nice crust begins too form. Remove the roast from the dutch oven and set aside.
Keeping a medium-high to high heat, saute the carrots and mushrooms until they are starting to brown-about 5 minutes. Remove from the Dutch oven and set aside.
Add the onions and garlic and saute until just starting to brown.
Deglaze the pot with a little of the wine, scraping off all the fond from the bottom. Stir well, then add the remaining wine and bring to a simmer.
Add the roast back to the dutch oven along with the rosemary and bay leaves and bring to a heavy simmer.
Cover the Dutch oven and place in the 325-degree oven.
After 1 ½ hours, add the carrots and mushrooms to the pot, stir to baste the roast and vegetables, cover the pot and return to the oven.
Roast in the oven for another hour to an hour and a half (2 ½ to 3 hours in total), checking for tenderness at about 2 ½ hours total time. The pot roast is ready when it probes tender with a fork or a wooden skewer and pulls apart easily.
Let the roast rest off the heat, remove the bay leaves and rosemary stems and serve!
Notes
This pot roast is great served with macaroni and cheese, cheese grits, mash potatoes or with any type of rice.A chuck roast is best for this recipe, but a nice change is a Bottom Round Roast. Not quite as marbled as a Chuck, but it responds well to a slow braise and provides wonderfully tender slices.If you can't find cipollini onions you can substitute just about any sweet onion or pearl onion.