Renate’S Unique Buttermilk Marinated Sauerbraten - cooking recipe

Ingredients
    3 lbs rump roast
    MARINADE FOR ROAST
    buttermilk, to cover roast
    12 whole black peppercorns
    2 bay leaves, crushed and broken
    2 large onions, sliced
    1 1/2 cups raisins
    12 peppercorns
    2 bay leaves
    4 cups water
    2 cups buttermilk
Preparation
    Marinate Roast in buttermilk marinade as follows:
    Buttermilk enough to COVER whole roast.
    Add to buttermilk:
    12 whole pepper corns.
    2 bay leaves, crushed and broken.
    2 large onions, sliced.
    Place roast and marinade covered in refrigerator for 3-5 days. Let marinade work and flavor the meat all that time.
    At end of 3-5 days, remove meat from buttermilk marinade.
    Discard marinade and rinse meat.
    In a dutch oven, brown roast on all sides.
    When meat is finished browning, make a new fresh batch of almost identical buttermilk marinade, but which will now serve as the cooking sauce.
    1 1/2 cups raisins.
    12 peppercorns.
    2 bay leaves.
    4 cups of water.
    2 cups fresh buttermilk.
    Mix sauce ingredients together and place around toast.
    Place roast and sauce in covered dutch oven or casserole pan with tin foil to cover/.
    In oven heated to 275-300 degrees, slow cook the roast until it is done and tender.
    Once during cooking (about 2 -3 hours, remove cover and turn roast over so that the other half of the roast rests in the sauce. Re-cover and continue to bake.
    When meat is done, remove from pan to a platter and slice into slices.
    Take pan drippings (buttermilk sauce) and thicken with enough corn starch to make sauce the consistency of thick gravy (start with 1/3 cup corn starch dissolved in 2/3 cup water).
    Pour gravy over the meat slices on a serving platter. Serve accompanied by your favorite German side dishes, such as potato pancakes and sweet and sour cabbage.

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