Yankee Pot Roast

A Yankee Pot Roast is a traditional recipe. A pot roast involves first searing the meat, then cooking it slowly in liquid for some time. For a Yankee Pot Roast, vegetables are usually added into the pot towards the end of cooking. When I was a kid, Mom often made roasts on Sundays. Sometimes the roasts were made in the oven and sometimes in a Dutch oven. However Mom prepared them, Sunday roast dinners were always delicious.

In the summertime, making a pot roast is better than an oven roast. Making a pot roast is quite easy, but it does take several hours. This recipe calls for using pearl onions, but I did not have any so I just substituted regular onions chopped in large pieces. Mom's recipe calls for 1 cup water, but you should use enough to mostly cover the meat while it cooks.

Yankee Pot Roast 

• 3-4 pound beef roast
• 2 tsp. salt
• 1/4 tsp. pepper
• 2 Tbsp. oil
• water
• 1 bay leaf
• 8-10 small whole onions
• 8 small carrots, cut in half
• 15 oz. can tomato sauce with tomato bits

Sprinkle meat with salt and pepper. Brown in hot oil in Dutch oven. Add water and bay leaf. Cover and simmer for 1 1/2 hours or until meat is tender. Remove excess fat. Return meat to pot. Add vegetables. Pour tomato sauce over meat. Simmer, covered, for 1 hour. Allow meat to stand a few minutes. Enjoy!