If I can make this, anyone can.
This week I was honored to be interviewed by the top dog at publishing giant Rodale, Inc., Maria Rodale. (Read here.) In one of my responses I mentioned that my favorite comfort food (and the hands-down favorite of my kids) is a pot roast with a secret sauce made of ginger ale and ketchup. (I know it sounds like a bizarre combo, but you’re going to die and go to heaven when you taste it.)
Maria’s team immediately wanted the recipe, so here it goes:
1 quart ginger ale
1 32 oz. bottle ketchup
6 lbs. grass-fed organic roast (I use a chuck roast)
1 onion
2 carrots
6-8 baking potatoes
*I use organic for everything above…even the ketchup.
Mix ginger ale and ketchup together in the bottom of a very large roasting pan. Place roast in the center of the pan and spoon some of the sauce over the top. Bake at 325 degrees for 5-6 hours.
After 3 hours, throw in a handful of organic sliced carrots and cubed baking potatoes (large cubes). I leave the skin on.
Serve it on up. The leftovers are amazing and the meat (which will fall apart with a fork) can be broken apart for freezing for hot beefs.
This pot roast recipe was handed down to me by one of the great alpha women in my life Jackie Pederson.
This entry has been posted as part of Food Renegade’s Fight Back Friday.
Related:
Garden of discontents: An organic manifesto (Maria Rodale on The Kathleen Show)
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Do you cover this or leave uncovered?
Covered the entire time. A couple times throughout cooking, I might spoon more sauce over the top.
Is that too big for a crockpot?
I have made it in a crockpot, but then used a smaller roast. I seem to have better luck making it in the oven.
This sounds great! I got a 3lb roast, should a cut the recipe in 1/2 or change the cooking time?
Kathy, for a 3 lb roast I often use the same recipe and just reduce the cooking time by an hour or so.
Yes, but what about all that sugar in the Ginger ale (1 quart has 88 grams) and the ketchup (32 oz has 213 grams)? That’s about 1.6 cups of sugar
I would think 6 lbs of raw beef would easily make 8 servings which is about 1/4 cup of sugar per serving. But then if this tastes half as good as it sounds it would be very hard not to eat more then one serving!!!