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Tender and Juicy Slow Cooker Pot Roast. This recipe is full of flavor and makes your weeknight meals a breeze. Simple ingredients flavor the meat, potatoes, and carrots. Your family will want seconds!
Pick a Cut of Beef for Slow Cooker Pot Roast
When you are cooking at home, make sure and remember to use your slow cooker. Plan your meal ahead of time and dinner will be ready without a lot of fuss.
This recipe is for a large chuck roast. The chuck roast cut of beef is ideal for a slow cooker because it has marbling throughout the cut of meat. This will help ensure a tender bite when the roast is finished.
We feed five in our family, with 3 growing teens. I look for a larger roast than we need. A 3 pound roast with marbling cooks down quite a bit. If I can find a 4-pound roast I can make a meal of sandwiches with barbeque sauce the next day. If we don't have sandwiches, then I freeze for a beef stew later in the month.
Ingredients
You need a pot roast, preferably a chuck roast for this recipe. A 3-pound roast feeds about 5 in my family.
Instructions
Step 1. Gather ingredients and chop onion into large quarters and bell pepper into large strips.
Step 2. Place roast in bottom of slow cooker. Combine garlic powder, salt, and pepper. Sprinkle over roast. Spread pepper and onion on top of and around roast. Pour broth around roast in bottom of cooker. Cover with lid.
Step 3. Set cooker to low and to cook for 4 hours.
Step 4. Check meat to see if tender. Add quartered potatoes, carrots and chopped celery on top of and to the side of roast. Cover and continue to cook for 1 hour.
Step 5. Roast is done when vegetables and roast are fork-tender.
Slow Cooker
For this recipe I use a 6-quart slow cooker. If yours is smaller, then you may need to cut back on the roast, carrots, and potatoes. I love to use my handy slow cooker whenever I get a chance. Mine has temperature settings and a timer.
I add the roast and seasonings first and cook for 3-4 hours. Add the potatoes, carrots, celery, and the other vegetables a couple of hours before the roast are done.
All slow cookers cook a little differently. My directions for this slow cooker pot roast are based on how mine cooks, so please adjust cooking time to how your's cooks.
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What to Serve With Pot Roast
Slow Cooker Pot Roast includes starchy carrots and potatoes. Consider adding a salad such as Apple and Pecan Salad, or just arugula greens with a drizzle of olive oil and balsamic vinegar.
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Juicy Slow Cooker Pot Roast
Equipment
- Large Slow Cooker
Ingredients
- 48 ounces chuck roast
- 1 tsp garlic powder
- 1 tsp salt
- 1/2 tsp pepper
- 1 bay leaf
- 1 tbsp worchestershire sauce
- 1 cup broth
- 1 whole onion cut in wedges
- 1 green pepper sliced
- 4 whole carrots cut in 4 inch quaters
- 4 stalk celery cut in half
- 30 ounces potatoes small
Optional
- 1/4 cup white whole wheat flour see notes
- 1 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
Instructions
- Set slow cooker to low to pre heat.
- Add pot roast to slow cooker. Sprinkle with garlic powder, salt, and pepper,
- Spread onion and peppers over and around roast. Pour broth around roast. Cover with lid.
- Set the cooker to cook on low for 4 hours. Tip, if your slow cooker cooks fast, you may need to decrease this cooking time.
- At 4 hours check roast for tenderness. Add potatoes, celery, and carrots. Cover and continue to cook for 1 hour.
- Cook until meat is tender and vegetables are fork tender.
Notes
- If you have the time, you can sear the roast by seasoning with salt, pepper, and garlic salt and dredging with whole wheat pastry flour. Place in a hot frying pan and brown the roast on all sides prior to placing in the crock pot. This will make a thicker gravy.
Nutrition
October 2021: Updated with new photos and updated ingredients and instruction.
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