Showing posts with label roast. Show all posts
Showing posts with label roast. Show all posts

Wednesday, 8 October 2014

Slow Cooked Italian Pot Roast



I love a great roast on a sunday, but most of the time haven't got the time to do it, so cooking my beef in the slow cooker really helped and the meat was so moist and tender too.
This dish is syn free on extra easy and there is loads of leftovers which could go great with pasta, rice or a jacket potato.


You need to make up a onion mix for the dish, it is very simple and makes the dish taste great. Don't worry about the amount of onion in it as you can't taste it in the end.

Ingredients

1 large onion sliced
8oz cremini mushrooms sliced
2 carrots roughly chopped
2lb braising steak all fat removed
300 ml beef stock
500 ml passata
3 tbsp tomato puree
1 tbsp italian seasoning

Onion Mix

8 tsp dried onion flakes
1.5 tsp dried parsley
1 tsp onion powder
1 tsp turmeric
½ tsp celery salt
½ tsp salt
¼ tsp sweetener
¼ tsp freshly ground pepper

Mix them all together.

Method

In a slow cooker, layer the onion, carrot and mushrooms on the bottom, lay the beef on top, sprinkle over the onion mix and pour over the passata and beef stock, mix in the tomato puree and Italian seasoning. Set to cook on low for 8 hrs. Break up the beef and serve covered with the sauce.







Friday, 11 October 2013

Garlic and Rosemary Pork Tenderloin



It isn't often i do a roast dinner and never on a Sunday, so i thought i'd treat my husband to a lovely midweek roast, well i guess well be having a roast more often now as it went down so well. The pork was so juicy and tender and the marinade was amazing!! This has got to be one of the best Pork dishes i've ever had!!

Oh did i forget to add it is so easy to make too, only downside is it isn't syn free but at only 3 syns on extra easy for the whole tenderloin it was so worth it!!!



Preheat oven 200c, 400f, gas mark 5

Ingredients

1 large pork tenderloin any fat removed
2 garlic cloves sliced
¼ cup light soy sauce
2 tsp mustard powder
1 tbsp honey (3 syns)
1 tbsp fresh squeezed orange juice
1 tbsp fresh chopped rosemary




Method

Put the loin on a foil covered baking tin, poke holes all over it and push in the slices of garlic, mix all the other ingredients together and pour over the pork, let it sit for at least 30 minutes, basting it with the marinade every 5 minutes.
Roast in the oven for 20 minutes, basting it half way through.
Remove from the oven and let the pork sit for 10 minutes. 
Put the remaining marinade into a pan and heat through, use a jus over the pork.

I served mine with roast potatoes, minted cabbage and roasted asparagus.