Slow Cooking in a Clay Pot - For the Best Pot Roast

If you enjoy slow roast recipes, have you ever considered using a clay pot cookware? Clay pots allows you to benefit from the wisdom of generations through an ancient method of cooking. Using beer, wine, spices or butter are among the ingredients for the most ancient-tasting dish, but since you can cook without adding any fat or liquid to your dishes if you choose to use a clay pot cookware, your end product still comes out tender and flavorful because of the clay's ability to release moisture into food as it cooks. This process makes it the most perfect for the most flavorful slow roast.

Cooking in clay pot is very much like working with a slow cooker. Modern clay pot cookware is made of various quality materials, including terracotta and sand. You will see some that are glazed while others are not. Whichever clay pot you use, one fail-safe dish to prepare is a pork roast.

Just one word of advice, you don't need to add liquid to the food that you cook in a clay pot. The pot will create enough steam and any additional liquid will cause the food to become soggy, losing its real flavors.

I can remember grandma cooking with a deep and heavy earthenware pot. I saw how clay pots require no special cooking techniques or adaptations of style, it simply sits comfortably on the back-burner seeking but a stir or two every now and then, but only allowing whatever ingredients she happens to have on hand.

Grandma's Clay Pots

 Personally, I have loved these earthy soups and stews. Now that I'm married, I believe it's my turn to take advantage of the comforting warmth they radiate in both your stomach and your kitchen, through my hand me down clay pots and the modern clay pot terracotta. 

Modern Clay Pots

A Terracotta Cookware - Your Smart Kitchen

Piral Terracotta Clay Pot

The flavor, essential nutrients and vitamins retained in food along with the ability of clay pot cookware to render the most natural flavors in foods makes it my most recommended cookware.