Garlic Thyme Roast With Red Wine

Total Time: 4 hrs 15 mins Preparation Time: 15 mins Cook Time: 4 hrs

Ingredients

• Servings: 8
• 3 lbs chuck roast
• 6 medium garlic cloves, halved
• 2 tablespoons olive oil
• 1 tablespoon butter
• 1 yellow onion, quartered and sliced
• 1 cup brown button mushroom, fresh
• 4 tablespoons flour
• 2 cups red wine
• 2 beef bullion cubes in 1 cup hot water
• fresh ground black pepper
• 1 teaspoon dried thyme
• 2 sweet potatoes, cut into 2-inch chunks
• 3 large carrots, cut into 2-inch lengths

Recipe

• 1 cut 12 slits in the raw pot roast, spacing as even as possible. put a half garlic clove in each slit.
• 2 heat the oil in a dutch oven on the stove on medium heat and sear all sides of the roast. remove from pan.
• 3 put butter in hot pan and reduce heat to medium;add onion. cook, stirring, until onion is slightly browned.
• 4 add mushrooms. cook 2 more minutes.
• 5 add flour and stir, cooking another 2 minutes.
• 6 stir in wine and beef bullion mixture. keep cooking and stirring until the broth gets thickened and bubbly.
• 7 return meat to pan and cover dutch oven and place on a medium-height rack in oven, set to 325.
• 8 allow to cook, covered, for 2 hours.
• 9 add carrots and sweet potatoes and allow to cook another 2 hours, covered.
• 10 serve with fresh ground black pepper.