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Coca-Cola “Sunday” Pot Roast

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  • Prep Time: 15 minutes
  • Cook Time: 3 ½ to 4 hours
  • Total Time: -28919823.35 minute
  • Yield: 6 to 8 servings

Ingredients

  • 1 (3 to 4-pound) sirloin tip roast or chuck roast
  • Salt and pepper to taste
  • 1 cup self-rising flour
  • ½ cup vegetable oil
  • 1 (10.75-ounce) can condensed cream of mushroom soup
  • 1 envelope dry onion soup mix
  • 2 cups water
  • 1 (12-ounce) can cola-cola-favored carbonated beverage
  • 2 large onions, quartered
  • 5 medium-sized potatoes, peeled and cut into quarters
  • 1 ½ cups baby carrots or 4 large carrots peeled and cut into 1-inch pieces

Instructions

  1. Preheat the oven to 325 degrees F. Rinse roast and pat dry with paper towels. Sprinkle with salt and pepper on both sides of roast.
  2. Dredge roast in flour, coating well on both sides and all around sides of meat.
  3. Heat oil in a large heavy skillet. Place roast in hot oil. Brown on both sides.
  4. Place a browning bag in a roasting pan and gently slide the brown meat into the browning bag.
  5. Mix cream of mushroom soup, water, dry onion soup mix and Coca-Cola together. Pour cream of mushroom mixture over roast.
  6. Bake roast in the preheated oven for 2 ½ hours. Remove from oven and add vegetables to roast. Return to oven and continue baking for an hour longer or until meat and vegetables are tender.

Notes

Do ahead tip/freezer:  Roast can be prepared a day before and stored in the refrigerator and Warmed up in the on low heat about 200 degrees F. or microwave. Cook roast will freeze up to 2 months. Thaw in the refrigerator overnight before warming.

Recipe tip:  Pot roast is great cooked in a crock pot or slow cooker. Place in crock pot after step 3. Pour the cream of mushroom soup mixture over meat and cook on medium heat for 6 to 8 hours. Add vegetables after about 3 hours.