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MOM'S ROAST BEEF 
3-4 lb. roast (cut of your choice)
1 pkg. Lipton's beefy onion soup mix
2 cans Campbell's Golden Cream of Mushroom Soup
3 onions
1 lb. carrots
5-6 medium potatoes
garlic powder
onion powder
salt
pepper

Heat a Dutch oven (this does particularly well in a Dutch oven) on the stove top on medium heat with 2 tablespoons of oil. Season roast with garlic powder, onion powder, salt and pepper on both sides. Sear the roast in the Dutch oven. When roast is browned on all sides, pour two cups of water in dutch oven. Cut the onions in half and add them at this time.

Sprinkle the onion soup mix over the meat and cover Dutch oven and place in a preheated 325°F oven. Bake for two hours.

Meat will be cooked at this time, but you want a roast that you can cut with a fork. Add the carrots that have been cut into three inch pieces (or use the bag of small already cleaned carrots). I prefer the regular carrots.

Roast for another hour, adding more water to the Dutch oven if needed. The last step is adding the potatoes that have been peeled and cut in half. At this time add the soup, mixed with 2/3 can of water and pour over the entire roast and vegetables.

Return roast to oven for another hour or until potatoes are done. Roast will be fork tender and the onion and mushroom soup will have made the most delicious gravy that will not need thickening.

Submitted by: Linda Wilson

recipe reviews
Mom's Roast Beef
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 Ginger PVM (New Jersey) says:
We LOVE Linda's recipe. The house smells delightfully of roasting beef. Her recipe adds all ingredients together, so nothing else needs preparing while everything is cooking in the oven. Can't wait to make this recipe again. As the outside temp chills in Fall, out comes the dutch oven for delicious meals as this one is!
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 Linda Wilson-Piccirillo (Pennsylvania) says:
Thank you so much. This was my Mom's recipe. Loved it for Sunday dinner or any time. Whenever I make it I envision our meals at her house.
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 Jo Watson (Missouri) says:
I've made this several times for dinner parties and always get rave reviews. It is really easy and let's me spend time with my guests. Only change is I rub garlic into the meat rather than use the garlic powder.
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 Anonymous (Missouri) says:
I made this one night and we had unexpected company. I thought there was too much "gravy" and i cooked the potatoes as long as the carrots, otherwise they would not have been cooked well enough. The meat wasn't as tender as I would have liked, I should have cooked it about an hour longer. However, everyone complimented me and ate everything so I felt like overall it was a success, and maybe i'm just too hard on myself. It was a nice and easy midweek meal, and its always nice to have more of those in the arsenal.
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 Gary S. Miller (Arizona) says:
If you want a medium rare roast, this is NOT the recipe for you. I went to the store wanting a Brisket, but they had none, so i decided I would make a Roast Beef instead. I got a 3lb roast. I have a dutch oven, Google searched and found this recipe. I love my roasts medium rare. I went by the instructions and after 2 hours my roast was medium, far more cooked than I wanted. So, since it was overcooked from what I like, I decided to continue on and hoped to end up with the "Fork Cut" roast the author professes. Weeeeelllll it was more like pulled beef and not as tender as I hoped, so it is back in the oven for another hour in the dutch oven. It was however very tasty!!!!!!!!!!
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 Ev says:
Thank you fort this recipe! I will add it to my collection of recipes that will be handed down to my daughters.
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 Jimmie (North Dakota) says:
I have used this recipe numerous times. People think I'm an awesome cook as a result Today it will be -21 here in North Dakota and I'm fixing this great recipe again. Thanks Linda.

 

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