Tough Pot Roast
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Tough Pot Roast
My husband made a pot roast yesterday for dinner. The meat cooked longer than it should and now it's tough. I'm not a big beef eater, but my husband loves beef and is really disappointed with how the roast turned out. Does anyone know of a trick to "tenderize" the roast?
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ok now that you have an already tough pot roast, you can slice it very thin and simmer it in gravy, or if you have a meat grinder, grind the pot roast up along with some onions and cooled baked potatoes. This makes what they call hash. Then you mix all together and fry it up. In the future make roasts in crock pots, makes them very tender.
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One of the recipes my Granny used for a lean leftover roast (marbling makes a tenderer roast) was to slice the cold beef into about 1/4 inch slices. She would then dip the slices in beaten egg and then into bread crumbs to bread. She would then fry the slices just until the crumbs were golden. It was a great way to fix another nice supper meat out of leftovers.
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I was always told that the meat would be tender by cooking at low temp for longer periods of time - sometimes you just get a piece of shoe leather no matter what - so perhaps as the others suggested just slice it thin and make the best of it. Also, the more fat in the meat usually the more tender it will be - like I said - sometimes it just ends up leather no matter what you do.
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After slicing the meat, I reheated the roast in Worcestershire sauce and a little water, and that did the trick! Hubby was thrilled that he didn't have to throw the roast away.
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