When beef roasts go on sale I always make sure to pick one up to make this delicious roast. It’s incredibly simple, allergy friendly, and sure to please your family.
This recipe takes a little bit of for-thought as it takes a few hours to roast, but it’s worth it. As it cooks, it makes a lovely gravy that you can pour on some mashed potatoes when you serve up dinner.
Saucy Roast Beef
Yield – 8 servings
Preparation Time – 15 minutes
Cooking Time – 4 hours
Ingredients
- 4lb beef roast, whatever cut is on sale is fine
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- 3/4 water
- 1 packet Zatarain’s Cajun Brown Gravy Mix
- 1 packet Italian Dressing Mix
- 1/2 teaspoon garlic powder
- 1/2 teaspoon onion powder
- 1/4 teaspoon pepper
- 2 teaspoons parsley
Directions
- Preheat your oven to 325F.
- In a dutch oven, heat up the olive oil over medium high heat.
- Sear the roast on all sides until browned.
- Fill a measuring cup with the water and then add in all of the packets and spices. Mix it well.
- Pour water mixture over the top of the roast.
- Pop the roast in the oven for 4-6 hours. You’ll know it’s done when it simply falls apart at the touch of a fork. If it hasn’t made it to that point, roast it a little longer and check again.
You could also, if you need to, put all of the ingredients in a crock pot in the morning and let it cook all day on low. Pop some potatoes in there as well and you’ll have most of a dinner when you get home from work.
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I can’t save the recipe to ziplist! I get the “gnarly 404″ page
I tried this in both Chrome and Firefox.
I can’t find Cajun brown gravy anywhere. Do you know if I can just add creole seasoning or something like that to my brown gravy mix?