The Best Pot Roast Ever!
I don’t make pot roast often, but when I do, it just makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside – perfect for cool, cozy days this time of year. And, Sundays in our house are usually slower, so those are days that I like to try new recipes – especially ones that take time and make the house smell amazing. (Also, there are few things better than the smell of a delicious hunk of meat slow roasting in the oven while watching football on TV…if you wanted to know my opinion.)
Over the years, I’ve tried lots of different pot roast recipes from various cookbooks, websites, magazines and recipe cards. Despite my attempts, I just haven’t found one that feels like a “go to” recipe. The one that everyone loves, the leftovers taste even better the next day (you know the kind) and that doesn’t have a zillion complicated steps. My life changed last Sunday.
(Side note: maybe it’s a Midwestern thing, but I feel like everyone should have a staple pot roast recipe they return to time and time again. Or, maybe I just should have been born in 1950.)
Queue the angels singing and illuminous glow because my search is over. Ina Garten’s Company Pot Roast should be in the Pot Roast Hall of Fame in my book. (For my fellow Ina groupies, you can find this recipe in her “Back to Basics” cookbook.)
Honestly, I can’t believe I didn’t start my trials with her recipe – it would have saved me (and my loved ones) a lot of pot roast heartache for sure. Ina never disappoints.
The recipe was super easy to follow and didn’t require a ton of ingredients. In fact, I already had most of them in my kitchen. I modified the sauce prep by using my immersion blender instead of transferring the sauce to a blender, so that made it even easier (and less messy). The only thing I would do differently next time, is lessen the cooking time because my oven cooks fast and hot, so the meat was a little more well-done than I think Ina intended for this recipe – blame it on user error.
It was the most flavorful, savory, succulent hunk of chuck roast I have ever made and will definitely be made time and time again in this household!
Try it. Today. You won’t regret it.
