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Easy Slow Cooked Pot Roast Recipes

With such an expansive variety in easy slow cooked pot roast recipes, narrowing down the most essential ones with the right taste can take longer than the actual cooking time. The following pot roast recipes are some of the best in flavor, texture, and most importantly, simplicity.

By Salvador LorenzPublished 7 years ago 5 min read
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If you want to have an ingenious meal, prepared over a long period of time, cooked just right to your own satisfaction, Crock-Pots are your go-to.

Although slow cooker meals have some of the tastiest creations, especially when it comes to chicken breast or chili recipes, not all of them are as easy as their counterparts.

For pot roast enthusiasts, nailing down that simple, savory concoction can take ages, longer than their desired preparation time. To make your kitchen life much more enjoyable, here are some easy slow cooked pot roast recipes.

The only thing you'll be stressing is what to do while they're being cooked.

Pot Roast with Red Wine

The fabled Red Wine Pot Roast Recipe is an all-time favorite for its richness in flavor and simplicity in presentation. It's the perfect meal for a date.

Ingredients include three pounds of chuck roast, half a pound of baby carrots, one large onion, one pound of red potatoes, and a package of McCormick's slow cookers savory pot roast. Don't forget the one cup of red wine!

After tossing it in the crockpot, get two tablespoons of tomato paste and three cloves of minced garlic to really bring out that wine flavor. Cook for four hours on high and stir every one hour.

If you're a huge wine lover, try this among other easy slow cooked pot roast recipes for a classy dinner made quick and easy.

Pot Roast Onion Soup Mix

Soups and Crock-Pot meals actually go really well together, more so than most would believe. Here, we have one of the easiest slow cooked pot roast recipes that takes onion soup and blends it with pot roast goodness.

To begin, pick up four to five pounds of pot roast (your choosing), two pounds of potatoes cut into two inch chunks, two cans of condensed cream of mushroom soup, and one ounce of Lipton onion soup mix. The baby carrots are optional.

Take these savory flavors, toss them into the Crock-Pot for eight to ten hours on low, and if you need that extra thickness in the gravy, add a dash of flour to the mix. This Pot Roast Onion Soup Mix recipe is an all-time favorite for kitchens everywhere!

Pot Roast with Mushrooms and Worcestershire Sauce

I know what you're thinking... Slow Cooked Pot Roast with Mushrooms and Worcestershire Sauce... Sounds interesting. Don't fret, it's simple too.

This is also among the easiest slow cooked pot roast recipes that takes one tablespoon of beef base, half a pound of sliced mushrooms (preferably fresh), one large onion, three garlic cloves, one tablespoon of Worcestershire sauce, one third cup of all-purpose flour, and a quarter cup of butter.

Toss three pounds of boneless beef chuck roast into the slow cooker, then cover with a drizzle of Worcestershire sauce, a sprinkle of salt and pepper, and a palm of mushrooms. Finish it with six to eight hours of slow cooking goodness.

If you're a fan of mushrooms and Worcestershire sauce, try this recipe out for a twist on the classic pot roast specialty.

Pot Roast with Potatoes and Carrots

As one of the leading recipes in simple kitchen-crafting, the Pot Roast with Potatoes and Carrots recipe adds a little home to the mix. It's one of the best Crock-Pot recipes out there, and it's an original, too.

Go out to your local food store and get two pounds of beef roast, four peeled potatoes cut into cubes, one and a half cups of baby carrots, one large onion, one and a half ounce of dry vegetable soup with a final one and a half cup of beef broth.

Let this sit in a Crock-Pot for six to eight hours and stir when necessary. If you're really in a rush, try setting your Crock-Pot on high for three to four hours instead — taking easy and fast to a whole new level.

Yankees Pot Roast

You don't even have to be from New York to try this awesome, and one of the easiest slow cooked pot roast recipes.

The Yankee Pot Roast Recipe takes two large carrots and two large celery ribs cut into quarter-inch slices, two bay leaves, a teaspoon of dried rosemary, one sliced onion, three medium baking potatoes, a large parsnip, and a half teaspoon of dried thyme leaves.

Before throwing in your two and a half pound chuck roast, season with salt and pepper, marinate with a half cup of beef broth, and drop in your veggies. Wait about nine hours before removing it from the Crock-Pot, and voila!

You'll be singing Yankee Doodle to that fantastic slow cooked dinner.

Mississippi Pot Roast

To make this Mississippi Pot Roast Recipe, you're going to need seven easy ingredients. This wouldn't be one of the easiest slow cooked pot roast recipes if the ingredients were impossible to find, now would it?

Grab yourself a stick of butter, olive oil, a packet of ranch dressing mix and au jus mix, some peperoncino peppers, plus the most necessary ingredient of all, a three pound chuck roast.

Once all is acquired, pan sear the roast and add some seasoning for a few minutes, then throw it in the Crock-Pot with the peppers, gravy, and ranch.

After eight excruciatingly long hours, Mississippi will have finally arrived at your home kitchen. So simple, it makes cooking fun!

To Die for Pot Roast

This one's especially creative and different in terms of condiments and seasoning. All the initial ingredients apply, such as three to four pounds of chuck beef roast, five cups of chunked vegetables, and one large onion.

Listen to this: add a package of dry Italian and ranch dressing with a 15 ounce can or jar of gravy. That will have your tastebuds kicking with joy.

The To Die for Pot Roast recipe is one of the very best creations in the realm of easy slow cooked pot roast recipes, and will have you begging for more.

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Salvador Lorenz

Thinking in nodes of progress, futurism, science, culture, and existence. I experience life in a number of ways, pertaining to mathematical concepts mixed with rich flavors of art.

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