Renate’S Unique Buttermilk Marinated Sauerbraten

Renate’S Unique Buttermilk Marinated Sauerbraten


1. Marinate Roast in buttermilk marinade as follows:

2. Buttermilk enough to COVER whole roast.

3. Add to buttermilk:

4. 12 whole pepper corns.

5. 2 bay leaves, crushed and broken.

6. 2 large onions, sliced.

7. Place roast and marinade covered in refrigerator for 3-5 days. Let marinade work and flavor the meat all that time.

8. At end of 3-5 days, remove meat from buttermilk marinade.

9. Discard marinade and rinse meat.

10. In a dutch oven, brown roast on all sides.

11. When meat is finished browning, make a new fresh batch of almost identical buttermilk marinade, but which will now serve as the cooking sauce.

12. 1 1/2 cups raisins.

13. 12 peppercorns.

14. 2 bay leaves.

15. 4 cups of water.

16. 2 cups fresh buttermilk.

17. Mix sauce ingredients together and place around toast.

18. Place roast and sauce in covered dutch oven or casserole pan with tin foil to cover/.

19. In oven heated to 275-300 degrees, slow cook the roast until it is done and tender.

20. 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.

21. When meat is done, remove from pan to a platter and slice into slices.

22. 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).

23. 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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