Recipe: Perfect Grandma's Pot Roast

Grandma's Pot Roast. Grandmas' Pot Roast Recipe is made in a dutch oven, cooked low and slow in the oven. This is a more traditional way to make pot roast since back in the day there weren't such a thing as slow cookers or crock pots! Not to say that we don't love a good slow cooker pot roast recipe - because we sure do..

And I think making Grandma's pot roast in an oven can't be improved upon. Super tender, juicy, fall-apart crock pot roast is not as hard as you think! This slow cooker recipe uses a few simple ingredients to make the most flavorful (yet stupid easy) pot roast ever! You can cook Grandma's Pot Roast using 12 ingredients and 3 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Grandma's Pot Roast

1. You need 3 lb of chuck pot roast.
2. Prepare 1 1/2 cup of beef broth.
3. It's 6 of small baby red potatoes; halved.
4. It's 2 cups of baby carrots.
5. You need 1 of yellow onion; sliced.
6. It's to taste of garlic salt.
7. It's to taste of ground pepper.
8. You need 3 tsp of dijon mustard.
9. You need 3 tsp of dried rosemary.
10. Prepare to taste of salt.
11. You need 3 tsp of ground tyme.
12. You need 1 packet of Lipton onion soup mix.

A perfect Sunday dinner just like Grandma used to make. Get the SLOW COOKER version of the recipe here. Instant Pot Grandma's Sunday Roast Next, you sear your pot roast on both sides until browned. Deglaze the pan with wine or water, and then return the roast to the pan.

Grandma's Pot Roast step by step

1. Cut roast in half. Rub down with dijon mustard, dried rosemary, tyme, salt, pepper & garlic salt. Place roast into slow cooker. Put slow cooker on high..
2. Pour into slow cooker your beef broth, halved potatoes, baby carrots & sliced onion. Then sprinkle a packet of Lipton onion soup mix over roast & veggies..
3. Cover & cook on high for 6 hrs. As the roast cooks it will shrink, leaving room to move around the veggies half way through the cooking process. When finished the roast should easily fall apart. Serve & enjoy! 😆.

Was my grandma's pot roast any less traditional? Different Method for Cooking Roast: Pot Roast in Slow Cooker. There are a number of methods to make pot roast. Slow cookers, and now the repopularized pressure cookers, can be used to make a nice and tender flavorful pot roast. This tender pot roast is a hearty, "feel good" meal.