I have been craving carne guisada, but do not always want to eat spicier food. HEB my local grocery made the decision easy for me by putting shoulder roast on sale for $2.47/lb. Game on. Nothing like discount roast beef. I like to use KISS or Keep it simple stupid and took a approximately 3 pound roast and cooked it with minimal ingredients. Trimmed off some fat and about 1 pound of meat to keep back for stir fry later.
- Modelo Especial
- onion soup mix
- canned mushrooms
- salt
- black pepper
- 2tbsp All purpose flour
- 2tbsp butter
- about 2 lbs of shoulder roast.
Let the meat rest covered until it gets to room temperature. Preheat the oven to 375 freedom units or 190 world units. Heat a heavy cast iron dutch oven medium hign and brown the meat in a bit of oil. coat browned meat with salt and pepper.
Add the package of onion soup mix, and the beer. Cover and place in the oven for about 20 minutes for each pound of meat, but mine went for 55 minutes at 2.2 pounds. Note the beer and soup was about 1 inch deep in the pan and helps prevent drying out the meat. I turned it over once during cooking at about halftime.
Make a light roux with the butter and flour. Once the meat was 130-140 degrees on the meat thermometer. Pull it out to rest for 20 minutes. While it rests, put the roux and the canned mushrooms in the beer and onion soup left in the dutch oven to make gravy. Simmer until it is as thick as you like.
I portioned it out as my normal weekly meal prep one for me one to share with my parents, and a plate to eat right away.