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I love rump roasts!!!! I also cook them in my crock pot. I cooked 2 the other night and got 3 meals out of them. First, I cooked them until tender then shredded it. I made got beef and Swiss sandwiches. Then I took the left over meat and juice and thickened it and did open face beef with potatoes and bread, last I took the gravy and meat and mixed in sour cream and served that over egg noodles, ad stroganoff. This time I'm doing chili, beef enchiladas and that's it so far, lol. Good luck!!!
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re: aasloan85
How long are you cooking the rump roast in the slow cooker? I put on at 9am this morning and it was 195 degrees by 2pm. My husband says it is hard a s a rock but the thermometer says 165. I am at wokr so I dont know how it looks. But I dont know if its is overdone and hard. Or it is not done enough. What should I do?
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I prefer to do it with my Crockpot. Use a good piece of beef bottom of the round (or whatever)...about 3 pounds, more or less. Give that piece a good rub-down with salt and pepper and brown on all sides in bacon fat & olive oil in a pot on stove-top. Put your peeled carrots, onions (pearl onions are also nice), garlic cloves, celery stalks with some of the green leaves attached onto the bottom of the Crockpot. Also, I have used small unpeeled potatoes (Youkon Gold, or red). Could also use parsnips or turnips, if desired.
The vegetables serve as a bed for the pot roast, so place the browned meat on top of the vegies. Sprinkle an envelope of Lipton's Onion Soup mix over the meat. Add a can of beef broth, and/or a can of cream of mushroom soup, or cream of celery soup. Cover the Crockpot, set on high and you can forget it for the next 7 or 8 hours! At times I add some sauteed mushrooms at the very end.
This will make a whole lot of liquid, so during the last half hour (or so) of cooking, I ladel out some into a small sauce pan and add enough AP flour (also seasonings) to thicken all of the juices in the Crockpot. Return this mixture back into Crockpot. You will have losts of gravy for reheating the meat for subsequent meals, and for mashed potatoes. I use some of that left over gravy by adding to tomato sauce when we have a saghetti meal....turns tomato sauce into a delicious meat flavored sauce.
Anything left over can be frozen.
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I disagree with almost all of the suggestions here (except Italian Beef and roast beef).
IMO Rump roast is a bad cut for almost all applications, including braising and kebabing. Ugh I hate when I go to a party and end up with rump kebobs in my mouth. Hahah :)
The following are my personal favorite uses for rump (aka any round meat)
1. Roast beef. The method hank mentioned above is awesome but there are other ways to cook a roast beef too...i love it slightly thick-sliced for dinner or thin sliced for lunch meat. Don't slice too thick because it makes the meat tougher...
2. Thin sliced marinated and cooked - like a cheesesteak/bulgogi application. The meat will still be tough but the thinness of the slices will make it seem more tender.
3. Raw. Tartar, would be the best but carpaccio would work too. I'm personally a sucker for yookwhe, Korean beef tartar.
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re: joonjoon
So it was a success! I salted and peppered and dipped it into some flour before I browned each side. I then sauteed some onions and garlic and put everything into a roasting pan with some chicken broth, some potatoes, and some carrots. It was pretty good (so he says!) and he sliced it really thinly to make sandwiches with today too. Thanks for all the help!
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Hank Hanover
Jan 19, 2011 02:49 AM
I cooked one just the other day. I hadn't cooked one in years. I used Cook's Illustrated's recipe for eye of round. I heavily salted it and wrapped it in plastic 24 hours earlier than I cooked it. When I got ready to cook it, I put pepper and garlic powder on it and seared all sides. I put it in a 225 degree oven, fat side up. I cooked it until it hit 135 degrees on a digital thermometer, and turned off the oven. I let it sit in there for another hour. It took a total of about 3.5 hours, I think. The temperature rose to about 145 degrees. It was pretty good. It was angus. I don't think I would do that with a select grade roast. The advantage a rump roast offers is that it is great for sandwiches after. I really like open face hot beef sandwiches with gravy. In fact, that is the whole reason I cooked a rump roast.
They can be braised but they aren't the perfect roast for braising either, chuck is.
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greygarious
Jan 18, 2011 10:53 AM
You will be surprised how much it shrinks. If you don't have a Dutch oven, a thick saucepan with a lid will do, or even a heavy, lidded skillet (in which case you'd cut the roast in half to reduce the height. Preheat well, film the pan with oil, and brown the meat well on all sides.
Add a pound of sliced or chopped onion, a bay leaf, and 4-5 whole cloves. A couple of cloves of garlic, sliced, couldn't hurt. Add 2 cups of broth, wine or beer if you wish, but that's optional. The meat and onions will produce enough moisture on their own. Turn to low or if using liquid, bring to simmer first, then reduce heat. Cover. Stir every 20-30 min. It's done when the meat is fork-tender. Remove meat and reduce liquid to taste, if necessary. Salt and pepper to taste. If you have Dutch oven you can use stovetop all the way, or put in a low oven for the low-heat cooking. You'll only get about 4 modest portions. -
Cube the roast, find a chili recipe and prepare it. Store the chili in 1 pint plastic containers which will hold about a bowlful. Each container can be eaten as a lunch by your carnivore boyfriend.
We save the supermarket plastic containers to use for storage of food in the freezer.
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bushwickgirl
Jan 18, 2011 05:31 AM
Rump roast is better suited to low and slow braising, a la pot roast. If the meat is Prime grade , it may be tender enough to dry roast to medium rare, but lesser quality cuts are better braised. Rump roast has good flavor. The first link has a short explanation of your cut, photos and nutritional infomation. The epicurious link has a classic time tested pot roast recipe made with rump, and can be easily updated with other root vegetables and seasonings or for a slow cooker, if you have. Lastly, the chow link is a rump roast use discussion, and may be useful for you:
http://www.recipetips.com/glossary-term/t--36097/rump-roast-beef.asp
http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/Basic-Pot-Roast-20096
