Oven Pot Roast

An Oven Pot Roast is one of the easiest ways to prepare pot roast. It doesn't require as much attention as braising on top of the stove. However, it's not quite as "hands off" as a slow cooker.

Oven Pot Roast With Vegetables Recipe

4 to 5 lb. beef rump roast
2 Tbsp salad oil
2 Tbsp butter
1 small onion, sliced
1 clove garlic, crushed
1 tsp dried thyme leaves
1 tsp dried marjoram leaves
1 bay leaf, crumbled
8 whole black peppers
1 tsp salt
1 (10 1/2 oz.) can condensed beef broth, undiluted
12 small white onions
8 carrots, pared and halved (About 1 pound)
1 sprig parsley
3 Tbsp flour

Preheat your oven to 350 degrees.

Rinse the beef rump roast in cold water and wipe it dry with paper towels.

Add the oil and butter to a 5-quart Dutch oven or heavy kettle over medium heat. Add the roast and the onions. Brown the roast on all sides.

To the drippings, add the garlic, thyme, marjoram, bay leaf, black peppers and salt. Sauté, stirring 1/2 minute. Add the beef broth.

Bring to boiling, and then cover and bake in 350 degrees oven, turning meat once or twice and basting with liquid, for 3 hours or until meat is tender.

Add the onions, carrots and parsley the last 30 minutes of cooking time or until vegetables and meat are tender.

To Make the Gravy:

Transfer the oven pot roast and the vegetables from the Dutch oven to a warm serving platter. Keep it warm, covered loosely with foil.

Into a 2-cup measure, strain the liquid remaining in Dutch oven. If it is necessary add water to bring the measure to 2 cups.

Return the mixture to the Dutch oven. Pour 1/4 cup water into a measuring cup. Add the flour and mix with a fork until smooth. Stir the flour and water mixture into the liquid in the Dutch oven and bring to boiling, stirring constantly.

Reduce the heat and simmer 3 minutes. Taste and add salt if desired.

This Oven Pot Roast Recipe will serve 10.

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 Oven 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's 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 or Oven Pot Roast. Mail order beef is for special occasions. Your Sunday Pot Roast dinner is fine with a chuck roast from the supermarket.

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