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An easy sauerbraten recipe is perfect for a pot roast dinner on a lazy weekend. This one-pot dinner recipe is sure to become a favorite family dinner recipe.
If you love pot roast, or just need a new pot roast recipe, then you will love sauerbraten, a German pot roast recipe.
Pot roast is one of those popular dinner recipes that everyone takes for granted. Just throw the meat in the slow cooker with some carrots and potatoes and it’s good. This delicious slow cookerpot roast with biscuit topping recipe became a family favorite.
This saurbraten recipe is a fun to make in late September for Oktoberfest at home. Pair it with some Instant Pot Mashed Potatoes and green beans for delicious fall meal.
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How Long Does It Take to Make Sauerbraten?
Sauerbraten is easy to make, but it does take time. You have to plan ahead. The meat has to sit in a marinade for three days. Then the roast cooks in the oven for 3 hours. Make sure to plan ahead when you cook this.
Saurbraten is An Easy One Pot Meal
Aside from being amazingly yummy, this is also a one pot meal. Score! You can marinate the meat and then roast it in the same pot. You want a 5 quart or so pot with a lid for this recipe. If you don’t have a lid, you can cover the pot with aluminum foil while it marinates.
Three days before you want to eat sauerbraten for dinner, make the marinade. Everyone will complain about the house stinking from the vinegar but ignore them. It’s worth it! Once the marinade is cool, submerge the roast, put on the top and put it in the refrigerator for 3 days.
Roast the Meat in the Marinade
This is what the roast looks like after 3 days of soaking in goodness! You don’t need to remove the marinade before cooking, I just did it for a photo. Just put the pot right in the oven three hours before you want it ready to eat.
The roast needs to cook for 3-4 hours. After the roast is cooked through, remove it to a platter. Leave the liquid in the pot and put it on the stove.
Make the Saurbraten Gravy with Ginger Snap Cookies
Now it’s time to add the secret ingredient – crushed ginger snap cookies! Make sure to finely ground them in to crumbs to avoid lumps. Add the crumbs to the sauce and let it cook for a few minutes. You are basically making the most amazing gravy you’ve ever tasted. The ginger snaps will thicken the liquid.
How To Serve Saurbraten
You can leave the gravy thick and chunky with the carrots and onion or you can strain them out if you prefer. Serve the sauerbraten with roasted Brussels sprouts and Instant Pot Parmesan Potatoes for an amazing fall meal.
Ingredients
2 cups water
1 cup red wine vinegar
1 cup cider vinegar
1 cup chopped onion
1/4 cup chopped carrot
1/2 teaspoon black pepper
1/2 teaspoon dried mustard or prepared mustard
1/2 teaspoon dried cloves
3.5 lb bottom round
1/3 cup sugar
18 ginger snap cookies, finely crushed
Instructions
Add water, vinegars, clove, onion, carrot, pepper, and mustard to a 5 quart pot with a lid to a boil. Turn the heat down and simmer for 10 minutes. Remove from stove and allow to cool.
Submerge the roast in the marinade. Cover and refrigerate for 3 days.
When you are ready to cook the roast, preheat the oven to 325 degrees.
Set the roast out and let it warm up a bit. Once the oven is ready, stir in the sugar. Put the pot in with the cover on and cook for 3 hours or until the roast is cooked through.
Once the roast is done, remove from the oven. Carefully move the roast on to a plate. Leave the liquid in the pot.
Put the pot on the stove over medium high heat and add the gingersnap cookie crumbs. Stir to combine and cook until thickened, which will only take a few minutes.
You can strain the gravy if desired. Return the roast back to the pot, cover with gravy and serve.
Sauerbraten is a German roast of marinated meat, traditionally beef. Since it's generally made with tougher cuts (usually the rump roast), the meat is marinated for days at a time. The roast is sliced and served with a gravy. In some recipes, the gravy is made with gingersnaps.
The marinade should be at least halfway up the sides of the roast. If necessary add more wine. Cover tightly with foil or plastic wrap and refrigerate for 2 to 3 days, turning the meat in the marinade at least twice each day.
Wine Pairing: With Sauerbraten, opt for a Riesling from Germany to complement the sweet and sour notes. For roast goose, a medium to full-bodied red wine such as Spätburgunder (Pinot Noir) or a rich Riesling can be an excellent choice.
If it has turned out a little too tough (possibly the temperature was too high or it cooked too long), slice the meat perpendicular to its natural separations. It won't look as pretty on the plate, but will immensely help the tenderness. And that is my new favorite way to create something delicious out of beef round.
Usually beef, such as a boneless beef chuck roast, a rump roast, or a top round roast is used for sauerbraten. Originally, horse meat was used, but that isn't common now-a days. However, a pork roast, venison, or lamb are sometimes used for this marinated german-style pot roast.
Sauerbraten. Sauerbraten is regarded as one Germany's national dishes and there are several regional variations in Franconia, Thuringia, Rhineland, Saarland, Silesia and Swabia. This pot roast takes quite a while to prepare, but the results, often served as Sunday family dinner, are truly worth the work.
Always marinate in the refrigerator. Marinating at room temperature can allow dangerous bacteria to grow and lead to foodborne illnesses. Marinate vegetables for 15 to 30 minutes, fish and seafood for 15 minutes to one hour, poultry for 30 minutes to 3 hours, and other meat for 30 minutes to overnight.
Regardless of what type of protein dinner happens to be, make sure to keep your marinating period under 24 hours. And when we say under 24 hours, we're also talking way under 24 hours. Marinating chicken, lamb, pork, or steak for just 15 or 20 minutes actually makes a huge difference.
You'll most likely see this dish served with spaetzle, potato dumplings, or mashed potatoes and cabbage. Oktoberfest beer pairing: Choose a dunkelweiss, märzen, or weissbier to go with this rich German dish.
They are generally made from pork or veal and served grilled or boiled. A light red wine or a full-bodied white pairs nicely with them. Red wine (normally a Pinot Noir with high acidity) pairs well with vinegar-marinated veal sauerbraten.
Glühwein, as mulled wine is known in Germany, is essentially red wine heated with spices, lemon and sugar - generally cinnamon and cloves are used in all recipes, with some adding aniseed or vanilla. A variation on the mulled wine is the Feuerzangenbowle.
Ritter (German for "knight") is a designation used as a title of nobility in German-speaking areas. Traditionally it denotes the second-lowest rank within the nobility, standing above "Edler" and below "Freiherr" (Baron).
Of all these regional and national dishes, Germany is most famous for Currywurst, sausages, pretzels and Black Forest Gateau, but as you can see, there is plenty more to German cuisine than just these.
The Chateaubriand beef tenderloin roast is considered to be the most tender cut of beef for a roast. This cut of beef comes from the loin area of the cow, which is right below the backbone, behind the rib section and in front of the sirloin section.
The roast beef is part of the beef hind quarter. Its distinctly high, soft fat lid protects the meaty meat when roasting. Since, unlike entrecôte, it only consists of a single muscle strand, it is easy to cook.
Chuck roast is arguably the best cut to use for pulled beef. Similar to the front shoulder of pork (or the pork “butt”) chuck roasts, being from the front shoulder of the steer, are chock full of fat, collagen, and marbling.
Fat is a key part of a meat's flavor and tenderness; the more, the better. So, while both these cuts are classified as extra lean, the rump's relatively higher fat levels make for a slightly better-tasting cut.
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