![]() ![]() Place the roast on top of the vegetables.Ĥ. I took them off and my roast kinda fell apart. Note: if your roast had butcher strings around it, leave them on. Remove your roast from the marinade bag (save the marinade juices), and brown each side of it for a minute or so in a hot oiled frying pan: Chop the carrots and onion and place in your crockpot. Place the roast in the bag and marinate for 24 hours in the ‘fridge, turning occasionally.Ģ. Combine the wine, red wine vinegar, mustard, cloves, garlic, and salt & pepper in a gallon-size plastic bag. I honestly can’t really tell the difference in flavor between buffalo and beef, but we eat grass-fed beef so that might be part of the reason.ġ buffalo (or beef) roast (round rump roast), 2-3 lbs.Ī pinch of ground cloves or 3-4 whole clovesĪbout 1 c. So if you buy buffalo meat you know the animal was at least allowed to live the life that it evolved to live. Buffalo aren’t quite as domesticated as cows, so they can’t survive in a feedlot situation - they must be raised on grass, with some room to roam. We split 1/4 of a buffalo with Adam’s brother about a month ago, so we have a freezer full of bison meat. I don’t even know what Sauerbraten means, but I can now tell you that it’s basically a roast. Serve slices of roast with gravy over noodles or mashed potatoes.I’m sorta obsessed with German food lately, can you tell? I don’t really know why. Meanwhile stir gingersnap crumbs into liquid and turn crockpot to high while roast rests. Cook on low 8-10 hours.īefore serving, remove roast from crockpot and let rest 10 minutes before slicing. Add this mixture to skillet and boil 1 minute, stirring brown bits off the bottom of the pan. Strain marinade and reserve 1 cup of liquid. Pour out fat from skillet, and put back on stovetop. Remove roast from marinade (do not discard yet) and pat dry. To cook, heat oil or bacon fat in a large skillet over medium-high heat. (If you freeze this for a freezer kit, make sure to have beef stock on hand in the pantry and freeze ground gingersnap cookie crumbs in a small ziptop bag.) Turn the roast occasionally if in the fridge. Cover and let marinade in the fridge or freezer for at least 3 days. Pour marinade mixture over beef roast in a large covered bowl or ziptop bag. Bring to a boil, reduce heat and simmer 5 minutes. Make slices at about a 45 degree angle to the grain for the right balance of tenderness and cohesion.ģ/4 cup gingersnap crumbs (from about 1 cup gingersnap cookies)Ĭombine first 8 ingredients in a small saucepan. ![]() Don't cut with the grain or you'll have tough slices of beef. Don't cut directly across the grain, or you'll wind up with shredded beef. Look for the direction of the grain of the meat.if you see long ridges in the meat, that's the "grain". ![]() To slice a roast well, let it rest several minutes before touching it. Now if you don't brown the roast, it's not like you'll end up with a roast that looks like a grape popsicle at the end of the day, but it won't be quite as roast-colored as usual either. Browning, well, makes it brown instead of purple. Reason being that when you take the roast out of its 3-day booze bath, it will be purple. ![]() In this recipe though, I think you need to brown at least the top side of the roast. It completely detracts from the no-fuss appeal of using the crockpot. You can also leave the beef and marinade in the fridge until you cook it, if you have the space.Ī word on browning meat before putting it in the crockpot. The marinade recipe I use is about 2 parts wine to 1 part vinegar, and I'd be comfortable freezing it for up to 3 weeks before I'd start to worry about the acid level of the marinade making mush out of my roast. It does need to marinate for at least 3 days, if not longer, so making this up and freezing it works well. Sauerbraten can be made with a variety of beef roast cuts.I used a rump roast, but eye round, chuck pot roast, bone-in, bone-out, it all works. A beef roast that's been marinated in spiced red wine, then braised in the crockpot with gravy thickened with gingersnaps.that so says "holiday season" to me! My recipe is a mash-up of a recipe from a 1975 cookbook called The Crockery Pot Cookbook by Lou Seibert Pappas and the Frugal Gourmet's Immigrant Ancestors recipe. ![]()
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