Mom’s Slow Cooker Guest Pot Roast
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Here is another one from my mom’s recipe box that brings back warm memories and is one delicious meal. Either with roasted vegetables for dinner, or as a pulled beef sandwich with juice for dipping. Game Day is near and this Slow Cooker Guest Pot Roast is perfect sandwich snacking!
Mom’s Slow Cooker Guest Pot Roast is another one I grew up with loving. It creates a wonderful aroma and the sauce is made from a variety of different items found in the pantry. I serve this with roasted red potatoes and onions. I have used different cuts of beef for this too, from Top Round to Blade Bone to Chuck Roast.
When making the marinade I like to whisk this to emulsify the sauce/marinade. It creates a thick consistency to coat the meat and penetrate for maximum flavor.
While this is almost a one pot meal, it needs a good pan sear first to get that beef all browned and crispy. The caramelization is required – at least to me. I think the browned edges of the meat add a great texture, flavor and is required when making any sort of “pulled” beef or pork dish.
This is fantastic as a lunch or party food. Simple pull apart while in the slow cooker and allow it to sit in the marinade sauce.
I don’t know what it is that makes this so good, but the combination of marinade ingredients like the fresh rosemary, soy sauce, mustard and that always-a-tongue-twister, Worcestershire sauce, is delectable. The beef has cooked down where the muscle fibers have exhausted themselves and melted away leaving beautifully tender and succulent meat.
And the aroma, hold me back! It’s a fond memory that I hope you enjoy as much as I do.
Just load up a toasted ciabatta roll and fill it up for one tasty sandwich. Dip it in the reserved sauce the beef simmered in and you are set. Game On!
Mom's Guest Pot Roast Recipe
Ingredients
- 3-4 lb chuck roast or blade bone pot roast or rump roast
- 1 tbsp olive oil
Marinade
- 1/4 cup red wine vinegar
- 1/4 cup olive oil
- 1/4 cup ketchup
- 3 tbsp soy sauce
- 3 tbsp Worcestershire sauce
- 2 tbsp fresh rosemary chopped
- 2 cloves garlic minced
- 2 tsp dried mustard
- 1 tsp kosher salt
Vegetables
- 4 carrots peeled and cut into 2" pieces
- 2 stalks celery cut into 1 ½" pieces
- 1 large yellow onion chopped
- 1 lb baby red potatoes
- 2 cups beef broth (as needed to cover)
Instructions
Marinade
- In a small bowl add the vinegar, oil, ketchup, soy sauce, Worcestershire sauce, rosemary, garlic, mustard and salt. Whisk to mix thoroughly and pour over meat. Cover and marinate for at least 1 hour or refrigerate overnight (best).
- Stove Top: Remove meat from marinade. Add tablespoon of olive oil to a deep skillet or Dutch oven over high heat and sear meat on both sides. Pour marinade over and cover tightly with a lid. Bring just to a simmer on the stovetop over medium-high heat. Simmer on low for 2 hours. Add carrots, celery, onion and potatoes. Pour enough beef broth just to cover. Cook an additional 1 1/2 hours covered (2 hours for a 4 lb roast) or until the roast and potatoes are fork-tender. Remove meat to platter and carve. Skim fat from sauce and spoon over meat and vegetables.
- Slow Cooker: Remove beef from marinade and reserve marinade. Add tablespoon of olive oil to a deep skillet or Dutch oven over high heat and sear meat on both sides. Spray inside of slow cooker with cooking spray. Add pan seared beef and reserved marinade, carrots, celery, onion and potatoes. Pour enough beef broth just to cover. Cook for 4 hours on High or 6 hours on Low. Remove meat to platter and carve. Skim fat from sauce and spoon over meat and vegetables.
Nutrition
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good lord this looks incredible!!!
Thanks Tux, I think it even tastes better 😉
Slow cooking is my favourite. Once the weather here in Sydney cools down, I’m definitely trying your mum’s recipe!
Slow Cookers are great to put together and not have to devote time too, just come home and it’s all ready for you!
