potatoes with bacon and cheddar.
| Prep Time: | 15 mins |
| Cook Time: | 8 hrs |
| Total Time: | 8 hrs 15 mins |
| Servings: | 6 |
Ingredients
- cooking spray
- 1 onion, sliced
- 1 (2 1/2 pound) boneless beef chuck roast
- salt and ground black pepper to taste
- ¼ cup all-purpose flour
- 1 (1.2 ounce) package dry beef gravy mix
- 1 (1 ounce) package ranch dressing mix
- 1 (.7 ounce) package dry Italian-style salad dressing mix
- ½ cup water, or as needed
- 5 whole peeled carrots (Optional)
Instructions
- Spray the inside of a slow cooker with cooking spray. Spread onion slices in the bottom of the cooker.
- Pat roast dry and sprinkle all over with salt and pepper. Spread flour onto a work surface and roll roast in flour to coat all sides, using your hands or a small sturdy plate to pound flour into the meat. Place floured roast into the slow cooker on top of onions.
- Whisk together beef gravy mix, ranch dressing mix, and Italian dressing mix in a bowl, then add water and whisk until smooth. Pour over roast. Distribute carrots around the meat.
- Cover the slow cooker, set to Low, and cook until roast is tender and gravy has thickened, about 8 hours.
Nutrition Facts
| Calories | 385 kcal |
| Carbohydrate | 21 g |
| Cholesterol | 87 mg |
| Dietary Fiber | 3 g |
| Protein | 24 g |
| Saturated Fat | 9 g |
| Sodium | 1288 mg |
| Sugars | 6 g |
| Fat | 22 g |
| Unsaturated Fat | 0 g |
Reviews
I have been making this for years.
I also added some celery to give a little more flavor!
It comes out perfect every time! Tender and juicy.
In a 6-quart slow cooker, I substituted a can of beef broth for the water, added 3 good size red potatoes (peeled & quartered), and 2/3 bag of baby carrots. Cooked on high for 2 hours, and low for 6 more. Two hours before serving, I added about a cup of red wine. Winner!
It was easy. I don’t use carrots but cut up 2 large russet potatoes with a bit more water. I just tasted the result. Yummm is all I can say.
I’ve used a similar recipe before and you can’t go wrong with the 3 packets of seasoning. I was confused when I didn’t see potatoes on the list. It didn’t match the photo used. I liked that the chuck roast is seasoned and floured before cooking. This was the first time I’ve tried that and it turned out very flavorful and tender. I added small potatoes along with the carrots and in last hour , I added green beans. Great, clear instructions. Thanks for sharing!
It was okay-definitely the three packets were a concern ‘healthwise’. Easy to make. Worth making one time. Thank you for the receip!! 🙂
I actually got this recipe from a dear friend who brought some to us during a recovery from surgery about 5 years ago and haven’t made pot roast any other way since. I do add celery. It is amazing and the veggies and gravy are, too. Pure comfort food. Personal preference, if I have time: I salt lightly and brown the roast first and make mashed potatoes on the side. If you don’t brown it, don’t add salt.
I have made it this way for years and wanted to adapt it to an Instant Pot. I seared the meat on all sides first in the Instant Pot on sauté and then added the package contents to a cup and a half of water which I poured over the meat. Closed the Instant Pot and set for 27 minutes sealed. I let it sit for ten minutes and then vented. Came out perfect. Depending on the weight of the meat, you may need a little more or less time.
Great!
Tried this but a better one is basically the same but instead of the dry mixes and flour, just used a can of cream of mushroom with garlic, poured over roast on top, 1/2 can of water to get rest of condensed soup out and it was moist, tender and the best tasting pot roast ever. I always use a lot of carrots which doesn’t make any difference to taste. Just like cooked carrots.
I followed the recipe exactly as written it was way to salty for my family. Sorry.
What? No potatoes?
Very similar to Mississippi potroast except that uses a bunch of butter on top. It wasn’t too salty for us, but we like a lot of salt. The lady who said not to use processed chemicals is making an entirely different recipe, there are lots of potroast recipes out there, to each her own!
Rather than gravy mix and Italian dressing mix, I used 2 pot roast mixes. Added double the water. Also added small red potatoes, baby carrots, celery, onion. Cooked on high 4.5hrs. Came out perfect!
This was wonderful!@
My absolute favorite pot roast recipe now! Only adjustment is to increase liquid for extra gravy and add petite gold potatoes
Love this recipe!! I use 4lbs of beef and double the water, ranch, Italian and gravy mix to increase the amount of gravy as it is party of a roast beef dinner. Works very well, always a huge hit and super easy to make!! Love it!!
Honestly I have been cooking for 30 years. This has to be the easiest and most impressive turn out for a pot roast ever. I followed directions exactly and served with mashed potatoes. Cooked on low in my slow cooker for 7 hours. Perfect. Wow. Family loved it as well.
This was excellent! Lots of flavor. By far the BEST roast I’ve ever made! My family loved it!
Best pot roast my husband said he has ever had. I cut the cook time by 2 hours and it was still in a good place.