You know how much I love my slow cooker. I'm becoming increasingly confident in my ability to convert oven recipes to slow cooker recipes and decided to do so with this Paleo Pot Roast recipe from Paleo Porn. What a blog title. I wanted to try this as it used some interesting ingredients and I wanted something different form the usual pot roast.
I gathered my ingredients, and got to work.
I followed the recipe instructions up until it calls for you to put it in the oven. I browned the roast on all sides and then removed it from the pan.
Instead of water, I used broth to deglaze the pan. I added the carrots, broth, grapefruit juice and salt. As I sat down to blog this, I realized that I made a mistake. I didn't brown the onions before putting them into the slow cooker. Oops.
I added the carrots and liquid to the slow cooker crock over a bed of sliced onions and added the dried dill. I could not find fresh dill at any of the grocery stores I frequent when I shopped for this recipe as odd as that sounds. I used 1/8 cup of dried dill. It's not a perfect 1:3 ratio, but it's all the dill I had on hand. It looked like a sufficient amount.
I topped the vegetables with the browned roast, put the lid on and set the slow cooker on low for 8 hours.
Here is my roast after 8 hours on low.
Here is my plate.
Accessibility & Cost of Ingredients: You should be able to find everything you need for this recipe at your "big box" grocery store. I had the darnedest time finding fresh dill when I made this dish. I gave up and used dried after going to a few stores and not finding it. I'd never had that problem before.
Preparation & Cooking Time: I cooked this on low for 8 hours. I cannot believe I forgot to write down how long it took me to get this roast into the slow cooker. It couldn't have been more than 15-20 minutes.
Clean Up: Everything I used went into the dishwasher.
The Paleo Review: Thumbs Up! The roast was cooked perfectly. Flavor-wise, despite the different ingredients used, the flavor was much of a regular pot roast recipe. That is perfectly fine, but I was a little disappointed the flavor wasn't a little more special. I might make this again with fresh dill and see if there is a huge difference. Next time, I'll brown the onions as well. That will probably add a little more sweetness to the dish. Despite my mistakes, this recipe produced a good roast. Give it a try!
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