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Beef Pot Roast with Cranberry Sauce

Kitchen Stories
Anyone can cook
Difficulty
Medium
Total time
180 min
Cooking time
150 min
Allergens:
celeriacbalsamic vinegarwalnuts

There’s a quiet kind of satisfaction that comes from a slow-cooked roast, especially when the flavours deepen and develop over time. This NEFF beef pot roast with cranberry sauce brings together tender, melt-in-the-mouth beef and a gently tangy fruit note that lifts the whole dish. It’s the kind of recipe that fills your kitchen with rich aromas and rewards a little patience with big flavour. Perfect for a relaxed weekend meal or a special gathering, it shows how simple ingredients—handled with care—can turn into something truly memorable.

Ingredients

4 servings:

1 kg topside beef

1.4 l cranberry juice

300 g dried cranberries

20 g sugar

200 g celeriac

6 shallots

80 ml balsamic vinegar

40 ml gin

300 ml red wine

1 bay leaf

10 juniper berries

80 g walnuts

2 tbsp starch

salt

vegetable oil (for frying)

rosemary (for garnish)

Instructions

Step 1

Preheat the oven to 160°C Circo Roasting®. Peel and roughly dice celeriac and shallots. Heat some vegetable oil in a roasting pan on Induction Hob 7. Add topside beef, season with salt, and sear for approx. 2–3 min. on each side. Add celeriac and shallots and sauté briefly. Then, deglaze with balsamic vinegar, gin, and red wine. Add bay leaf, juniper berries, and some of the cranberry juice. Transfer the roasting pan to the oven and roast for approx. 2 hrs. Tip: Cover with a lid for the first 90 min. to prevent the roast from getting too dark, then remove the lid for the final 30 min.

Hand using a cloth to place a cast iron pot with food into a modern built-in oven set at 160°C.

Step 2

For the cranberry sauce, add dried cranberries, cranberry juice and sugar to a small pot. Cook on level 9 for approx. 5 min. or until cranberries soften, then take off the stove. Puree cranberries with a stick blender until you have a thick sauce.

Hand stirring a bubbling red liquid cooking in a stainless steel pot on a black induction stove.

Step 3

Remove the roasting pan from the oven and allow the roast beef to rest. Meanwhile, toast walnuts in a pan on level 6 for approx. 5 min. Remove roast beef and vegetables from the roasting pan. If desired, add some starch to the gravy to thicken. Cut roast beef into slices or chunks. Serve vegetables with roast beef on top and drizzle with gravy. Enjoy with cranberry sauce and toasted walnuts!

Hand stirring walnuts in a stainless steel pan on a black electric stove with a wooden spoon.
Built-in black smart oven with digital touchscreen display set to 180°C, integrated into beige kitchen cabinets.
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