Fall Cider Beef Pot Roast with Sweet Potatoes
If you're in search of great fall food recipes for weeknight meals, this Fall Cider Beef Pot Roast with Sweet Potatoes is packed with autumn flavors. Apple cider, maple syrup, and sweet potatoes blend with savory beef broth, onions, and garlic for a flavor sensation. This one-pot meal is robust, hearty, and so flavorful. Usher in fall with this delicious slow cooker pot roast recipe, and make it again and again throughout the season.
Slow Cooker Time HIGH5 hr
Ingredients
- 1 beef shoulder roast or beef chuck pot roast, boneless (2.5 to 3.5 pounds)
- 2 to 4 tablespoons olive oil
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 teaspoon pepper
- 1 large white onion, chopped
- 2 teaspoons thyme crushed thyme leaves
- 2 cups ready-to-serve beef broth
- 1 1/2 cup apple cider
- 1 1/2 pound sweet potatoes, peeled, cut crosswise into 1- to 1-1/2-inch pieces
- 5 cloves garlic, chopped finely
- 1 tablespoon maple syrup
- 1/3 cup chunky applesauce
- 2 to 3 tablespoons cornstarch, dissolved in 2 to 3 tablespoons of water
Instructions
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Chop onion into large chunks and place in the bottom of your crock.
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Chop garlic, finely, and sprinkle over the onions in your crock.
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Chop sweet potatoes and place over onion and garlic mixture in the crock.
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In a large bowl, combine thyme, beef broth, apple cider, applesauce, and maple syrup. Stir thoroughly.
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Pat raw beef cut dry with a paper towel and rub with salt and pepper mixture.
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Heat a saucepan with olive oil and brown the beef cut in your saucepan until brown on both sides.
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Place browned beef over onion, garlic, and sweet potatoes in your crock.
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Pour your sauce mixture over the beef, potatoes, onion and garlic.
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At three hour mark, uncover your slow cooker and cook for another 30 minutes.
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At three and a half hour mark, mix together corn starch and water thoroughly in a separate bowl.
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Remove the roast from your slow cooker and set aside. Pour in cornstarch mixture and stir the liquid gravy in the crock. Return the roast to the slow cooker.
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Continue cooking the roast uncovered for another half hour to hour and a half, until desired gravy thickness is reached. Add more cornstarch mixture as desired.
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When roast is done cooking, carve into slices and serve. Pour gravy on top for serving.
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Serve with sweet potatoes from the crock.
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SissieSass
Nov 28, 2017
Do you need to use applesauce and apple cider vinegar in this recipe to get it to turn out right, or can you just use one or the other in the dish? I like that you chose sweet potatoes instead of white potatoes. I want to try them in a dish to see how they taste, so I think this is the one I will use to figure it out and see if I like them or not.
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