Coffee Roast Beef

I know this doesn’t sound like it would be good, but give it a try.  It doesn’t taste like coffee at all and only takes a few minutes to prepare. 

Ingredients:

2 1/2 – 4 lbs. Roast Beef any cut you prefer I use an eye round.

1 large onion

5 cloves of garlic

4 carrots – for the gravy, I make 8-10 and server the rest

3-4 stalks of celery

2 cups of strong coffee – I have used both decaf and regular it doesn’t matter

1/2 cup of oil

Directions:

1. You can make this in a crock pot (slow cooker) or the oven.  Set the crock pot to low for 6-8 hours, you can use the high setting also and cook it for 4 hours but it wont be as tender.  If you are using the oven pre-heat to 350 degrees and cook for 2-3 hours.
2. Pour oil into crock pot or roasting pan.
3. Cut onion into thick slices, peel and cut carrots into sticks about half the size of a full carrot, peel garlic cloves.
4. Place roast, garlic, onions and carrots in crock pot or roasting pan.  Pour coffee over the top.
5. Cook roast and baste occasionally if you are around.
6. When done cooking I leave the roast in the crock pot on warm while a prepare the gravy.  Then I slice it and server it.

Gravy

1. Use the left over juice to make the grave.  I put the juice (if there isn’t much left add 1/2 cup of water), carrots, some of half the onion, the celery and some the garlic, any scrapings from the pan in the blender and blend until smooth, if you have a handheld immersion blender it works great I hear. 
2. Cook in a pot or the roasting dish on the stove top until thick.