Isn’t it funny how the weather and seasons are so different. It’s sunny here, yet the winds are insanely fierce the last two days here (34mph!) and sometimes a friend will say it’s raining where they are at and then way down under for you it’s hot. I tend to forget seasons are different elsewhere… Thanks Amanda, enjoy!
This would make a great sandwich 🙂 I love food that evoke emotions 😉
Definitely on both counts Farida! 🙂
Kevin this looks fab!!! And may I please recommend the Brevelle crockpot?! You can sear in it ON the stove top and then put it into the crock pot 🙂 Win win!
Thanks Mila! Actually Dave just ordered a Instant Pot IPDuo60 for my birthday – my ask, not his! It works as pressure cooker, slow cooker, rice cooker, porridge maker, steamer, saute/browning, yogurt maker and warmer. I’m excited to see it, but am intrigued with your Breville that you can sear on first.
Full disclosure: pot roast usually isn’t my thing. But this!!! It looks like melt in your mouth, big flavor pulled beef – I’m definitely in!! And what’s that slow cooker you’re talking about with Mila? Off to look it up…
Thanks Marissa. I love this recipe for the variety it gives you to create. Sandwiches, dinner with roasted veggies, rolled up in wraps, with scrambled eggs – it’s endless.
Mila’s allows you to sear, but I believe the crazy all-in-one Dave ordered for me does as well with several other cool features.
Gahhh! This pot roast looks incredibly delicious, Kevin! Your mom sure can cook! Brings new meaning to the whole, “I get it from my mama” saying. 😉 That marinade sounds amazing too! Absolutely perfect for super bowl! And I LOVE your black crock pot! I want one in black now! <3. Cheers, buddy!
Thanks Chey! I need to make another batch for this Sunday as it’s all gone. Oh, I got the black crock pot at Target.
Hey Kevin! It’s still morning and now I want pot roast!! I also grew up on pot roast, but not like this (my Mom hating cooking and was terrible at it). I also agree that it must be browned first for maximum flavor and texture! 🙂
I even posted of video on Instagram when I browned this one! Good thing you learned and paved the way for cooking with you family Dorothy! 🙂
I’m so making this pot roast for the Super Bowl Sunday. My plan was to cook some good ol’ pulled pork but I’m so intrigued by this, I’m definitely going to give a try.
Thanks for sharing Kev!
#WolfpackGameDayFood
I hope you give this a try Mike, it’s a tasty one! Every once in a while I switch it up from pulled pork and this one works. #WolfpackGameDayFood
Delicious…this is the kind of meal that I grew up eating too, but honestly, your version looks even better than my mom’s. That marinade sounds killer! I add Worcestershire to just about anything I make with beef (a trick I learned from my mom) and I love the depth it adds. I would be a happy girl with a nice helping of this and big bowl full of roasted veggies…for any meal of the day!
And thank you so much for stopping by my blog! I enjoyed your comment so much.
Pure comfort food and good memories, besides being filling and tasty 😉
Thank you Faith, I actually bought your cookbook maybe two years ago before finding your blog, so this is a treat to have connected.
BTW, making your Orange Sesame Seed Brittle (Simsemieh) again this year for a little Super Bowl Party sweet.
Oh, this is my kind of game day sandwich for sure! Ciabatta roll topped with a pile of this roast beast (thanks, Dr Seuss), and then drizzled with some of the drippings from the bottom of the crock pot? Oh yeah! I might forget to watch the game if this bad boy was at our party! #WolfpackSlowCookerCreationsForTheSuperBowl
Roast Beast Sandwiches! Don’t forget to hollow out some of the bread to get more of this delicious beef in that Ciabatta.
Now that’s a hashtag Dave, love it!
I love the eclectic mix of marinade ingredients. A bit of this, a bit of that, and a whole lot of flavour!
Indeed, it’s the aroma of the marinade medley that captivates me. Funny back in the’70s I think it was a mom trying to make something different and she stumbled upon a good mix! 🙂