Italian Style Pot Roast

The 3 recipes here demonstrate how versatile pot roast can be.

Italian Style Pot Roast is a basic pot roast with Italian seasons.

By varying the seasonings you can make a pot roast of any ethnicity.

Each of these recipes uses a different cooking method and features a different cut of beef. The cooking methods are interchangeable as are the beef cuts.

Italian Style Pot Roast

1 (3 lb.) beef chuck pot roast, 2-inches thick
1 Tbsp. Worcestershire sauce
1 tsp. instant bouillon granules
1/2 tsp. Sugar
1 clove garlic, minced
1/2 tsp. dried oregano, crushed
3 medium potatoes, peeled and cut 1-inch cubes
3 medium carrots, cut into julienne strips
2 medium onions, quartered
1 (8 oz.) can tomato sauce
1/4 c. flour
1 (4 oz.) can mushrooms, drained

Trim the beef chuck roast of any excess fat.

In a 3 quart casserole stir in the Worcestershire sauce, bouillon, sugar, oregano, garlic, 1/2 cup water, 1/2 teaspoon salt and 1/4 teaspoon pepper.

Add the beef chuck pot roast. Cover and cook on High for 5 minutes or until the liquid boils. Reduce the heat to a simmer and simmer for about 1 1/2 hours.

Add the onion, potatoes, carrots and celery. Cover and cook for another hour or until Italian Style Pot Roast and the vegetables are tender. Spoon the liquid mixture over pot roast once or twice during cooking. Serves 8.

Easy Italian Style Pot Roast Recipe

3 lb. beef brisket
1 (8 oz.) bottle Italian salad dressing

Marinate the beef brisket in the dressing overnight in a large (12 x 18-inch) cooking bag.

Preheat your oven to 325 degrees.

Puncture 6 holes in the bag and place it in a 13 x 9 x 2-inch baking pan. Roast at 325 degrees for 2 hours. Serves 4.

Crock-pot Italian Style Pot Roast Recipe

4 to 6 lb. beef rump roast
4 tsp. olive oil
1/2 pt. red wine
1 large can plum tomatoes
5 cloves garlic
2 large onions
Parsley flakes
2 whole bay leaves
2 tsp. Salt
1 tsp. Pepper
1 tsp. Basil
1/2 tsp. Thyme

Brown the beef rump roast in olive oil. After the rump roast is browned, add all of the other ingredients at one time (sprinkle parsley flakes) and simmer 4 1/2 hours or longer.

The longer it's cooked the more tender the beef is. Make sure the beef is covered during the cooking process.

This recipe will work in an electric frying pan, top of the stove or in the oven. In a crock-pot cook the Italian Style Pot Roast on low 10 to 12 hours (high 5 to 6 hours).

Buy Beef Online

Now why would anyone want to buy beef online? Beef is readily available at the supermarket. There’s only one answer: Quality! In order to compete with the supermarkets mail order beef has to be the best.

(Don’t buy beef online for Italian Style Pot Roast. Or for that matter any old fashioned pot roast dinner. Supermarket beef is fine.)

In fact there are some types of gourmet beef that you can’t get except online. Kobe beef, grass fed beef, dry aged beef? I’ll bet you’ve never seen those in the supermarket. The only way to get them is to buy beef online.

Kobe Beef

Kobe beef is from the Japanese Waygu cattle. The marbling, flavor and tenderness of Kobe beef puts it grades above USDA prime beef. But you can only get Kobe beef when you buy beef online.

Grass Fed Beef

Grass is the natural food of the beef animal. And some people feel the flavor of grass fed beef is far superior to feed lot beef. This is gourmet beef at it’s best. And once again you can only get grass fed beef when you buy beef online.

Dry Aged Beef

Dry aged beef is how beef was done in the good old days. The beef is hung in a controlled temperature and humidity environment and allowed to age for almost a month.

Why can’t you get dry aged beef at the super market? Expense! Dry aged beef loses approximately 1/3 of it weight during the drying process. Today’s wet aged beef brings more profit to the processor.

Guess what? You can only get dry aged beef when you buy beef online! Dry aged beef is truly gourmet beef.

Old Fashioned Pot Roast

Certainly you wouldn’t want to buy beef online for old fashioned pot roast. Mail order beef is for special occasions. Your Sunday pot roast dinner is fine with a chuck roast from the supermarket.

Italian Style Pot Roast is fine with supermarket beef also. As any old fashioned pot roast dinner would be.

On that special occasion, such as boss for dinner night, is when this beef will make an impression. My thoughts would be running along the line of a Prime rib dinner with sure enough USDA prime beef. You can only get USDA prime beef when you buy beef online. USDA choice is the best you can get at the supermarket.

Enjoy Italian Style Pot Roast with your family with beef from the grocery. But when you really want to impress buy beef online.

Enjoy the Italian Style Pot Roast.