Old Fashioned Pot Roast. Find a Variety of Healthy Vegetarian Dinners that are Sure to Satisfy You Family. 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.

Our Old-Fashioned Pot Roast is no exception! This recipe's been passed down through generations and is full of traditional, old-fashioned goodness. When you pull this easy pot roast out of the oven, the whole house will smell just like Grandma's kitchen used to when she cooked this old-fashioned recipe up for Sunday dinner. You can cook Old Fashioned Pot Roast using 11 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Old Fashioned Pot Roast

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

Old Fashioned Pot Roast with Vegetables and Gravy. This pot roast is made from scratch with fresh vegetables and a rich brown gravy. It's old fashioned flavor is unbeatable. Its comforting goodness is something a lot of us grew up with.

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......

As a bonus, it fills the house with it's intoxicating aromas while cooking. My stomach was rumbling waiting for this one to cook. Okay, it was roaring like a lion. This classic pot roast is easy to make and will turn out delicious. Old Fashioned Pot Roast Slow Cooker Recipe.