Have Your Ever Tried to Recreate Dish

Have you ever tried to recreate a dish grandma made? Maybe you have tried making it but you just can't seem to get it just right or even make it taste exactly like grandma's? I don't know but everyone loves turning to the comfort food of home.

Comfort food comes from many places and in a lot different flavors from it's cultural orientation. In the Midwest, comfort food comes by in the essence of gravy, mashed potatoes, pork, or even a thick juicy steak hot off the grill smothered in mushrooms and onions. Down south by New Orleans it comes in the form of Creole shrimp, saffron rice, or even spicy jambalaya. What happens when you take two styles of comfort food and combine them? You get spicy Cajun pot roast!

Here's the recipe.

Spicy Cajun Pot roast

• 4lbs- boneless chuck roast
• 2- white onions (1/4 inch thick cut in 1/2 moon shapes)
• 2- green peppers (1/4 inch thick cut in 1/2 moon shapes)
• 2- jalapeños (minced)
• 3- cloves garlic (minced)
• 2- caribe peppers (minced)
• 16- baby red potatoes (cut into fourths)
• 2c- beef stock
• 2c- cajun or creole seasoning
• 1c- slurry (corn starch and water mixed together)

Pre heat oven to 300 degrees. Rub the chuck roast down with Cajun or Creole seasoning well, massaging it for about 5 minutes working in the meat. Then let stand for 1 minute. In an oven safe Dutch oven pot or a 4 to 5 quart sauce pot sear the roast well on all sides, making sure to lock in all the great cajun flavor. Add your peppers, onions, potatoes, and beef stock to deglaze the pan and release the flavors from the bottom of the pot. Cover the pot and slide into oven. Bake at 300 degrees for 3-5 hours or until the roast and vegetables are fork tender.
Remove from oven and place roast onto serving platter to rest for about 10 minutes. Strain out vegetables and place around roast while preserve liquid on stove top. Bring liquid up to a simmer. Once simmer whisk in your slurry to thicken the liquid. It should start to take on a gravy consistency. At this point you can add more Cajun or just salt and pepper to the gravy to spice it up. Just before service, ladle Cajun gravy over roast.

Enjoy!