Learn how long to cook pot roast in the oven at 350 degrees F with this easy recipe for oven-baked pot roast with vegetables. The aroma will make you hungry while the delicious roast bakes.
Ingredients
- beef pot roast, fat trimmed and discarded: 2 pound
- potatoes, peeled and cut into 6 pieces: 3 piece
- onion, cut into 8 pieces: 1 piece
- carrots: 2 piece (cut into 1-inch pieces)
- stalks celery: 2 piece (cut into 1-inch pieces)
- ½ cups water: 3 piece (divided)
- salt and ground black pepper: (to taste)
- pinch garlic salt: 1 piece (to taste)
- water: 0.5 cup
- cornstarch: 3 Tbsp
- browning sauce (such as Gravy Master®): 0.5 tsp (optional)
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Stages of cooking
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Preheat the oven to 300 degrees F (150 degrees C).
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Place roast in a large baking pan; arrange potatoes, onion, carrots, and celery around roast. Dotdash Meredith Food Studios
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Pour 3 cups water into the baking pan. Season roast with salt, pepper, and garlic salt. Cover pan with aluminum foil.
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Bake in the preheated oven until roast is browned and cooked through, about 3 hours. Dotdash Meredith Food Studios
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Transfer roast to an oven-safe platter. Remove vegetables using a slotted spoon and arrange them around roast.
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Reduce oven temperature to 200 degrees F (95 degrees C). Place the platter with roast and vegetables in the oven to keep warm.
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Pour remaining pan juices into a saucepan; bring to a boil. Stir together remaining 1/2 cup water and cornstarch in a bowl until smooth; pour into boiling pan juices. Reduce heat to medium; cook, stirring constantly, until gravy is thick, about 5 minutes; season with salt and pepper. Stir in browning sauce.
