How to Make Roast Beef

Learning how to make roast beef is so simple you'll want to have it often. It is easiest prepared in a crock pot and cooked for 6-8 hours but you can also cook it in the oven for one hour depending on the size of your roast. Add cut potatoes, onions, turnips or carrots with your roast and you have dinner ready all in one pot.

Crock Pot Roast Beef Recipe

beef (or substitute a pork roast)
1-2 onions, chopped
1/2 Cup water
salt and pepper
Place meat, onions and water in crock pot. Season with salt and pepper. Cook 6-8 hours. Drain and set broth aside for later. Let sit for 5-10 minutes then cut or shred.

If you are preparing roast beef in the oven, place roast in a large casserole pan and bake for 40 minutes-1 hour depending on how big your roast is. Bake at 350 degrees.
If you are adding vegetables place inside the crock pot and season with salt and pepper also. You can also add vegetables to your roast in the oven. Just place vegetables along the sides of your pan.
You can reserve the broth after your roast beef is done cooking, to make gravy, barbecue sauce recipe below or discard.

What to do with Roast Beef Leftovers

If you are lucky to have leftovers try some of these ideas:

Sheperds pie
Roast beef sandwiches
Barbecue beef roast (recipe below)
Tossed in a chef salad
Beef quesdillas
Beef tacos

Barbecue Beef Roast

Barbecue Sauce
1/2 Cup meat broth (broth you drained and set aside from above)
1 Cups ketchup
1 teaspoon mustard
1 Tablespoons vinegar
1 1/2 Tablespoons brown sugar
1 1/2 Tablespoons Worcestershire sauce
Salt and pepper to taste
Combine all sauce ingredients in a measuring cup. Stir shredded meat into the sauce and pour back in the crock pot for about 20 minutes or warm in the microwave or oven. Serve shredded meat on buns or rolls.