chefkellydigby's Recipe

APPLE CIDER POT ROAST

Category: BEEF

Apple cider was sitting idle in my refrigerator, I had a chuck roast and thought, why not? My family thought it was inspired!
Serves 6-8
Ingredients
3 pounds of chuck roast
2 tablespoons oil
1 1/2 cup apple cider
1 cup beef broth
1 large sweet onion thinly slices
6 cloves of garlic
6 Yukon gold potatoes medium cut in half.
6 large carrots-cut into thirds
3 stalks of celery each cut into thirds
1/2 teaspoon apple pie spice
1 envelope of dry French onion or mushroom soup mix

Directions:
This can be made in the oven or in a crock pot.
For oven, preheat oven to 325 degrees
For crockpot-while you are browning your roast, set your crock-pot at low. You never want to add hot meat to a cold crock-pot

1.Over high heat, in a large skillet add oil and brown on all sides.
2.Place your browned roast into a baking pan and add the apple cider, beef broth and the other ingredients.
3. Cover and roast for 1-2 hours or until the meat is very tender.
FOR Crockpots:
1. Add your browned roast to the pre-heated crock pot.
2. Add the apple cider, beef broth, onions, garlic and dry soup mix.
3. Cook on LOW for 8-10 hours, cook on HIGH for 4-6 hours or until tender.
The last 2 hours add the celery, potatoes, carrots.Cook covered until the vegetables are tender.