Beef pot roast
Beef pot roast recipe in the beef category
Recipe ingredients:
- 3 ounces butter
- 4 pounds piece of corner topside
- 3 large carrots
- 3 medium parsnips
- 8 small onions
- 4 medium potatoes
- 1/3 cup plain flour
- 5 cups water
- 3 beef stock cubes
- 3 tablespoons tomato paste
- 1 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce
- Pinch mixed herbs
- 1 teaspoon granulated sugar
- Salt and pepper
Recipe method:
- Heat 1 ounce butter in large pan, add meat, brown well on all sides. Remove meat from pan.
- Add to pan scraped carrots cut into large pieces, scraped parsnips cut into large pieces, peeled whole onions and peeled potatoes cut in half.
- Saute gently until vegetables are golden brown. Remove from pan.
- Melt remaining butter in pan.
- Add flour, stir over high heat until flour is dark golden brown.
- Remove pan from heat, add water, stir until combined.
- Add crumbled stock cubes, tomato paste, Worcestershire sauce, mixed herbs, salt, pepper and sugar.
- Return pan to heat, stir until sauce boils and thickens.
- Put meat into large saucepan. Pour sauce over. Bring to boil.
- Reduce heat, cover, simmer gently 2 hours.
- Add prepared vegetables, simmer further 30 minutes or until vegetables are tender.
- Keep meat and vegetables warm on serving plate.
- Bring sauce in pan to boil.
- Boil, uncovered 10 minutes or until of good gravy consistency.