How Do You Do Basic Cooking, Pot Roast With Tomatoes?
If you are trying to learn basic cooking skills, pot roast is one of the easier dishes you can make. And pot roast with tomatoes is even easier because you don’t need to make gravy. (Because this recipe is for beginners, I explain a lot of details. For advanced cooks, just look at the header sentences.) You will use two basic cooking skills: browning and simmering. It will take a long time to cook this dish, but most of that time will be simmering. You will also learn a little about “reduction” which is basically just cooking down the sauce to thicken it. Choose your meat. Pot roast is the perfect basic cooking method for a cheaper cut of meat. Just make sure there is some “marbling” of fat throughout the meat. This will give you both better flavor and better texture. The best cut is a chuck roast. Pick a roast that fits your pan pretty closely. (You can cut a chunk off to make it fit better.) You will want a little space around the meat so that a little air will circulate while you ar
