Homemade Kettle Beef

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Prep Time 30

Cook Time 4

Total Time 4 30

Servings

Calories 586

Ingredients

¼ cup of bacon drippings
5 lbs beef rump roast
2 tsp salt
¼ tsp of ground black pepper
1 tsp ground ginger
1 onion
2 bay leaves
5 whole cloves

Instructions

All ingredients ready? Let's begin!
To get bacon grease, first you will need to cook some bacon, if you don’t already have some. To do so, preheat your oven to 392F. Prep a baking tray with a lip by lining it with tin foil.
Place the bacon strips on the baking sheet. You can put the bacon down with no spaces or even slightly overlap the edges to save space. The bacon will shrivel up in the oven anyway.
Cook the bacon for 15-25 minutes. The thickness of your bacon slices will determine how long you need to leave them in the oven.
Once the bacon is done, move it from the pan and onto a plate or tray lined with paper towels to absorb some of the grease. Keep the grease that is left in the pan.
Add the bacon grease into a crockpot and put the bacon away for yourself later.
In a small bowl, add the salt, pepper, and ginger. Whisk to combine, then use your hands to rub the seasoning all over the beef.
Put the seasoned beef into the crockpot with the bacon grease and turn the crockpot on high so you can lightly sear the sides of the beef.
Allow each side of the beef to sear for about 10 minutes.
While you let the beef sear, chop the onion roughly.
Add a cup of water, the chopped onion, bay leaves, and cloves to the crockpot.
Turn the heat to medium low and leave the beef to simmer for about 4 hours. After that time, check and see if the beef is soft enough to pull apart. If not, leave it for another hour or two. If the liquid evaporates, add more water.
Once the beef is cooked to your desired level of tenderness, remove it from the crockpot and cut into bite-sized pieces. Make sure to remove any bay leaves or cloves before serving.
Any liquid left in the pot should have mixed with the bacon grease and become a thick, gravy-like sauce that you can drizzle over your beef before serving.
Enjoy!

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