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**Cooking with Kaleo** Pot Roast in the Instant Pot (Video included!!!)

I meant to get this video up yesterday, but kids have this incredible way of thwarting your best laid plans.  So, it gets posted today.  On Turkey day.  Which isn't exactly fitting- but that's real life for ya folks.   That being said, many people are cooking their turkeys in the Instant Pot this year- although I'm not (sorry folks).

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Kaleo was bright eyed and bushy tailed, with a full on NAP REFUSAL the moment I started to set out my ingredients for this cooking project.  So, today's video features Kaleo- that's right, we'll be cooking with Kaleo.  Maybe he'll become a famous chef someday (or morph into a steamroller that just plows into and rolls over everything!)  Either way, both the 2 littlest kids end up in this video.  I thought about apologizing for that, but then I realized I think people NEED to see that real life is full of interruptions, crying children, and other distractions that require our attention.  Especially those of us who are parents.

That's one of the reasons why I love this pot so much.  At first I thought... "well, this thing doesn't really save me THAT much time if it takes 20 minutes to come to pressure and then 90 minutes to cook a roast" but then I gave it a whirl and realized this is ideal for busy family life because it's a "set it and forget it" type of thing.  I don't have to check on my roast, I don't have to make sure it isn't drying out.  I don't have to make sure I remember to uncover it at a certain cooking point.  I don't have to think about the darn thing until it beeps that it's completely done.  Which gives me the ability to tend to babies and toddlers and children, that never ending laundry, prepping the school lunches, helping someone with homework, the inevitable need to discipline someone for something.  And I don't have to worry about screwing up dinner with being inattentive to it.

This is a recipe my friend Karisa shared with me, just verbally.  Nothing written and therefore I've got nothing to link you to here.  But, I will provide an ingredients list and instructions of the steps I took in the video!



INGREDIENTS:
-Beef Chuck Pot Roast (mine is 4.5lbs)
-Seasoning- Black pepper, lawrys seasoned salt, Garlic salt, Onion Powder
-One to Two onions- halved or quartered
-3TBSP olive oil
-Fresh chopped garlic (if desired, I did not use this time)
-Red and yellow potatoes, Halved (4-5 of each depending on size)
-2-3 cups of small carrots
-2 cups beef broth
-Recipe Secrets Onion and Beefy onion soup and dip mix

DIRECTIONS:
1. Cut pot roast into smaller chunks (makes browning easier)
2. Season to your liking with above recommended seasonings (or any you prefer)
3. Add 3TBSP oil to the instant pot, and hit the Saute feature.  Wait 4-5 minutes for oil to heat
4. Place chunks of meat into instant pot and brown on all sides
5. Remove meat, add 2 cups of beef broth and scrape the bottom of the pot
6. Add back the browned meat
7. Add 1 packet each of the Recipe secrets mixes
8. Add the onion to the top 
9. Put the lid on the pot and seal it
10. Set the pot for 90 minutes on high pressure, manual mode (make sure your valve is set to sealing!!!)
11. NPR (Natural pressure release) or QR (quick release).  I use NPR if I'm not adding anything else to the roast.  I usually NPR for 15 minutes.  This time I used QR because I am adding.
12. Add carrots and potatoes (I like to fish most of the onion out, others prefer to leave them)
13. Put the lid on the pot and seal it.  Make sure your valve is set back to sealing!!!
14. Set the pot for 1 minute (YES, ONE minute)
15. Once the pot is done, QR and serve!!!

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