Slow Cooker Pot Roast Recipe and Tips

This Slow Cooker Pot Roast is so simple to make. And it makes my life so much easier. I make it a day or two ahead of time and reheat it the day I want to eat it with our extended family members. Way less stress on the day of the meal! So, let's make your life a little simpler too with my slow cooker pot roast recipe and helpful tips. 

Tender pot roast and veggies

Making pot roast at 5:56 a.m. Friday morning to serve for dinner Sunday evening

Serves up to 10 people. But it's great as a leftover meal if you're feeding fewer than 10 people. A lot goes into this dish, so I bought a 6 quart slow cooker to make this meal in. The main reason I love this meal is that the ingredients are easy to find, and there are only 6 ingredients needed! Since this is a dump dish, I serve it with Pillsbury crescent rolls. Because nothing else is needed.

Slow Cooker Pot Roast Ingredients

• ~2 lbs of Lean Beef Stew cubes
• Small bag of small (bite-size) white potatoes 
• Small bag of baby-cut carrots 
• Small onion
• 1 packet of Pot Roast seasoning
• 32 oz. carton beef broth

Slow Cooker Pot Roast Directions

• Chop the potatoes in half
• Chop the baby-cut carrots into smaller sections
• Chop the onion

• Put the chopped veggies into the slow cooker 

• Toss the meat into the slow cooker
• Add the pot roast seasoning

Lean beef stew meat

Seasoning added

• Stir the meat, veggies, and seasoning together

• Add the beef broth

• Set crockpot on high for 6 hours or on low for at least 8 hours

Slow Cooker Pot Roast Tips

1. Chopping the carrots and potatoes into smaller chunks helps them absorb the broth and seasoning better, which also makes them more tender.
2. I choose to cook the pot roast for 6 hours on high instead of 4 hours on high to provide the most tender meat and veggies. Six hours renders out most of the fat, adding even more flavor to the meal, while also making the meat more tender. 
3. Using beef broth instead of water in the pot roast adds more flavor.
4. Mixing the meat, veggies, and seasoning thoroughly BEFORE adding the broth ensures that the flavor is going to be in every bite.
5. Using beef stew cubed meat makes the job simpler than manually chopping pot roast meat slabs to fit into the slow cooker. A real time-saver! And FYI, I don't thicken the broth after cooking, so that's why I call it pot roast instead of beef stew. 🌞
6. The next time-saving tip can be used with any slow cooker meal. Use a slow cooker liner to dump the contents into to eliminate the mess inside your crockpot.

Slow Cooker Review

I am not getting paid for this review. I just like to provide a review for items that work well for me. And for this meal and other larger slow cooker meals, I use my Pioneer Woman 6 quart slow cooker. Also, the meat and veggies cook evenly, and they are very tender. This slow cooker also has the option to snap the lid shut if you need to transport the contents. You don't need to snap it shut for cooking purposes.

The slow cooker is very heavy and large. That wasn't a drawback for me, but it is something to consider if you don't have storage space. I actually put my 2 smaller, average-sized slow cookers on top of my upper kitchen cabinets to make room for this slow cooker inside a ground-level cabinet.

Enjoy!

Patricia