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Ella Ciliberto's Pot Roast

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Cook Time 3 hours
Ingredients Equipment Method

Ingredients
  

  • 3-5 lbs bottom or top round
  • 3 onions
  • 1 fennel bulb
  • salt, to taste
  • pepper, to taste
  • 2 packets onion dip mix
  • 1-2 cups beef broth
  • corn startch
  • water
  • potatoes
  • carrots
  • turnips

Equipment

  • Grandma Segreto's pot (but your pot will do)

Method
 

  1. Salt and pepper beef.
  2. Brown the beef in hot oil and remove from pot.
  3. Add more oil and cook onion and fennel until slightly caramelized.
  4. Re-add beef.
  5. Put onions and fennel all around beef.
  6. Add beef broth (don't cover pot).
  7. Add fennel fronds.
  8. Cook for two hours.
  9. Add vegetables.
  10. Cook another 40 minutes.
  11. Remove vegetables and meat.
  12. Add corn starch and water to thicken the remaining liquid.
  13. Pour thickened sauce onto mean and vegetables and serve.