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The Best Comfort Food Roast Beef

A wonderful recipe for a "pot roast" with potatoes and carrots that is a perfect comfort food meal and great foundation for a beef stew.
5 from 3 votes
Print Recipe
Prep Time 15 minutes
Total Time 5 hours 15 minutes
Course Main Course
Cuisine American

Equipment

  • Dutch oven or 9 x 13 dish
  • cover for dutch oven or foil for dish
  • paring knife
  • can opener

Ingredients
  

  • 1 beef roast your choice on size and cut of chuck roast
  • potatoes, peeled and quartered
  • carrots, peeled
  • 1 can beefy mushroom soup
  • 1 package beefy onion dry soup mix
  • salt and pepper to taste
  • 1 onion, optional

Instructions
 

  • Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
  • Place sliced onions, if desired in bottom of dutch oven or baking dish.
  • Add roast on top of onions.
  • Surround roast with peeled/quartered potatoes and carrots.
  • Sprinkle with salt and pepper.
  • Spread one can of beefy mushroom soup over roast.
  • Sprinkle one package of beefy onion soup over the top of the roast and vegetables.
  • Cover dish- either with lid or tightly with foil.
  • Bake for 30 minutes at 350 and then reduce the heat to 275 degrees for about 5 hours...until the meat is tender and falls apart.
  • Serve with a salad and your favorite bread for a perfect comfort food meal!
  • Place the leftovers--if there are any--in a container in the refrigerator to make the best beef stew or hearty soup later!

Notes

This is the BEST and easiest roast or "pot roast" version that I have used for decades. It produces a tender roast with potatoes and carrots that has the perfect amount of seasoning and flavor. 
The KEY to this is to cook it low and slow...you just can't cook it less...it will not be the tender roast that you want. 
***TIP: I often will use a bag of peeled baby carrots to save a bit of time with this recipe. I also add as many potatoes and carrots as I can so that there will be enough for the soup or stew with the leftovers.
**If you have leftovers, they are the perfect foundation for a hearty beef stew or soup! Perfect for stretching the budget...we get a great "pot roast" meal before a beef stew.  Depending on the size of your roast, we can get a meal for 4 on the roast and another round of 4-6 servings for the stew with one recipe. Perfect for not tiring of the same meal and stretching the budget a bit.
Enjoy!
Keyword beef roast, comfort food, pot roast, roast