Old Fashioned Pot Roast. In a Dutch oven, brown the roast on all sides in half of the butter. Add the water, bouillon, onion, celery, salt and pepper; bring to a boil. Old Fashioned Pot Roast takes a little while to make, but the flavor and the tenderness of the beef and vegetables make it all worth the effort.

This pot roast is made from scratch with fresh vegetables and a rich brown gravy. It's old fashioned flavor is unbeatable. Chuck is an economical cut of beef that is pretty tough and fatty, but very flavorful, and requires a low and slow braise for several hours in just a bit of liquid, making it a great roast to plan for Saturday or Sunday dinner for most of us. You can cook Old Fashioned Pot Roast using 11 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Old Fashioned Pot Roast

It's 4 lb of beef roast.
Prepare 1/2 cup of flour.
You need 3 tbsp of oil.
You need 2 of stalks of celery.
You need 4 large of potatoes (can use new potatoes) if u use new potatoes you will many more than 4 ... maybe 8.
You need 1/2 packages of baby carrots.
You need 1 envelope of onion soup mix.
It's 1 envelope of brown gravy mix.
You need 1 large of fresh onion (minced) divided in half.
Prepare 2 cup of water or broth.
You need 1 of salt, pepper, garlic powder....

When times up remove your delicious, tender old fashioned pot roast from the oven. Transfer the roast to a serving tray. Remove all of the vegetable with a slotted and add to the serving tray. Pan Gravy; Transfer the juices to a small sauce pan.

Old Fashioned Pot Roast instructions

*** sprinkle roast liberally with pepper, and garlic powder. and lightly with season salt. I rub the seasoning into the meat by hand... the brown gravy and onion soup mix are high in sodium..
dredge roast through flour. fry in oil until both sides are brown. doesn't have to cook just brown. this step is important to help to form gravy or thick juice..
coursely cut up potatoes. cut celery into 2" pieces..
put all the veggies in a bowl with 1/2 the onion. lightly salt add pepper. hand mix..
put a slow cooker liner in your crockpot..
ROAST CAN BE PUT IN A BAKING BAG OR THE PRESSURE COOKER. If pressure cooker is used. cook on Med for 45 Minutes. if you use a baking bag cook for about 1 1/2 hrs at 350°. if you use a crockpot cook 8-10 hrs on low or 6 hrs on high..
the instructions are given for a crockpot. put veggies in the crockpot and put roast on top.. it will keep veggies moist. put celery and onions on top of roast..
put onion mix and gravy mix in bowl with water or broth...mix well until dissolved pour over roast and cook for designated time as posted in #6....
**** after roast is eaten I save the leftovers juice to boil egg noodles in. the broth can be strained and frozen for future use. I'll put that recipe on my profile..
SOMEONE ADDED IN THE REVIEW IT TAKES 8 HRS TO BAKE... EVIDENTLY THIS PERSON HAS NOT COOKED THIS. ... this roast can be cooked in a roaster that has a lid ... or in an aluminum roaster covered tightly with aluminium foil... for 1 1/2 - 2 hrs.....
**** several people mentioned the gravy was thinner than they like.... when u get ready to cook the roast add 3 Tbsp of flour to a 1/2 coffee cup full of COLD water ... put this in the bottom... the oils and broth from the meat will season this... in mine I mix the onion soup mix... gravy mix... and flour from frying the roast......

I probably had about an inch of liquid when I added it to the sauce pan. Buy a chuck roast and get started making the best Old-Fashioned Pot Roast with Vegetables and Gravy on the planet; maybe in the galaxy. Jackie Garvin is an Alabama born and raised, award-winning author and cook. She is the author of the popular Southern food blog,. Pot roast is just one of those old fashioned comfort foods.