Best 5 Old Fashioned Pot Roast With Herb Dumplings Recipes

OLD FASHIONED POT ROAST

Steps:

• Preheat your oven to 350 degrees.
• Heat the Dutch oven on medium heat until it is hot. Add a little oil of choice and heat that too.
• Sear both sides of your chuck roast, about five minutes on each side. Just brown it.
• Remove the roast from the pan and set aside on a plate.
• Add the chopped onion and celery to the oil and juices in the pan. Cook for a few minutes while stirring. These will mostly dissolve during the cooking of the roast but they add tons of flavor.
• Add the roast back into the pan and add 1/2 cup of water or beef broth and cover.
• Place the Dutch oven in the oven.
• Cook for about two hours at 350 degrees.
• After two hours add peeled and quartered russet potatoes. The size of your pot will determine how many you can add. But allow about ½- 1 potato for each person.
• Cook for another hour. Remove pan from oven and check for doneness in potatoes. They should be tender and cooked through.
• Check that the roast is done. It should pull apart easily with a fork. If it needs to cook more, remove potatoes and return to the oven for another half an hour.
• Or if the roast is done and the potatoes aren't, remove the roast and cook the potatoes for more time.
• When the roast and potatoes are both done cooking, let them rest in the pan until ready to serve to keep them warm.
• Granny recommends cooking the carrots separately to retain their color and flavor. This is how to do it.
• Peel the carrots, and slice off tip and the stem. Cut in half, then cut each half into about four carrot sticks.
• Place carrots in saucepan with a small amount of water. Add a little salt and about a teaspoon of sugar. Cook until tender but not too soft, about 10 minutes.
• To serve, place the pot roast in the center of a platter and surround with the potatoes and carrots.

MOM'S HEARTY BEEF STEW WITH DUMPLINGS

Steps:

• Heat the olive oil in a large heavy pot or Dutch oven over medium-high heat until the oil is shimmering, and place the onion and beef into the hot oil. Sprinkle with 1 teaspoon of the steak seasoning, stir the meat and onions well, and sprinkle with 1 more teaspoon of seasoning. Add the celery, and cook and stir until the meat is browned, about 10 minutes.
• Pour in 2 cups of water to just cover the meat, onion, and celery, bring to a boil, and stir and scrape the browned bits of flavor from the bottom of the pan. Cover, reduce heat, and simmer until the beef is very tender, about 2 hours. Remove the meat and celery pieces from the pan, set the meat aside, and discard the celery.
• In a bowl, whisk together the gravy mix with 4 cups of water. Add the mixture to the juices in the pot, bring to a boil, and stir the meat back into the gravy mixture. Stir in the turnip and carrots, cover, and simmer for 20 minutes. Stir in the potatoes, cover, and simmer an additional 20 minutes.
• To make dumplings, mix the flour, baking powder, and salt in a bowl. Cut the shortening into the flour mixture with a pastry cutter or two knives until the mixture looks crumbly. Pour in the milk, and lightly stir the mixture just until it combines to form a dough.
• Remove 2 cups of gravy from the pot, and reserve. Drop the dumplings by heaping tablespoon onto the meat and vegetables in the pot, cover, and simmer for 20 minutes. Do not peek until the time is up. Pour the reserved gravy back over the dumplings, stir lightly, and serve.

HERBED POT ROAST

Steps:

• Combine seasonings; sprinkle over meat. Add broth and bring to a boil. , Cover and bake at 325° for 2 hours, basting occasionally. Add the carrots, potatoes, onion and water. , Cover and bake for 1 hour longer or until beef and vegetables are tender. Thicken pan juices for gravy if desired.

OLD-FASHIONED POT ROAST

Steps:

• Sprinkle the roast with 1 tablespoon flour. 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. Reduce heat, cover and simmer for 1 hour. , Add carrots; cover and simmer 45-60 minutes longer or until meat is tender. Remove meat and carrots to a serving platter and keep warm. Strain cooking juices; set aside. , In the same Dutch oven, melt remaining butter. Stir in remaining flour; cook and stir until bubbly. Add 2 cups of the cooking juices and blend until smooth. Cook and stir until thickened; add additional cooking juices until gravy has desired consistency.

OLD-FASHIONED POT ROAST WITH HERB DUMPLINGS

Steps:

• 1. Preheat oven to 325 degrees.
• 2. Trim excess fat from the chuck roast.
• 3. Dredge the roast with flour and season with salt and pepper.
• 4. Place a heavy-bottomed casserole over medium heat and add the oil.
• 5. When hot, add the meat and brown well on all sides.
• 6. Remove the meat; then add the carrots and onions and cook until browned.
• 7. Return the meat to the pot; add the stock, wine, thyme and bay leaf.
• 8. When the liquid comes to a simmer, cover the pot and place on the lower shelf of the preheated oven.
• 9. Bake for about 2 hours, turning the meat once or twice during cooking.
• 10. Toss the prepared vegetables with the olive oil or fat and season with salt and pepper.
• 11. About 40 minutes before serving, place the vegetables in a roasting pan, put in the oven and roast until they are tender and lightly browned.
• 12. When the meat is tender, remove to a platter and keep warm.
• 13. Strain the juices from the pot and skim off the fat.
• 14. Return the juices to the pot and cook over high heat until reduced to about half.
• 15. Reduce heat to a simmer; add dumplings and cook as directed.
• 16. Surround the roast with the vegetables and the dumplings.
• 17. Pour the remaining juices from the pot into a sauce boat, spoon a little over the meat before serving.
• 18. Herb Dumplings: Cut shortening into flour, herb, baking powder and salt in medium bowl, using pastry blender or crisscrossing 2 knives, until mixture looks like fine crumbs.
• 19. Stir in milk.
• 20. Drop dough by 10 spoonfuls onto stew (do not drop directly into liquid).
• 21. Cook uncovered 10 minutes.
• 22. Cover and cook 10 minutes longer.
• 23. Note: If using self-rising flour, omit baking powder and salt.