Melt in Your Mouth Perfect Oven Pot Roast (2024)

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ByLisaSeptember 29, 2016February 17, 2022

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This recipe for the Melt in your Mouth Perfect Oven Pot Roast, in fact, is the perfect meal. The meat is slow cooked in the oven with carrots and onions until the meat is fall-apart-tender and the carrots are tender crisp. Add creamy mashed potatoes to the plate and top it all off with the gravy from the pot roast.

There is nothing better than sitting down to the dinner table with a great meal. One that you have been smelling cooking for a few hours and drooling for it to be served.

For me, pot roast with all of the trimmings is that meal. This recipe for the Perfect Oven Pot Roast is requested a couple of times a month in my house. The recipe is one of ThePioneer Woman‘s and has not disappointed us ever.

I call it melt-in-your-mouth perfect oven pot roast for a reason. The meat is slow cooked in the oven with carrots and onions until the meat is fall-apart-tender and the carrots are tender crisp.

If you have ever wondered how to make a tender roast beef in the oven, then this is your answer. Using a beef chuck roast will yield the best results with all of the marbling in the meat. Roasting it in the oven at a slow temperature until it’s falling apart, fork tender is key.

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Melt in Your Mouth Perfect Oven Pot Roast

This recipe for the Perfect Oven Pot Roast, in fact, is the perfect meal. The meat is slow cooked in the oven with carrots and onions until the meat is fall-apart-tender and the carrots are tender crisp.

4.08 from 302 votes

Ingredients

1 3 lb beef chuck roast
2 tbsp olive oil
1 large onion roughly chopped
2 cloves garlic minced
6 whole carrots sliced into 2 inch pieces
1 cup red wine you can use beef stock {broth} instead
2 - 3 cups of beef stock or broth
1 tsp dried thyme leaves or 3 sprigs fresh thyme
3 sprigs fresh rosemary or 1 tsp dried rosemary
salt and pepper to taste

Instructions

Preheat oven to 275 degrees.
Generously season your roast with salt and pepper. Using a roast with some marbling in it will result in a more flavorful and tender roast.
Heat a Dutch oven over medium-high heat and add 2 to 3 tablespoons of olive oil.
Toss in your roughly chopped onions when the oil in the pot is hot and saute them until they start to turn brown. Won't take but a couple of minutes. Add the garlic, and let cook for about 30 seconds - don't let it burn. Remove the onions and garlic to a plate.
Toss the carrots into the same pan and let them cook a bit until slightly browned, about a minute or so. Remove to same plate as the onions.
If needed, add a bit more olive oil to the pan. Place the meat in the pan and brown it for about a minute on all sides. Remove the roast to a plate. Tip: Don't skip this step of browning the meat. You want a good color on your roast.
Using either red wine or beef stock (about 1 cup) to deglaze the pan, scraping the bottom with a whisk to get all of those wonderful bits of flavor from the bottom of the pan.
Place the roast back into the pan and add enough beef stock to cover the meat halfway (about 2 to 3 cups). Add in the onion and the carrots, as well as rosemary and thyme.
Put the lid on, then roast in the oven for 3 hours. The roast is done when it is falling apart.
Serve with mashed potatoes and some crusty bread to sop up all of the delicious gravy from the roast.

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