American
Classic Pot Roast
Classic Pot Roast is American home cooking, eaten at dinner. On the plate it is the dish at the centre. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.
Ingredients
- 3 lb chuck roast
- 1.5 lb baby potatoes
- 4 carrots
- 1 onion
- 3 celery stalks
- 4 garlic cloves
- 3 cups beef broth
- 2 tbsp Worcestershire sauce
- 3 tbsp all-purpose flour
- 2 tbsp tomato paste
- 2 thyme sprigs
- 1 bay leaf
- 3 tbsp neutral oil
- 1 tsp salt
- 1/2 tsp black pepper
How to cook it
- Heat the oven to 300F. Season the roast with salt and pepper and dredge lightly in the flour.
- Sear the roast in the oil in a Dutch oven over medium-high heat until browned on all sides, about 10 minutes, then remove.
- Cook the onion, celery, and garlic in the drippings for 5 minutes, then stir in the tomato paste.
- Return the roast, add the broth, Worcestershire, thyme, and bay leaf, cover, and braise in the oven for 2.5 hours.
- Add the potatoes and carrots and braise until everything is fork-tender, about 45 minutes more.
- Rest the roast, then slice and serve with the vegetables and thickened gravy.
Serve it with
A American dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Classic Pot Roast, read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.
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The cooked vegetable
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What it is eaten with
Safe at your table
Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand, so the absences below are as deliberate as the presences. Classic Pot Roast carries gluten and fish. It is free of the remaining 8 allergens on that list.
| Allergen | In this dish | Cook this instead |
|---|---|---|
| Peanuts | No | |
| Tree nuts | No | |
| Dairy | No | |
| Gluten | Yes | Almond Vanilla Chia Pudding |
| Shellfish | No | |
| Eggs | No | |
| Soy | No | |
| Fish | Yes | Almond Vanilla Chia Pudding |
| Sesame | No | |
| Coconut | No |
These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.
What it brings to the plate
Bands, not numbers. Dinejot does not weigh anybody's food, so it says light, moderate or hearty and stops there. This dish was read and set by hand.
- Calorie band
- Hearty
- Protein
- High
- Protein quality
- Complete
- Food groups it covers
- Vegetables and Meat or fish
- How this was set
- Hand audited
When to cook it
Classic Pot Roast takes about 220 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is a fair bit of work. It is eaten at dinner. It is at its best in the fall and winter, which is when what goes into it is worth buying.
More to cook
Cooked from the same things
Other dishes built on beef, potato, carrot, and onion.
From the same kitchens
More cooking from the United States.
Does the same job on the plate
Swap any of these in when you want a meal the same shape.
Cook this with your whole family
Dinejot plans breakfast, lunch and dinner as whole plates, built around the cooking you call home and filtered for the allergies at your table.
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