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This Slow Cooker Pot Roast combines slow-cooked tender melt-in-your-mouth beef chuck roast with onions, carrots, and baby potatoes and a perfect blend of flavorful spices in a rich brown gravy.
Tender Slow Cooker Pot Roast
Slow Cooker Pot Roast is an easy beef roast recipe with delicious results every time that even the novice chef can handle. The easy-to-make gravy mixes right in the crock after the vegetables and beef are done. If you like this tasty dish, you will love my Swiss Steak, Beef Tips and Gravy, Hamburger Stew, and Instant Pot Beef Stew.
What is Slow Cooker Pot Roast?
Slow Cooker Pot Roast and Vegetables are tender, flavorful, slow-cooked chuck roast, onions, carrots, and potatoes smothered with creamy beef gravy seasoned to perfection. It is such great comfort food and close to heavenly when served with warm rolls with sweet cream butter. It takes just a few minutes to throw in the crock pot to enjoy one of my favorite meals ever, with wholesome farm fresh ingredients.
How do you cook it?
A Pot Roast Recipe is easy to cook and one of my family’s favorite meals. It is a dump-and-go recipe of beef, vegetables, herbs, and spices that are slow-cooked in the crock pot or in a Dutch oven. You can use the juices to make a simple gravy when it is finished cooking. You can add everything at once, or if you don’t want your vegetables pretty soft, add them 2 hours before the roast is complete.
Ingredients in Pot Roast
Meat – chuck roast or rump roast
Vegetables – onions, garlic, carrots, and potatoes
Spices and Herbs – kosher salt. freshly ground black pepper, rosemary, thyme, and bay leaves
Rest of the Cast – olive oil, beef broth, Worcestershire Sauce, and cornstarch
Recipe Tips
Cook this recipe in a crock pot or Dutch oven. It is a little faster in a Dutch oven but not by much.
A Dutch oven is a large, heavy pot with a lid suitable for both the top of the stove and inside the oven. So you brown your roast right in the pan on the top of the stove, add all your goodies, put the lid on, and pop it in the oven. It is fantastic for anything slow-cooked; brisket, ribs, chuck roast, pork roast, and even soup and chili. The Dutch oven is inexpensive and works like a charm.
Chuck roast is by far my favorite cut of meat for this recipe, followed by rump roast.
If using a little red wine, choose a dry, bold red wine like Cabernet Sauvignon or Merlot. Make sure it is a wine that you would enjoy drinking.
A lot of recipes call for throwing in the potatoes and carrots at the beginning with the chuck roast. I find it better to let the roast cook for a while and then add the potatoes and carrots. This keeps the veggies from getting too soft and turning to mush.
Season with fresh herbs or dried herbs. The rule of thumb is for every tablespoon of fresh herbs, use 1 teaspoon of dried herbs.
What Cut of Beef is Best for Pot Roast
I personally think chuck roast is the best for this recipe because of its flavor and tenderness. Chuck roast has fat and cartilage, and that is what makes it so tender after it is slow-cooked in a crock pot or Dutch oven. Rump roast is a great second choice.
Storage and Reheat
Store leftovers in an airtight container in the refrigerator for up to 3 days. Reheat in the microwave at reduced power or on the stovetop over low heat.
To freeze, first cool completely, then store the roast and veggies in a sturdy freezer container and freeze for up to 3 months. Thaw in the fridge overnight. Reheat in the microwave at reduced power or on the stovetop over low heat.
Got big eaters? You can easily increase the size of the chuck roast and throw in another onion and a couple more carrots. You will not need to change any other part of the recipe.
Crock Pot Roast and Vegetables are tender, flavorful, slow-cooked chuck roast, carrots, potatoes, and onions smothered with a rich beef gravy that is perfectly seasoned.
Salt and pepper both sides of the chuck roast. In a large skillet, heat olive oil over medium-high heat. Add chuck roast and sear it on both sides. Remove the roast and place it in the crock pot.
Add the onions to the skillet over medium heat and cook until browned on the edges. Reduce the heat to low and add the garlic, cook for 1 minute while stirring. Add the onions to the crock pot with the beef.
Add the beef broth, wine if using, Worcestershire sauce, rosemary, thyme, and bay leaves to the crock pot. Cook on high for 2 hours.
Add the carrots and potatoes and cook on high for an additional 2-3 hours.
Remove the chuck roast and vegetables and place them on a cutting board. Cover loosely with aluminum foil. Whisk the cornstarch with water. Slow whisk the mixture into the crock pot, cover and cook on high for 10 minutes. Slice the chuck roast against the grain. Serve with the vegetables and gravy.
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Notes
Cook this recipe in a crock pot or Dutch oven. It is a little faster in a Dutch oven but not by much.
A Dutch oven is a large, heavy pot with a lid suitable for both the top of the stove and inside the oven. So you brown your roast right in the pan on the top of the stove, add all your goodies, put the lid on, and pop it in the oven. It is fantastic for anything slow-cooked; brisket, ribs, chuck roast, pork roast, and even soup and chili. The Dutch oven is inexpensive and works like a charm.
Chuck roast is by far my favorite cut of meat for this recipe, followed by rump roast.
If using a little red wine, choose a dry, bold red wine like Cabernet Sauvignon or Merlot. Make sure it is a wine that you would enjoy drinking.
A lot of recipes call for throwing in the potatoes and carrots at the beginning with the chuck roast. I find it better to let the roast cook for a while and then add the potatoes and carrots. This keeps the veggies from getting too soft and turning to mush.
Season with fresh herbs or dried herbs. The rule of thumb is for every tablespoon of fresh herbs, use 1 teaspoon of dried herbs.
Nutrition Disclaimer: All nutritional information shared on this site is an approximation. I am not a certified nutritionist and any nutritional information shared on this site should be used as a general guideline.
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