Use my grandmother’s recipe for pot roast and gravy to recreate the dish you enjoyed as a child. Serve alongside mashed potatoes and your preferred side vegetables.
| Prep Time: | 30 mins |
| Cook Time: | 2 hrs 15 mins |
| Total Time: | 2 hrs 45 mins |
| Servings: | 8 |
Ingredients
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- 1 (3 pound) beef sirloin tip roast
- 1 medium onion, chopped
- 4 cloves garlic, minced
- 2 cups brewed coffee
- 2 cups water, divided
- 2 cubes beef bouillon
- 6 basil leaves
- 1 tablespoon salt, plus more to taste
- 1 teaspoon ground black pepper
- ½ cup all-purpose flour
Instructions
- Heat oil in a stock pot over medium heat. Sear roast in hot oil until slightly browned, about 2 minutes per side. Transfer roast to a plate.
- Add onion and garlic to the pot; cook and stir until onion is lightly browned, 10 to 15 minutes.
- Return roast to the pot; pour coffee and 1 1/2 cup water over top. Add bouillon, basil, salt, and pepper; bring to a boil. Reduce the heat to medium-low, cover, and simmer until meat is falling apart, 2 to 3 hours.
- Transfer roast to a serving dish and cover with a lid or aluminum foil. Discard basil leaves. Keep broth in the pot over medium heat.
- Whisk flour and remaining 1/2 cup water together in a bowl until smooth; slowly whisk into broth until gravy is smooth and somewhat clear. Taste and adjust salt as needed.
- Pour about 1/2 of the gravy over roast, and pour the rest into a gravy boat for serving.
- If you don’t mind straining carrots from the broth, they go well with this and add a nice flavor. Just add them in before you cover the meat. I usually add 1 to 1 1/2 small bags of baby carrots.
Nutrition Facts
| Calories | 394 kcal |
| Carbohydrate | 9 g |
| Cholesterol | 158 mg |
| Dietary Fiber | 1 g |
| Protein | 47 g |
| Saturated Fat | 6 g |
| Sodium | 1152 mg |
| Sugars | 1 g |
| Fat | 18 g |
| Unsaturated Fat | 0 g |
Reviews
I have made this at least 10 times. Always comes out tender and perfect. The only roast i make now
I love, love, love this recipe! Roast, made with coffee!! Amazing!!
Not worth 3 hours of my time.
Very good
I very seldom rate a recipe even though I have found some great ones on this site; but this recipe is the exception. I have been looking for a great sirloin tip roast recipe with gravy and this recipe is it! It’s easy to put together and the gravy is thick and has a wonderful taste. I have made this on the stove (as per the recipe) and in the crock pot and both are great. I made the recipe as stated; however, I did sauté some mushrooms in with the onions and garlic as my family likes mushroom gravy. You wont be disappointed with this recipe. It is now my go to beef roast recipe! Thanks
Fantastic
This is by far the best, most flavourful, melt in your mouth roast I’ve had since my mom made roast dinners every Sunday when we were kids.
This was really delicious and my husband said it is the only “beef” recipe I should ever cook. I cut in half the amount of coffee I don’t like coffee and was afraid I would taste it (I didn’t). Also I mixed the bouillon cubes in boiling water before pouring over the meat. I didn’t have fresh basil so I put dried basil in but think I put too much (1 Tbs.) next time I’ll just put 1 tsp. I added sliced mushrooms during the last hour & the gravy was wonderful!!! Will make again.
I made this today with a small sirloin tip roast. Didn’t want to have to watch it so closely on the stove top. When I got to the simmer stage I put it into a 225 degree oven for 2 hours. It was perfectly fall apart tender.
I’ve made this 2 times now. Once in the stock pot and once in the slow cooker on high for about 4-4.5 hours still browning the meat in a pan first. Both turned out great but the slow cooker just made so tender and juicy and it just fell apart so nicely. I don’t the gravy but just use the liquid as is. The first time was too salty with the extra tablespoon so I left it out the second time and it was perfect.
Delicious. It took a while but worth it!
I made this for a crowd in my crock pot. I put it on about 9 pm and when I checked on it at five I thought “oh no”. So I cooked it on low for another 3 hours. I then pulled the meat and let it sit on warm. I fried up a huge mixture of peppers and onion toasted hoagie rolls put the meat and juices on the bottom of the roll then a pile of peppers then jalapeños cheese. Popped under broiler until cheese bubbled. The cooking mess was over by the time company arrived at backyard social distancing pot luck. Wrapped sandwiches in foil and put in cooler to keep warm so nobody had to get closer than six feet When I disclosed coffee was my secret ingredient everybody was shocked. This was a great way to keep everything clean and individual. Highly recommend
The coffee must be what makes all the difference! This is absolutely the best roast recipe.
I made this in my crock pot set on high for about 5 hours since I got started too late to use the low setting. I browned the tri tip sirloin roast in skillet as directed. Also added carrots and potatoes. The meat was tender and flavorful and the gravy was tasty too. I will probably make it again.
This sounded good so I made it, sticking to the recipe except for the salt. A tablespoon seemed way too much, so I cut it in half. It still turned out a little saltier than I usually like, but by no means too salty to eat. The beef was tender and tasty. The gravy was fantastic. The bullion cubes probably contributed to the saltiness. I’ll definitely make it again, but will cut the salt back to 1 teaspoon.
Absolutely the best roast with gravy! Made exactly as written and it is perfection. I took the suggestion of cooking baby carrots with the roast then removing before you make the gravy, they were wonderful as well. Used leftovers to make gravy fries like we had last year in New Orleans and the only thing missing was a trolley, the French Quarter and Bourbon Street.
It turned out perfectly, tender and juicy.
Keeping this recipe. It was SOOOO good. Made it as noted, only difference is I used a crock pot. My boys all loved it. Glad I used it, easy & super tasty.
Absolutely delicious! I made it exactly as written and am already getting requests for it again! Perfect for this nasty weather, thanks.
This was amazing, we had it for Christmas dinner instead of Turkey and it was a huge hit with the entire family. I did vary a bit from the original however, I added a can of Guinness to it at the very beginning. Made an incredibly flavourful gravy in the end. Fantastic ????????
made it for dinner tonight. I had a late start so only let it simmer for about two hours. Still turned out great but I will cut the salt in half next time.