Pork or Beef Roast with Garlic

Mmmmmm savory Pork Roast featured here!

This recipe is equally good with beef or pork.

May be cooked in the oven @ 375º for about 3 hours, or slow cooked in crock pot for 8-10 hrs.

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Begin with your favorite Pork or Beef Roast cut.

Chop up garlic pieces into various sizes:

With small, sharp knife make a tiny slit anywhere in the roast and insert one piece of garlic.

push garlic all the way into the cut.

Continue doing this to cover the entire outer area of the roast (where you are able).

Save any garlic pieces you may have leftover to add to vegetables later, or throw them on top of roast.

Rub moderate amount of pepper over roast.

Rub 1/2 pkg of dry onion soup mix over roast.

Place in roasting pan or crock pot with 1/8th of an inch of water at bottom of pan/pot.

*If you are using a slow cooker, add vegetables (see below) at this point as well, and cook for 8-10 hours.*

In the oven at 375 degrees cover and cook for 2 hours. (you will add vegetables in the third hour).

It is wisest to overcook, rather than under-cook, pork as raw pork can make you sick. Beef can be cooked in less time.

Wash and chop potatoes, leaving skins on. (or use tiny red or white potatoes without chopping and leaving the skins on).

Chop up carrots into elongated chunky pieces, cutting off ends, but leaving skins on.

Always leave skins on potatoes & carrots for optimal nutritional quality.

Peel and chop onions into quarters.

After roast has cooked for 2 hours, then add your vegetables, arranging them around the roast, adding more water to bottom of pan as necessary to maintain 1/8th of an inch in the bottom.

Feel free to experiment with other vegetables as well  if you desire (i.e., parsnips, bell peppers etc).

(*note, there is tin foil in this picture for other purposes.  Do NOT add any tin foil).

No need to add salt or pepper as there is plenty in the pepper and soup mix you rubbed on the roast.

Bake for an additional hour.  Lift the lid for final 20 minutes to slightly brown your vegetables.

Once done, take out meat and vegs and make gravy with the drippings (water in the bottom).

Arrange meat and vegetables on a platter and serve with gravy and biscuits  on the side.

Mmmmmmm an aroma to die for.  Home cooking at its best!

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