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Boneless Chuck Pot Roast

A pot roast made with boneless chuck, mushroom soup, and seasonings, simmered until tender.

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Why it works: Garlic and onion match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 29,058 recipes. Both carry furaneol, which smells caramel, strawberry. The science ↓

Boneless Chuck Pot Roast

Time2-3½ hours

Ingredients

Directions

Brown the roast

  1. Melt ½ stick butter. Put roast in Dutch oven in melted butter, brown really brown.

  2. Turn over, brown other side.

Season and braise

  1. Add garlic salt, onion salt, salt, pepper and Worcestershire sauce.

  2. Pour mushroom soup on top of roast. Spread over roast.

  3. Put 2-3 cans water into Dutch oven over roast.

  4. Cover and cook 2-3½ hours on low heat.

  5. Check to see if you need to add more water in hour or so.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

176Calories
5 gProtein
12 gFat
15 gCarbs

Counts 6 of 7 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 6 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Mushroom1/2 cup sliced (35g)15
Soy Sauce1 tbsp (15ml)9
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Soupnot in our table0

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

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Steps grouped into stages for easier reading; the method is the source's own.

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The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Garlic + oniontop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together29,058 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  2. Garlic + mushroomtop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,700 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

  3. Butter + mushroomtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together12,525 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-decenal (waxy, orange).

  4. Garlic + peppertop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,090 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  5. Onion + mushroomtop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together10,626 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

What each ingredient does

Chuck roast
Forms the main body of the dish; long, slow cooking softens its connective tissue into tender meat.
Mushroom soup
Provides moisture and savory, creamy body to the sauce as it cooks with the roast.
Butter
Fat for the initial sear, helping the surface of the roast brown well.
Worcestershire sauce
Adds savory, tangy depth that rounds out the flavor of the sauce.

The step that matters

Brown the roast really well. Browning creates deep flavor through the Maillard reaction, which the moist braise cannot build later. Pale searing leaves the sauce and meat tasting flat.

Swap the onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (butter, garlic, pepper, mushroom, sauce):

  1. Shallotfits about as well
  2. Spinachfits about as well
  3. Capsicumfits about as well
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against butter, garlic, pepper, mushroom, sauce. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.

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