Ingredients
3 lb boneless chuck roast
2 tbsp vegetable oil
2 garlic cloves, crushed
1 cup chopped onion
1 tsp salt
16 oz tomato sauce
4 oz can chopped green chiles - undraine, d
2 tbsp sugar
1 tbsp all-purpose flour
1 tbsp each cocoa and chili powder
1 tsp dried whole oregano
1 tsp ground cumin
1 tsp ground coriander
1/4 tsp ground cinnamon
1 tsp grated orange rind
1/2 cup almonds, ground & blanched
8 boiling onions, peeled
3 medium yellow squash, in 1 pieces
1/4 cup almonds, slivered & toasted
GARNISHES (OPT'L
1 fresh parsley sprigs
1 cherry tomatoes
Directions
Brown roast on all sides in hot oil in a large Dutch oven; remove
roast, reserving drippings. Set aside.
Saute garlic and chopped onion in pan drippings for 5 minutes, or
until onion is tender. Add salt, tomato sauce and chopped green
chiles, stirring well.
Combine sugar, flour, cocoa, chili powder, oregano, cumin, coriander
and cinnamon in a small bowl; stir well.
Add sugar mixture, orange rind and ground almonds to tomato mixture in
Dutch oven; stir well.
Return roast to Dutch oven; cover, reduce heat to low, and cook 2
hours or until meat is tender. Add boiling onions and squash to
Dutch oven; cook an additional 20 minutes or until vegetables are
tender.
Remove roast to a serving platter; spoon sauce over roast. Arrange
vegetables around roast and sprinkle with slivered almonds. If
desired, garnish with parsley sprigs and cherry tomatoes.
Yield: 6 to 8 servings.
From _Parishables_ by St. Paul's Episcopal Church/Cleveland Heights,
OH. In _America's Best Recipes: A 1989 Hometown Collection_.
Birmingham, AL: Oxmoor House, Inc., 1989. Pg. 173. ISBN
0-8487-0765-6.
Servings: 1 batch
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