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slow cooker pot roast with carrots potatoes and onions on a plate

Easy Slow Cooker Pot Roast

Source: donuts2crumpets
The easiest pot roast is a dump and go meal. Just add roast, potatoes, carrots and onions and pour over the gravy then let it cook all day in the slow cooker!
Servings: 8
Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 10 hours
5 from 1 vote

EQUIPMENT

Ingredients
  

  • 3-4 lb beef roast with any extra fat trimmed away and discarded
  • 1-1/2 to 2 lb baby potatoes washed
  • 1 lb bag of mini carrots
  • 1 large or two smaller onions peeled and cut in to large chunks
  • 2 cans cream of mushroom soup can sub cream of chicken
  • 2 cups beef broth
  • 3 Tbsp brown gravy powder
  • 2 Tbsp Lipton or copycat beefy onion soup mix

Instructions
 

  • Dry your roast as much as you can by dabbing it with paper towels, then season on both sides with salt and pepper.
  • Heat a large pot on the stove top with 1 Tbsp olive oil over medium high to high heat.  Add the seasoned meat and sear a couple of minutes on each side.
  • Place the roast in your slow cooker.
  • Place the potatoes and carrots around the roast.  Put the chunks of onion on top of the roast.
  • In a large bowl, whisk together the cream of mushroom soup, beef broth, gravy powder and beefy onion soup mix.  Pour the mixture all over the roast.
  • Cook on low for 8-10 hours or on high for 6-8 hours until the roast is fork tender and falls apart.

Notes

A couple of tips for this recipe:
  • I like to use Chuck Roast, or London Broil Roast for this recipe.  Generally, the tougher the cut, the longer you will need to cook it..  As a note, marbling in the meat gives great flavor.
  • You do not have to sear the meat before adding to the slow cooker, however, I love the extra level of flavor it adds to the finished dish.
  • Place your roast on the bottom of the slow cooker, then put your vegetables around and on top.  Don't place the roast on top of your veggies.
  • If you are not a fan of cream of mushroom soup, you can switch out for cream of chicken, but the cream of mushroom has the most delightfully deep flavor and your family will honestly not be able to tell - there are no huge chunks of mushrooms in it.
  • For the brown gravy mix, I keep the large McCormick container on hand, but if you don't have that, you can get a small packet of gravy mix with 3-4 Tbsp in it at most grocery stores.
  • I make my own Copycat Lipton Beefy Onion Soup Mix that I keep in the pantry in a mason jar.  Click here for the recipe!