Beef Chuck Roast

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  • Number of Servings: 8
Ingredients
3 pounds Beef chuck, arm pot roast4 cloves garlic, peeled and halved1 teaspoon coarsely ground black pepper
Directions
Preheat oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C). Secure roast with cooking twine.
Make 8 (1/2 inch) slits around the roast, and insert 1/2 garlic clove into each slit. Sprinkle with fresh ground pepper. Place on a rack in roasting pan.
Roast in preheated oven for 20 minutes. Reduce heat to 325 degrees F, and insert meat thermometer into roast. Continue cooking about 1 hour, or to desired doneness; remove from oven. Loosely cover with foil, and let roast stand 15 minutes before slicing.
To serve, slice thinly against the grain, and use pan drippings for gravy.

Number of Servings: 8

Recipe submitted by SparkPeople user SLCTALBOT.

Servings Per Recipe: 8
Nutritional Info Amount Per Serving
  • Calories: 212.1
  • Total Fat: 6.1 g
  • Cholesterol: 102.1 mg
  • Sodium: 114.3 mg
  • Total Carbs: 0.7 g
  • Dietary Fiber: 0.1 g
  • Protein: 36.3 g

Member Reviews
  • 123QUICKLY
    Great way to cook a chuck roast! Very tender compared to other recipes for chuck. - 3/23/09
  • NEPTUNE1939
    tasty - 5/2/21
  • MUGABI123
    Love me some chuck roast! - 2/26/21
  • RD03875
    Very good, not a lot of fussing and preparing. Thanks for posting - 8/17/19
  • 1CRAZYDOG
    I love chuck roast this way, and in the crock pot. - 2/22/19
  • CD6913562
    This a great way to cook a less expensive beef roast and it comes out very tender. - 10/26/18
  • EVILCECIL
    Yum. - 9/13/18
  • DMEYER4
    very tasty - 9/4/18
  • SHARKMAMA
    yummi ! - 10/23/11
  • PMCOPPI10
    Bought the roast on sale and didn't know how to prepare it.
    This recipe is yummy and the garlic is great for healing my pissy cold too. thanks. - 10/31/10
  • LLRUFFO
    Very Good! - 9/19/10
  • DZZLGRL
    It was easy and delicious. Even my kids loved it and they are not always a fan of beef. - 3/31/10
  • TANNERSMOM7
    Great recipe! All I changed was the amount of garlic because we are not quite so fond of it - or at least DH is not. It's uncomplicated and was a great way to make use of the "on sale" item this week! - 8/7/09