Help pot roasting/ slow cooker beef AR

**Rosa** · 17-05-2011, 12:11pm

I've got a bit of topside and I was going to do this delia recipe, pot roast with red wine which sounds yum. But I've just come to look at the recipe and I need to cook it for three hours and I won't be able to do that today as I'll be out later. Would it be ok to do in the slow cooker? How long do you think?

http://www.deliaonline.com/recipes/c...marmalade.html

**Rosa** · 17-05-2011, 12:11pm

Also will the slow cooker be hot enough to get the wine simmering?? or will it just be mulled wine??

**LiLi** · 17-05-2011, 12:18pm

Can you turn the slow cooker up to high first for a while? Or put the liquid in warm? I'm no expert though - I just tend to bung stuff in the slow cooker and leave it until tea time (however long that is!)

**Elvisola** · 17-05-2011, 01:09pm

I always do beef with wine in the slow cooker. Cook on high for about 4/5 hours. It tastes absolutely divine and the meat falls apart. Yum!

**Rosa** · 17-05-2011, 01:30pm

Fab that sounds good, I'll put it on before I go out. Do you brown it first?

**LiLi** · 17-05-2011, 01:34pm

Originally Posted by Red Lou

Fab that sounds good, I'll put it on before I go out. Do you brown it first?

Never!

**Elvisola** · 17-05-2011, 01:42pm

No, I just chuck it all in cold and turn on.

**Rosa** · 17-05-2011, 02:39pm

Great, thank you for advice, I've just shoved it all in with red wine and a bay leaf and will hope for the best. Going to try and make a gravy afterwards by sieving the juices and wine and reducing it a bit with some butter and maybe cranberry jelly