Slow Cooker Roast Beef With Pasta

Delicious Italian Pot Roast with Pasta otherwise known as a Stracotto.

Beef, cooked slowly with pancetta, carrots, onion, celery, garlic & sundried tomato puree on a low heat for hours in red wine and beef stock with thyme and bay leaves.

What joint of beef to use for Italian Pot Roast?

• Chuck/Blade/Shoulder, are the best option look for lots of fat marbling for a juicy pot roast.
• Brisket, also works well for pot roast, will require basting every hour.
• Topside/Silverside, will need regular basting.
• Shin/Shank/Skirt, less expensive but flavoursome cut.
• Braising Steak, not the best option but can be slow-cooked.

We used Brisket as it was a special offer in Sainsbury's Supermarket.

How to make Italian Pot Roast?

See our step by step video on how we made this delicious recipe. The full ingredients and cooking times are on the recipe card below.

The first step is to sear all sides of your meat in olive oil, giving it a nice well browned outer crust. Remove the beef, keeping the oil in the pan.

Add in the carrot, onion, celery, and pancetta, stirring in for a few minutes until softened. Add Garlic and Sundried Tomato Puree (or normal tomato puree).

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Next, add beef stock and red wine ( we used So Organic Sainsburys Shiraz) bring to the boil, turn the temperature down, before returning the beef back to the pan.

Add plenty of salt and pepper, and twist the thyme around a couple of bay leaves to add to the sauce. Making it easier to find them when you want to remove them later!

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Cover and cook in the oven at 150 C/ 300 F for a 2 ½ hours in total. This was a 1.24kg piece of meat, adjust accordingly to the size of your joint.

We basted our meat with the cooking liquid twice during cooking (after each hour). After 2 ½ hrs cooking, remove from oven.

Remove the beef from the cast iron pan and place the beef aside to rest.

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Now skim as much fat from the pan as possible, use a ladle and push down, trying to get the oil, not the sauce. You need some patience for this!

Then mix cornstarch with water before adding to the sauce (this helps prevent lumps by adding corn starch straight into pan).

Bring to the boil and stir in, put back to simmer, whilst you cook pasta.

Whilst the pasta is cooking and the sauce is thickening carve your meat.

What to serve with Stracotto?

We served ours up with Gemelli All'uovo pasta, which is an Italian egg pasta consisting of two strands twisted together. You can use your prefered pasta.

Alternatively, Italian Pot Roast is often served with Polenta, Mashed Potato or part of a roast dinner.

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Place sliced beef on top of the pasta, pouring the rich sauce all over. Add a sprinkle of fresh Thyme and parmesan cheese. You are ready to eat.

Italian Pot Roast With Pasta

Delicious Italian Pot Roast with Pasta otherwise known as a Stracotto. Beef, cooked slowly with pancetta, carrots, onion, celery, garlic, sundried tomato puree on a low heat for hours in red wine and beef stock, thyme and bay leaves.

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Prep Time 10 mins

Cook Time 2 hrs 20 mins

Course Dinner

Cuisine Italian

Servings 4 People

Calories 1456 kcal

• 3 tablespoon Olive oil
• 1.24 kg Beef Joint Chunk, Brisket, Flank, Skirt, Topside, Silverside
• 100 gram Pancetta Diced
• 3 Carrots diced small cubes
• 1 Celery stick diced
• 1 Large Onion diced
• 1 tablespoon Gia Garlic Puree or 6 cloves of garlic, crushed.
• 1 tablespoon Gia Sundried Tomato Puree or 2 tablespoon tomato puree
• 400 ml Red wine
• 400 ml Beef Stock
• 2 Bay leaves
• Thyme Bunch
• salt and pepper To season
• 500 gram Pasta We used Gemelli Alluovo
• 1 tablespoon Cornstarch mixed with 2 tablespoon of water

• Preheat oven to 150°C (fan)/ 300F

• Add 3 tablespoon of oil to a large cast-iron (hob to oven) pan on medium heat. Place beef joint in pan and sear meat on all sides, should take about 5 minutes. Transfer meat to a plate, leaving oil for the next step.

  3 tablespoon Olive oil, 1.24 kg Beef Joint

  

• Add carrot, celery, onion and pancetta to the pan, fry on medium heat for 7 minutes

  3 Carrots, 1 Celery stick, 1 Large Onion, 100 gram Pancetta

  

• Stir in Garlic and Sundried Tomato Puree.

  1 tablespoon Gia Garlic Puree, 1 tablespoon Gia Sundried Tomato Puree

  

• Add red wine and beef stock bring to the boil, turn the heat off.

  400 ml Red wine, 400 ml Beef Stock

  

• Return beef to pan, season with salt & plenty of pepper add thyme & bay leaves in the sauce.

  1.24 kg Beef Joint, 2 Bay leaves, Thyme, salt and pepper

  

• Cover and transfer to the oven. Total cook time is 2 ½ hours. However, I recommend to baste with the sauce at each hour. So time for 1 hour, baste, 1 hour, baste, then final 30 minutes. Keep covered the whole time.

  

• After 2 ½ hours. Remove beef from the pan and place aside rest. Throw away the bay leaves and thyme.

  Try to skim as much oil as possible from the top of the leftover sauce. Add Cornstarch and water mixture into the pan and bring to the boil, turn heat to a simmer and leave to thicken, Meanwhile, cook pasta to packet instructions.

  1 tablespoon Cornstarch

  

• Whilst the pasta cooks and sauce thickens, slice beef into thin slices.

  

• Serve pasta into a bowl, place sliced beef in centre and top with the delicious sauce. Add a sprinkle of parmesan and fresh thyme leaves.

  500 gram Pasta

  

• Enjoy!

Calories: 1456 kcal Carbohydrates: 121 g Protein: 102 g Fat: 52 g Saturated Fat: 15 g Cholesterol: 213 mg Sodium: 24456 mg Potassium: 2068 mg Fiber: 6 g Sugar: 22 g Vitamin A: 7643 IU Vitamin C: 5 mg Calcium: 131 mg Iron: 11 mg

Keyword Italian Pot Roast, italian recipe, Pot Roast, Roast Beef, Stracotto

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If you enjoyed this Italian Pot Roast with Pasta. Why not check out these equally delicious recipes to cook in cast iron dish take a look at our Curried Mince Hotpot or Persian Lamb Shanks.

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