Anyone have a recipe for...

brookelynpaisley

Pot roast? We're wanting to make one for tomorrow, but I was just curious if anyone had a tried and true recipe to share. Do I marinate the thing? Seasoning suggestions? Anyone tried putting it in the Crockpot with wine? Or just beef stock? Necesitamos ayuda, por favor.

FutureMrsDudley55

If only Scooby were around.. I don't unfortunately :-/

Brie2010

Oh, the jokes.  Where is scooby when you need her?

Sorry, I'm no help.  I usually throw mine in the crockpot for 6-8 hours with some water and au jus seasoning and red wine.

danieliza1127

A good way to do it is just put it in the crockpot with a chopped up onion (big chops), potatoes, and carrots.  Dump in a Lipton Onion Soup Mix packet and about a cup of beef broth and put it on low for 6-8 hours.  Voila!

Another recipe a friend recommended but I haven't tried yet:

http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Slow-Cooker-Cranberry-Roast/Detail.aspx

You can also just season it up really well and add worcestershire sauce and beef broth.  Whatever you do, just use lots of seasoning and beef broth instead of water.  A pot roast can be bland otherwise.

laurenclaire1386

I don't have an actual recipe. But I can tell you how I make it. I season the roast with salt, pepper, garlic powder, onion powder, then sear it on all sides in a cast iron skillet. Then I put it in the crock pot with beef stock on low temp for 6-8 hours. I take the skillet drippings and add a little red wine to deglaze the pan, then a little flour to make a roux. And then add that to the crock pot to thicken the gravy some. (You can also just dissolve about a tablespoon of cornstarck in a little water and add that for thickener.) Then the last hour of cooking, I dump in a bag of frozen vegetables. I foudn this great mix of frozen veggies that has carrots, potatoes, and pearl onions that all go great with pot roast. Of course, you can use fresh veggies as well.

Nebb

Ive only ever done a roast one way - sprinkel onion soup mix all over, rub it in. Pour in around 1" of water, and baste as necessary. Roast covered at 350F - 1.5+half an hour for every lb (5lb roast would take 4 hrs). When done, mix in a tsp of bisto brown gravy sauce to make a gravy if you so choose and then eat every single bite. Its delicious every time.

MissLeahM

I use lipton onion soup mix. And I add about a cup of beef broth to the crockpot then I stuff it with veggies.

The only thing I don't like about doing it that way, is that, when I use the left over water/stuff to make gravy, I don't really like the taste, well that and the chunky bits of the onion soup mix gross me out.

Stackeye210

Pot Roast, cup to a cup and half of beef stock, salt, pepper, garlic, any other seasoning you like.  Emeril makes a good pot roast seasoning.  Carrots, potatoes, onions (sometimes celery if you're a fan, I'm definitely not).


Just remember if you put in potatoes to check the taste of the juices about an hour to two hours before it's done because the potatoes soak up the salt and I always find I need to add a tiny bit more. 

I love pot roast.

goheels05

You can use my venison recipe on a pot roast.  I put the roast in the crock pot, top it with carrots, onions, turnips, and any other veggies I might have, and then I top it with this marinade.  Let me ask Mr. Heels what the name of that sauce is  . . .

EDIT:  Dale's Marinade is the name of that sauce.  I use half the bottle on roughly 2 pounds of meat.

brookelynpaisley

Awesome, great suggestions ladies, thank you!

georgia_bride09

Lipton Onion soup girl here too. Only I've never used beef stock, only water, so thanks everyone for helping me enhance my recipe.

geri618

Brown the meat in olive oil.  Remove meat and saute one or two chopped onions in the same pot.  Return the meat to the pot and pour in one or two bottles of beer (any kind).  Add a good squirt of mustard (either yellow or spicy brown), salt and pepper, and a bay leaf.  Bring everything to a boil and then reduce to simmer.  Cook for about 3 or 4 hours or until meat is tender.  When finished, remove the meat and thicken the gravy.

You can add vegetables while cooking but I don't care for the way they alter the taste of the gravy.  I cook the vegetables and either potatoes or noodles separately.

klynn86

I used this one while in University, because you can basically use any tough meat and it still comes out good! 

Put Lipton Onion Soup mix all over the meat, then cover with a can of cream of mushroom soup and about 1/4 C of milk.  You can either do it in the oven, totally wrapped up in tinfoil, or in the slowcooker.  Plus is it makes it's own yummy gravy!  Simple but good!