Crock Pot Roast Tips
Roast may seem like Sunday food but with your crock pot in hand you can make a delicious mid week meal from whatever type of roast you currently have sitting in your freezer. It may seem hard to pull off, but it can be quite easy. You don’t even have to defrost the roast, you can use pork, beef or even venison, it just gets easier and easier.
Cut your veggies into equal size pieces. This will make sure they all cook the same and you don’t have some that are not cooked and yet others that are total mush. You can put your potatoes on the bottom of the crock pot. You may even want to make a packet of gravy and add it over the bottom layer of potatoes. Carrots are the other veggies I usually use with a roast. I just scatter these around the edges of the roast. Onions are a must and to keep them from cooking away I just put them on the top of my roast. If you like green beans with your roast I recommend you add them during the last hour of cooking time.
You can season your roast with a variety of things. You can use a packet of onion soup mix. You can use cream of mushroom soup. You can also go ethnic choosing spices that correspond to maybe Italian or even Spanish flavors.
You can add dry spices in with your vegetables and roast, they will work just fine. If you are using fresh spices I would suggest waiting until the last hour of cooking time before you add them. Fresh herbs easily permeate the meat and will do well cooking in for such a short amount of time.
What is your cooking time going to be? It depends on a few factors. Your personal crock pot and its cooking temperature. The size of your roast. Whether it is frozen or thawed. No matter what any of these variables are you can bet on at least 6 hours to cook your roast. It may take as much as 9 if it is a large frozen roast. The more you cook roasts in your crock pot the better you will know how long it’s going to need to cook.
Because the roast has to cook so long makes it a perfect meal to cook while you are gone at work. Yes, you can cook a roast in the middle of the week. In fact, you can do it quite easily. Starting with a frozen roast will minimize the chances of overcooking your roast while you are gone. You can even put it all together in the crock the night before. Just cover the crock with plastic wrap and set it in the fridge. You can easily uncover the crock and set it in the crock pot in the morning. Then all you have to do is set it and forget it.
Eating at home is a great way to connect with your family, as well as keep them healthy. You know exactly what goes into the food you eat. You may think of roast as a Sunday meal, but with a crock pot it is now so easy you can have it any day of the week.