Dutch Oven Roast

Our tender dutch oven roast with carrots and onions cooked in a rich gravy is one of our favorite low carb meals. You can use several cuts. We will share How to Cook Sirloin Tip Roast or top round to fall apart fork tender.

OH MY did this chuck roast dutch oven roast come out amazing! Yes we have made many easy dutch oven recipes in the past and still love it today. Tender and delicious, you’ve got to try this tonight.

Cast iron is the best! Maybe you have only seen these “old fashioned” pans and pots at your Grandmothers house and thought they weren’t for our generation, wrong! Y’all, they cook so so well for all the things, especially if you’re slow cooking large hunks of meat like this.

Are you new to this way of cooking in your oven? Well I bet you’ll be hooked after trying this and our dutch oven stew too. Grab a piece of quality beef at the store, or buy meat in bulk online and let’s get going shall we? 😉

If you are new to this method of cooking you are in for a real treat. Everything seems to come out so tender and flavorful. NO you don’t need to use this only when you’re camping, you can see here we are clearly not.

I am not a camper but love mine, pretty and all. Yes I have the traditional black cast iron version too but upgraded recently to this one that has a nice coating on the inside. A bit easier than typical cast iron cleaning your pans.

I mean it would depend on whom you’re asking. People rave about our dutch oven corned beef and cabbage recipe. They make it that way year after year and wouldn’t have it any other way. Chicken is great too.

Dutch Oven Top Round Roast

This is the type of meat we used to make this. It is a rather lean cut but slow cooked works well so it can be sliced easily. If you wanted to shred it for sliders or on top of mashed potatoes something with more fat would be better, like chuck roast.

You want to use a cast iron pot to get this done just right. This way you really kinda’ stick everything in there, bake, and enjoy it at dinnertime. It is best for large hunks of protein like you see here. I had this roast and thought it would be perfect in this baby the other night, it was!!

Can you add vegetables?

Yes. Of course roasted onions are a must in just about everything I make, and my kids love cooked carrots so I threw some of those in too. You could omit the latter if you wanted, they aren’t necessary. If you wanted to add potatoes I would quarter them.

Starting off on top of your stovetop you’re going to soften them a bit before searing the outside of your meat. That step isn’t a MUST either but doing so will keep the moisture in better and give the outside a bit of texture.

Yes we have used several different cuts to make this, there are so many out there to choose. Some are less expensive like chuck roast. This is just what I had on hand in the freezer. Of course make sure you defrost it before it’s cooked.

Do you need to sear a roast?

Yes you will want to do this step. Just remove the veggies you cooked down initially before adding your meat or it won’t fit very well. There should be enough oil remaining in the pot so you wouldn’t need anymore. Once both sides are nice and browned you’ll want to deglaze your dutch oven.

What does deglazing mean?

I explain how to deglaze a pot here and it is basically the same idea as how you do it in a pressure cooker. You know how you get a bunch of stuff stuck on to the bottom of your pot when you brown something? Well that is the good stuff really. FULL of flavor you want to scrape that off and into the sauce you will create. Just use any sort of liquid to do this and a wooden spatula. Since I added wine I used that to do this.

How Long to Cook Roast in Dutch Oven

Once you have everything prepped and in the pot with liquid so it steams you will want to bake in oven for 3-4 hours depending on weight and thickness. Ours was great after 3.5 hours but I kept the twine on so it was rather thick.

Check after 3 hrs. and remove when it is fork fall apart tender. Once you take the meat out, let rest on a cutting board for 10 minutes before slicing or shredding. Remove veggies with a slotted spoon and put aside.

How to Make the Gravy

Set dutch oven on burner on medium/high heat. Take out 1 cup of your hot liquid and whisk in 3 tbsp cornstarch until smooth. Then pour this thickener into your pot and stir. Allow to bubble and thicken. Use 1 more tbsp of cornstarch the same way if you want to thicken even more.

If meat is being served shredded, then put your shredded meat into the pot with gravy to keep ultra moist. Serve on a bed of mashed potatoes and add salt and pepper to taste.

Dutch Oven Roast with Frozen Roast

If all you have is right out of the freezer we have help!! You can read directions on frozen roast in oven here. Similarly made and will still have some gravy with it, just the timing is slightly different to account for the texture.

How do you know when roast is done?

Using a fork you should be able to shred pieces off very easily. Of course the thicker your cut of beef is the longer it might take to bake. So at hour 3 in the oven just take the lid off and pull the end with a fork. If it is still a bit hard to get a bite off then leave it in for another 30 minutes and check again.

This oven pot roast recipe is pure comfort food to the max y’all. Any way you slice it I bet it will remind you of dinner at your Grandmother’s house. Looking for other ways of cooking beef like this? We have a few favorites here:

Other roast recipes you’ll love

You can cook Instant Pot mississippi roast sometime. That comes out great with a thick gravy. Cooking pot roast with onion soup mix is great with some onion soup mix and beer!

We have made a slow cooker frozen roast as well in the past that turns out fall apart fork tender. Ninja Foodi roast beef and this arm roast recipe are delicious too. Give those a whirl some night too.

If you’re looking for what you should try in this pot next though, give our dutch oven whole chicken a whirl. It is low in saturated fat but full of flavor with veggies cooked together. Throw bay leaves in there too if you like.

Don’t want to cook vegetables in the same pot? That is okay, we have a lot of vegetable recipes you can make quickly on the side alongside your Dutch Oven pot roast like;