Cranberry Pot Roast

8 Servings
Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 3 hours 30 minutes
Total Time 3 hours 40 minutes
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Cranberry Pot Roast is juicy, flavorful, and tender. The perfect dinner to use up cranberry sauce after the holidays or any time of year.

When it comes to hearty, comforting Dinner Recipes, tender Pot Roast is the way to go. The tender meat makes a filling meal, ideal to warm you up in the winter.

Sabrina’s Cranberry Pot Roast Recipe

Everybody loves Cranberry Sauce for the holidays, but you might not want it in the days that follow. So, what can you do with the leftovers? This Cranberry Pot Roast recipe will take care of it. While the roast cooks in the dutch oven, the flavors and seasonings are all absorbed into the tender roast. By the time it’s done cooking, you’ll have delicious melt-in-your-mouth beef roast that is flavored to perfection.

Cranberry Pot Roast Recipe

Cranberry Pot Roast is juicy, flavorful, and tender. The perfect dinner to use up cranberry sauce after the holidays or any time of year.
Yield 8 Servings
Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 3 hours 30 minutes
Total Time 3 hours 40 minutes
Course Dinner
Cuisine American
Author Sabrina Snyder

Ingredients
 

  • 3 pounds beef chuck roast , boneless
  • 2 tablespoons canola oil
  • 2 teaspoons kosher salt
  • 1/4 teaspoon coarse ground black pepper
  • 2 pounds baby red potatoes
  • 14 ounces canned whole cranberry sauce
  • 2 garlic cloves , minced
  • 1 teaspoon dried rosemary
  • 1 cup fresh cranberries
  • 3 cups beef broth

Instructions

  • Preheat your oven to 325 degrees.
  • Season the chuck roast with kosher salt, and pepper.
  • Add the canola oil to large dutch oven over medium-high heat. When it is hot and ripples, add in the roast. Cook until deep brown, for 4-5 minutes on each side.
  • Add potatoes, cranberry sauce, garlic, rosemary, fresh cranberries, and beef broth. Place in the preheated oven and cook for 3 – 3 ½ hours.
  • If you want a thicker sauce, 30 minutes before it is done skim the fat off the top, add a cornstarch slurry (1 tablespoon of cornstarch and 1 tablespoon of water) to the pot and cook for remaining 30 minutes.

Nutrition

Calories: 509kcal | Carbohydrates: 40g | Protein: 36g | Fat: 23g | Saturated Fat: 9g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 3g | Monounsaturated Fat: 12g | Trans Fat: 1g | Cholesterol: 117mg | Sodium: 1077mg | Potassium: 1157mg | Fiber: 3g | Sugar: 18g | Vitamin A: 59IU | Vitamin C: 12mg | Calcium: 50mg | Iron: 5mg

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About the Author: Sabrina Snyder

Sabrina is a professionally trained Private Chef of over 10 years with ServSafe Manager certification in food safety. She creates all the recipes here on Dinner, then Dessert, fueled in no small part by her love for bacon.

Sabrina Snyder is a professionally trained personal and private chef of over 10 years who is the creator and developer of all the recipes on Dinner, then Dessert.

She is also the author of the cookbook Dinner, then Dessert – Satisfying Meals Using Only 3, 5 or 7 Ingredients, published by Harper Collins.

She started Dinner, then Dessert as a business in her office as a lunch service for her coworkers who admired her lunches before going to culinary school and becoming a full time personal chef and private chef.

As a personal chef Sabrina would cook for families one day a week and cook their entire week of dinners. All grocery shopping, cooking and cleaning was done along with instructions on reheating. As a private chef she cooked for private parties and cooked in family homes in the evenings for families on a nightly basis after working as a personal chef during the day.

Sabrina has been certified as a ServSafe Manager since 2007 and was a longstanding member of the USPCA Personal Chef Association including being on the board of the Washington DC Chapter of Chefs in the US Personal Chef Association when they won Chapter of the year.

As a member of the community of food website creators Sabrina Snyder has spoken at many conferences regarding her experiences as a food writer including the Indulge Food Conference, Everything Food Conference, Haven Food Conference and IACP Annual Food Professionals Conference.

Sabrina lives with her family in sunny California.

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