This Slow Cooker Braised Pot Roast is sure to become a family favorite. It’s Sunday night dinner that can be made any weeknight with the ease of the slow cooker. Carrots, potatoes, celery and onions all blend with the pot roast for a classic pot roast dinner. Post may contain affiliate links.
Slow Cooker Braised Pot Roast
Is there anything more suited for the slow cooker (crock pot) than pot roast? I don’t think so. It is the perfect one pot meal and I can think of nothing I enjoy more for a Sunday dinner! There is something so wonderfully homey about pot roast. I eat a lot of foods now that I didn’t even know existed when I was young – kale, quinoa, and kohlrabi – to name just a few. But a good Sunday pot roast, that feels like it’s been around forever. It never gets old. Potatoes, carrots, onions, celery and meat all combine to taste exactly like I remembered it from when I was young. It is comfort food at it’s finest.
It doesn’t even need a recipe really, though I did glance at a few I found in Not Your Mother’s Slow Cooker Cookbook (NYM Series)
Slow Cooker Pot Roast
Ingredients
- olive oil if browning the meat
- salt and black pepper
- 3 1/2 pounds boneless chuck roast
- 3 stalks celery sliced into 1-inch pieces
- 3 carrots sliced into 1-inch pieces
- 4 potatoes peeled and cut into 1-inch chunks
- 1 yellow onion large dice
- 1 cup beef broth
- 1/3 cup red wine optional
- 1 bay leaf
- 1 tablespoon cornstarch
Instructions
- If browning the beef, add a drizzle of olive oil to a heavy pan and set over medium high heat. Salt and pepper both sides of the pot roast and brown in the hot oil. Cook for about 5 minutes per side or until nicely browned.
- While the roast is browning, place the carrots, celery and onions in the slow cooker. Top with the potatoes and sprinkle with salt and pepper.
- Place the beef (either browned or not) on top of the potatoes and nestle in the bay leaf.
- If you browned the beef, pour the red wine (or beef broth if you're not using wine) into the pan and cook for about 2 minutes, using a wooden spoon to scrape up the browned bits. Pour this over the beef in the slow cooker.
- Cook on low for 6 to 8 hours.
- If you'd like to thicken the sauce, mix 1 tablespoon of cornstarch with two tablespoons of water and stir into the sauce in the crockpot about 30 minutes before serving.
Total comfort food faceplant of epic proportions! Love it!
A great comfort food recipe!! Classic for a reason and my entire family loved it!
I’m totally in love with this! Yummy. Pinned and tweeted. We appreciate you being a part of our party, and I hope to see you on tonight at 7 pm. We love partying with you!
Happy Monday! Lou Lou Girls
This sounds so amazing! I love beef dishes!!
I do too!
I’ve been craving pot roast! Pinned this…
Agreed. Pot roast = ultimate homemade dinner. I’m so sad that my little girl hates it.
(Of course, she hates everything that doesn’t involve sweetener, so that may be the real problem…)
I agree with you Pam, comfort food at its finest! Pot roast will forever remind me of childhood 🙂
Definitely total comfort food!