So this week I was feeling lazy so instead of a bunch of small meals, I would just cook a huge chunk of meat! I decided to make a pot roast. I looked to one of the best low carb websites: Linda’s. Here is the recipe I roughly based it off of: http://genaw.com/lowcarb/laredo_bbq_pot_roast.html
Here is the finished, juicy results 🙂
Rough chop one regular sized yellow onion.
For this roast, I used an 8.2 lb Beef Chuck Shoulder Roast! I salted and peppered the whole thing.
The next step is going to involve searing the meat. To do this, I put bacon grease I’d stored into the pan and heated it up.
It almost didn’t fit but damn did it smell good 🙂
Here is the meat in the crockpot. It almost didn’t fit!
Fry the onions in the pan with the drippings from the searing.
Mix up the BBQ sauce mixture, using low carb ingredients instead of store bought BBQ sauce.
Pull the meat out and let it sit before separating.
Pour the sauce into a pan and reduce by half via boiling.
Here is the finished, pulled meat, yum! I pulled it into dinner sized portions.
- Serves: 12
- Calories: 701
- Fat: 22
- Carbohydrates: 4
- Fiber: 0
- Protein: 75
- 8 lb Beef Chuck Shoulder Roast
- 1 Yellow Onion
- 5 tsp Minced Garlic
- 3 T Bacon Grease (can use butter)
- 2 T Worcestershire Sauce
- 4 T Vinegar
- 1 T Yellow Mustard
- 4 T Splenda
- 1 tsp Liquid Smoke
- To Taste Salt and pepper
- Rough chop an onion and set aside
- Coat the roast with salt and pepper
- Heat up bacon fat in a frying pan and sear the roast on all sides, 1 to 1:30 minutes on each side
- Place the meat in the crockpot
- Fry onions in the leftover grease, pour over meat
- Mix Mustard, Garlic, Worcestershire, Vinegar, Spenda and Liquid smoke
- Pour sauce over the meat
- Cook in crockpot on low, 1 to 1 hour 15 minutes per lb of roast. I cooked this one 9 hours.
- Remove meat from crockpot, separate into dinner sized portions
- Move liquid to a pan and reduce by half. Serve with the meat.
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Is there no tomato ingredient in the bbq sauce?
Hmm, It does appear like I forgot to add tomatoes to the sauce! It still tasted good without the tomato sauce, but after looking back at the original recipe linked, they did include an 8 oz can of tomato sauce. I guess if you wanted it more bbq / tomato like add a 16 oz can of tomato sauce.
After I reduced the juices I added 4T of heinz reduced sugar ketchup to give it some tomato taste. 4g of carbs across 80oz of meat didn’t add too much, and it tasted great.
Thanks for the recipe!
Great recipe, this was really good! I used a small can of tomato sauce after reducing the liquid, and also added about 1/2 a tsp of maple extract. I’ll be making this often!
Is it really 4 tablespoons of Splenda? I’m making this for the 2nd time today and last time I used 4T of Splenda and that made it way to sweet.. This time I’m using a lot less.. Cross fingers for me 🙂