Pot Roast with Sour Cream Gravy
Blue Ribbon Recipe
Now this a hearty meal! But for as satisfying as it is, the vegetables help keep an air of lightness.
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Ingredients
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2 Tbspflour
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1 tspsalt
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1/4 tsppepper
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2 1/2 lbbeef chuck pot roast
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1 Tbspshortening
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1/4 cwater
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1 Tbspvinegar
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1 tspdill weed
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5 smallpotatoes, pared
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5carrots, quartered
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1/2 tspsalt
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1 lbzucchini, quartered
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1/2 tspsalt
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1 Tbspflour
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·water
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·salt and pepper
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1 csour cream
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1 tspdill
How to Make Pot Roast with Sour Cream Gravy
- Mix flour, 1 teaspoon salt and pepper; coat meat with flour mixture.
- Melt shortening in large skillet or dutch oven; brown meat.
- Add water and vinegar. Sprinkle dill weed over meat.
- Cover tightly and simmer about 3 hours or until meat is tender.
- One hour before end of cooking time, add potatoes and carrots; season with 1/2 teaspoon salt.
- Twenty minutes before end of cooking time, add zucchini; season with 1/2 teaspoon salt.
- Serve with sour cream gravy.
- Sour Cream Gravy: Place meat and vegetables on warm platter.
- Pour drippings from pan into bowl, leaving brown particles in pan.
- Return 1 teaspoon drippings to pan. Blend in 1 tablespoon flour.
- Cook over low heat, stirring until mixture is smooth and bubbly. Remove from heat.
- Measure drippings and add water to measure 1 cup liquid.
- Stir in flour mixture. Heat to boiling, stirring constantly.
- Boil and stir one minute. Season with salt and pepper.
- Stir in one cup dairy sour cream and 1 teaspoon dill weed; heat through.