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[Katcat1]

I need a recipe for a Round Bottom Roast.  I actually ordered round steak and the shopper gave me a roast instead which I was reimbursed for because I complained.  I was thinking I would place in roasting pan with Lipton's onion soup mix and cut up white potatoes and fresh carrots and bake at 325 for 3 or 3-1/2 hours.  Do you have other suggestions?

[On It]

@Katcat1 That is a tough cut of meat. I have never been successful cooking one that is tender. I hope someone responds with a solution.

[LindaSal]

Your recipe sounds delicious.  I would follow that but for a bottom round I would put all the ingredients in the crockpot with beef broth for 8 hours on low.  This way the meat will fall apart and you'll have a nice broth for gravy.   Enjoy

[RedTop]

@Katcat1 

A round bottom roast is a big solid hunk of beef that needs liquid to force tenderness.  

You can definitely oven roast by the method you've written, and you will have a drier, but sliceable roast. 

This roast does much better low and slow in a crock pot, or in a covered dutch oven in the oven, with beef broth.   The end result will be fork tender, shreadable meat.

[On It]

I make really good, pan-fried chicken fried steak. One of the factors in its taste is using round steak, bottom cut that is tenderized. Back in the day I bought the whole steak that had the round bone. Later, the bone disappeared and similar parts of the steak were available prepackaged together.

In the past 3 or 4 years, round steak has all but disappeared. The four companies that control our beef supply seem to have all but eliminated it. There might be one or two suppliers but I rarely find it in my local supermarket. They have cube steak, but it does not taste the same as whole round steak.

[RedTop]

@On It 

Round steak was a favorite here.  However, I think much of the demise of round steak came about because people didn't know how to cook it, and it did not sell well enough to substantiate the time it took a butcher to make those specialized cuts.   

[ECBG]

I have a delicious recipe.  Of course if you do it in a crock pot, it will be much more tender, otherwise very thin slices.

Mushroom Roast

Rump  or Sirloin Tip (I do 5 lbs)

2 Cans mushroom soup

1 Pkg Lipton Dry Onion Soup packets

2 tsp. Thyme

2 Tbsp. parsley

2 Tbsp. Steak sauce

2 Tbsp. Worchestchire sauce

Cut off fat and place roast in deep casserole.

Mix all remaining ingredients and pour over.

Cover as tightly as possible.

Bake at 325 degrees 3 hrs. (Crock pot 6 hrs)

You may need to thicken the gravy if the roast has a lot of juices.

[grandma2pkmh]

@Katcat1   I usually do mine in the pressure cooker. I put everything in except the potatoes and carrots, cook for 1 hour on high pressure, then do a fast pressure release, add the veggies and cook again for 20  minutes and let it release pressure on its own.  Works on any cut of roast.

[redbird]

I buy bottom round roast to cut up into stew meat....gives stew such a rich flavor.

[gizmogal]

This recipe calls for Eye-of-Round, but I have followed it for rump roast and bottom round very successfully.  It's so very easy and it may seem implausible, but it produces juicy, tender, flavorful beef. 

It starts out in an ordinary oven at extremely high heat initially and then the beef roasts for a couple of hours simply by the decreasing heat of the turned-off oven. You are not supposed to open the oven to "check" on it and you can season as you desire. Very uncomplicated!  

Read all about it. I provided links that show this same recipe on various websites to give it more authority as a well-used method:

https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/94113/high-temperature-eye-of-round-roast/

https://www.bigoven.com/recipe/high-temp-eye-of-round-roast/185424

https://www.food.com/recipe/500-f-eye-of-round-roast-321948

Impossible to mess this up. Beef is expensive and you won't waste your bottom round this way. Pay attention to the minutes-per-pound instructions at the beginning so you can be accurate to adjust for the weight of your bottom round. 

Not saying other recipes or methods or your own ideas aren't delicious solutions. Only a recommendation.

bon appetit!

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@Katcat1 wrote:

I need a recipe for a Round Bottom Roast.  I actually ordered round steak and the shopper gave me a roast instead which I was reimbursed for because I complained.  I was thinking I would place in roasting pan with Lipton's onion soup mix and cut up white potatoes and fresh carrots and bake at 325 for 3 or 3-1/2 hours.  Do you have other suggestions?

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