Beer Braised Chuck Roast with Bacon

This one-pot meal will definitely make whoever eats it think you've been cooking all day.  It makes your house smell so good.  And the bold flavors will definitely make you go back for seconds.  You can use pork or beef in this recipe and there both delicious.  Ingredients: Beef Chuck Roast, 8 oz. of applewood smoked bacon, 6 garlic cloves, 1 large vidalia/sweet onion,  red potatoes, broccoli and carrots, beef bouillon cubes, can of Coors beer, water, salt, pepper, garlic powder and  dried sage

Pre-heat your oven to 325 degrees. Then start off by frying the bacon till crisp.  Take the bacon out and drain on a paper towel.  Season the meat with salt, pepper and garlic powder.  Then add the meat to the pan with the bacon

grease in it. 

Brown meat on high heat on both sides.  Then take the roast out and  put into a large roasting pan.  Sprinkle the dried sage on the roast. I use my roaster that has a lid. If you don't have a lid then put tin foil tightly over the top of the pan you use.  (Picture of the roasting pan below.)

Add the onions and garlic to the

skillet and saute about 4 min. or

 until almost tender. Then take the
onion and garlic out and add to the roasting pan on top and around your roast.

Once everything is out of the pan then add once can of beer.  I like Coors.  But you can use any flavor beer you prefer.  Usually Dark beer is used in this recipe.  But I've found Coors is good.  Reduce the beer to about half stirring occasionally.  Make sure your scrape all the goodies off the bottom of the pan.  Then add 2-3 beef bouillon cubes and stir until dissolved.  Poor the liquid over the roast and onions.  Then add enough water to come about midway up the roast.  (if you have a 2 in roast then you should have 1 in of water.)  Bake for 1hr and 20 min.

 Then once the roast has cooked for the 1 hour and 20 minutes.  Add your potatoes and veggies. Add potatoes first putting them around the outside of the roast down in the juicy deliciousness. (make sure there all close to the same size to ensure even cooking. I usually add carrots because it adds a slight sweet taste to everything.  And I had a broccoli stalk that needed to be used so I added those also.  You could add any veggie you wanted really. Green beans, corn, asparagus, celery...etc. I think the carrots are best!  My mom always made hers with carrots.  Yumm!

Sprinkle salt and Pepper over your potatoes and veggie. Crumble your bacon you cooked early and sprinkle on top of everything.  Bake for 1 hour or until potatoes are fork tender. 

Then Ooh La La!  You can just dig into this or you can split everything up in separate dishes.  (potatoes, veggies and meat.)  Try it this way using a pork shoulder roast.  It's just as delicious!

Add a salad and some butter bread and you have a cozy comforting meal!