The ultimate in easy slow-cooked comfort food, this Paleo Pot Roast will be sure to please your whole family!
Preheat your oven to 325F
Use a large oven proof pan with a lid, such as a Dutch Oven. Add a little oil over a medium/high heat and sear each side of the chuck roast.
Briefly remove the meat to a plate, and add the prepared vegetables, garlic and herbs to the base of the pan, and add the meat back on top, then pour over the beef broth or water, season with salt and pepper.
It will take between 2.5 - 3.5hrs to cook this in the oven, depending on the size of your meat and the oven temperature.
Brown the meat on both sides in a large Cast Iron skillet with a little olive oil.
Add the prepared vegetables, garlic and herbs to the Slow Cooker, and put the meat on top, then pour over the beef broth or water, season with salt and pepper.
Cook the meat on the HIGH setting for 3 - 5 hrs, or on the LOW setting for 6-8hrs, or until done.
HOW TO MAKE THE PALEO BEEF GRAVY
After the meat is cooked, pour off the broth from the pot roast and put it into a pan on the stove top.
Add two tablespoons of arrowroot or tapioca starch into a small bowl and mix with two tablespoons cold water.
Add half the arrowroot liquid mixture to the pan with the gravy while it's off the heat and stir it in.
Then cook it on a medium heat until the gravy is thickened. if you need it thicker add some more of the starch mixture and proceed as before.
If you are using arrowroot, it will thicken it just like cornstarch will, but I have found it can sometimes create lumps in the gravy. If that happens simply pour the gravy back through a sieve, and serve.
PALEO BEEF BROTH - this is hard to find in regular grocery stores, for this recipe you can use water but the gravy will not be quite as rich. I like Kettle and Fire Bone Broth from Amazon.
SLOW COOKERS - One last thing, I have found that you can easily overcook a pot roast even in a slow cooker. What typically happens is that the meat can become dry, stringy, and lose flavor as all the flavor goes from the meat into the liquid, so you end up with pretty tasteless meat and a fabulous gravy. Some slow cooker run hotter than others so don't over cook it!
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