Thursday, February 19, 2009

The Best Slow Cooker Pot Roast



Do you have a crockpot? If so, don't you just love it? If you don't have one, you might want to think about it. It's basically a fix and forget it dinner lifesaver! You cook your meat all day long and it become super tender falling apart melt in your mouth! I've done a few recipes here, check them out, in the side bar.
I remember my first crockpot, it was tiny, and could just fit 1 whole chicken it it standing up. As our family grew, I insisted on a much bigger one, enough to fit the meat and vegetables.

This is a recipe for pot roast I found some years ago from my favorite site and have used it since. It even makes it's own gravy! I usually use a 3-5 lb roast and these veggies listed. You can use whatever kind of vegetables you like and size roast to suit your family.

2 (10.75 ounce) cans condensed cream of mushroom soup -or make your own here
1 (1 ounce) package dry onion soup mix
3 C cups beef broth -enough to cover roast
3-5 pounds pot roast (I use Chuck roast)
potatoes, quartered
carrots, thickly sliced or quarter the whole carrot
onion -roughly chopped

In a slow cooker, mix cream of mushroom soup, dry onion soup mix and broth. Place pot roast in slow cooker, coat with soup mixture, add vegetables.
Cook on High setting for 3 to 4 hours, or on Low setting for 7 to 9 hours.

~adapted from allrecipes

enjoy,




7 comments:

  1. You could fit a whole chicken in your SMALL crock-pot? Ours is way too small for a chicken! I always have to do math on people's crock-pot recipes to make sure it'll fit in ours, heh.

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  2. Lol, I guess I always bought small chickens. I just remember having to kind of stand it on it's butt and there was enough room for the lid to go on.

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  3. Have you ever tried this with Golden Mushroom soup? It is just as good. I love roast. This looks delicious.

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  4. I couldn't live without my crockpot! I use it at least once a week, even more in the summer time so I don't have to turn on the oven in the heat. :)

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  5. I hate to admit this...


    have crock pot.


    shoved somewhere in the back of a cupboard.


    lol.

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  6. if you have to watch your salt, instead of using dry onion soup, use dehydrated onions and just a pinch of salt.

    sandy who has had to watch her salt intake since forever!

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