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Easy Roast Beef
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Easy Roast Beef

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My mother's roast beef recipe has always been a family favorite because it puts a relatively inexpensive cut of meat on the table, tender and tasty, with very little preparation or cooking attention.

"This extremely easy and delicious recipe works equally well with other inexpensive cuts of beef like the Eye of Round Roast, Bottom Round or Rump Roast (pictured), and the Top or Inside Round Roast. For even richer and more savory pan juices, and eventually gravy, try substituting Beef Broth or Beef Consomme for the water. To make a complete meal, when you add the water, also add your favorite vegetables (onions, potatoes, carrots, celery, mushrooms, etc.) and once cooked, simply thicken the pan juices and your meal is finished."

- sgrishka

Cuisine: AmericanMain Ingredient: Beef

(4.4, 49) 91% would make again (reviews)

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Ingredients

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Servings          
Original recipe makes 6 Servings
4 poundChuck or shoulder beef roast
3/4 cupFlour; (more or less)
Salt; to taste
Pepper; to taste
Garlic powder; to taste (optional)
8 pattiesButter
1 cupWater

Easy Roast Beef Preparation

Dredge a 4 pound chuck or shoulder beef roast with a mixture of flour, salt and pepper. Place 3 or 4 patties of butter in bottom of roaster pan. Put meat in pan and put 3 or 4 patties of butter on top of meat. Bake at 350 degrees F for one hour, uncovered. Add 1 cup of water, cover and bake for 2 more hours at 250 degrees F.

-- Notes --

This recipe works equally well with other inexpensive cuts of beef like the Eye of Round Roast, Bottom Round or Rump Roast, and the Top or inside Round Roast.

For even richer and more savory pan juices, and eventually gravy, try substituting Beef Broth or Beef Consomme for the water.

For a complete meal, add your favorite vegetables (onions, potatoes, carrots, celery, mushroom, etc.) and once cooked, simply season and thicken the pan juices, and your meal is finished.

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Calories Per Serving: 825
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it should be called pot roast, not roast beef... i will definitely look for a different recipe
3 weeks, 4 days, 20 hours, 9 minutes ago
Loved this I was apprehensive to make this at first but smelling it cook has my mouth watering and then finally getting to eat this it is by far one of my favorite dishes ever
2 months, 5 days, 12 hours, 40 minutes ago
3 months, 2 weeks, 4 days, 22 hours, 24 minutes ago
I love how easy it is and it's great.
3 months, 3 weeks, 23 hours, 27 minutes ago
As this recipe demonstrates, sometimes simpler is better. Very simple and amazingly good.
4 months, 6 days, 15 hours, 39 minutes ago
Easy and tastes great
4 months, 2 weeks, 1 days, 14 hours, 45 minutes ago
I have baked the roast @ 350. For one hour it is done! So I just bake for one hour &.water/beef broth if I want make gravy. Turns out greateverytime!
6 months, 2 weeks, 4 days, 21 hours, 13 minutes ago
I thought I made a great beef roast but this was fantastic! I did make a few adjustments. I used fresh garlic which I put thin slices into roast by inserting paring knife and put salt and pepper directly onto roast instead of in flour. I
7 months, 17 hours, 30 minutes ago
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7 months, 3 weeks, 6 days, 7 hours, 10 minutes ago
Made this with celery, mushrooms, and carrots and even my kids loved it! The meat was so tender it pulled apart like nothing.
9 months, 1 days, 16 hours, 59 minutes ago
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10 months, 3 weeks, 5 hours, 52 minutes ago
10 months, 3 weeks, 3 days, 7 hours, 26 minutes ago
I just made this for dinner yesterday and everyone loved it. It is a great recipe or method for preparing the tougher roast that we usually have and really enjoy.
1 years, 5 months, 2 days, 47 minutes ago
I now use this recipe every time! I do add msg and go heavy on all the spice. It's so good and easy
1 years, 5 months, 4 weeks, 21 hours, 10 minutes ago
1 years, 8 months, 2 weeks, 4 days, 3 hours, 25 minutes ago

Tags

  1. Roast
  2. Dinner
  3. American
  4. Easy
  5. Beef
  6. flour
  7. butter
  8. garlic powder
  9. Main Dish
  10. Winter
  11. Comforting

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