Sherrys Infamous 4 Hour Chuck Roast With Veggies Food

SHERRY'S INFAMOUS 4 HOUR CHUCK ROAST WITH VEGGIES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Start with olive oil in the dutch oven on medium heat. Salt and pepper both sides of meat. Once oil starts to ribbon, sear meat on both sides-about 3-4 minutes each side and remove to a plate to rest. In same pot, cook carrots over medium heat until they begin to brown and are just fork tender. Remove carrots to bowl. Replace meat to pot and cover with cold water-just enough to cover the top. Add bullion, rosemary, and bay leaf and cover. Place in 350 degree oven for 3 hours. Remove from oven and add all veggies to the pot with the meat. Return pot to oven for remaining hour or until potatoes are cooked completely. Remove from oven and take lid off. Remove bay leaf.
• Most of the time I take the meat and veggies out to a bowl and make a gravy with the juice. (4 tablespoons water to 4 tablespoons flour-whisk until no lumps and add to juices over meduim flame until it thickens. Add salt and Pepper to taste.).
• Serve with crusty bread.

GRILLED CHUCK ROAST WITH VEGETABLES.

Steps:

• Pop tab of tomato juice, add through opening brown sugar, celery salt, garlic powder, pepper, and salt--shake it up.
• Pierce roast several times and put into ziplock bag.
• Pour tomato juice marinade over beef chuck roast.
• Refrigerate for at least 5 hours.
• Preheat grill for 10 minutes if it is a gas grill, or if it is a charcoal grill try to get coals to MEDIUM HIGH fire.
• Discard marinade from roast.
• Grill roast at MEDIUM HIGH directly on grate with hood down until well seared, about 20 minutes.
• Line foil pan with enough foil so that later you can SEAL it.
• In small bowl, mix beef broth, thyme, and salt.
• Place seared meat, veggies, and garlic in pan; pour broth mixture over all.
• SEAL with foil, grill for about 75 minutes-hood down.
• Remove roast, let rest for 10 minutes, and then slice meat and serve with veggies.

SAVORY CHUCK ROAST

Steps:

• Cut 8-10 slits in roast, sprinkle with vinegar and garlic salt then dredge in flour.
• Brown roast on all sides in hot oil.
• Transfer to baking pan or slow cooker.
• Stir together soup mix, sherry and coffee.
• Pour over roast.
• Add mushrooms.
• Bake at 350 for 3 hours.

MOM'S CHUCK ROAST - MY FAVORITE!

Steps:

• Cut off the vast majority of the fat from the (NOT previously frozen) roast. For me, this usually results in maybe 4-5 variously sized pieces of usable meat culled from one roast.
• Place a layer of oil (to coat bottom) in a cast iron skillet on the stove over medium-high and while that's heating ----.
• ---- poke holes part way through each piece of roast meat with a knife tip a few times on each side. This simply provides more surface area for the flavor to cling to. Rub all meat surfaces well - first with Kitchen Bouquet, then with the chopped garlic.
• When the skillet is hot, add meat and sear on all sides until well-browned, about 2 minutes on each side or whatever achieves the nicest deep brown.
• Add water to almost cover roast (maybe 1/4" below top of roast) - somewhere between 1 and 2 cups.
• Continue to heat until water just starts to bubble, then reduce heat to low or simmering, cover and braise for 2 to 2 1/2 hours. Braising cuts down the connective tissue in tougher cuts of meat.
• At the end of cooking time when meat is tender, remove lid and boil water and juices in skillet until volume reduces by almost half.
• Turn off heat and move all of the meat pieces to a plate. Cover with foil to keep warm.
• Remove oil from juices with a gravy separator. This is VERY important to making successful gravy. Doing it by hand with a spoon or bulb baster is a tedious job, so I just ordered a Trudeau gravy/fat separator to make life easier. ;).
• Return about 1 cup of the separated water/juice/gravy fluid to the skillet heated to medium-high.
• Mix the Wondra with just enough water to make a thinnish paste. While whisking FEVERISHLY, ~slowly~ pour the thin paste into the sauce to combine and prevent lumps from forming. Wondra flour in the tall blue can works Wondra-fully and is made for this purpose. (Hey, any opportunity I have for making stupid puns shall not go wasted.).
• For the next few minutes, continue whisking as though your very life depended on it, even after the Wondra/flour has incorporated into the sauce. Then, still whisking, slowly add the milk.
• When gravy is heated through, it's ready to pour over hunks of roast beast and boiled tater slices! Season *after* tasting as it may already be just fine. However, I highly recommend some finishing salt to bump that puppy right over the edge of heaven! Saltistry's "herb grey" is absolute bliss.
• Oh, and for leftovers, might I suggest a beef version of Breakfast Pork Hash (Recipe #170376?) :).