This Beef Pot Roast made with Idahoan® Mashed Potatoes is a fantastic, easy weeknight meal. Made with real Potatoes, real easy. What else could a mom want?
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Winter Blues
Well, it is finally Friday. Somehow, I have made it through another week. It is still the middle of winter and I’m just really having trouble finding the motivation to do anything at all. We live in the Midwest and you don’t really get to see the sun very often during the month of February. I feel so “blah”…
But, unfortunately, I don’t have time to have the blues. Our lives seem like they have never been busier. Our oldest son has always been the one with all the extra-curricular activities, but now I’ve turned around and my daughter is crazy-busy too. She is dance, gymnastics, and basketball. In all, just these activities take up 4 nights of my week. I can’t seem to catch up. The hours between them getting home from school until they go to bed at night is insanely chaotic. My husband calls it “the gauntlet”.
All of this makes me feel bad because this shouldn’t be how we feel about the time we have to spend with our kids during the week. I know that pretty soon, they will have their own cars and their own friends and their own lives and we’ll hardly see them. We should cherish these family evenings. But with homework, showers, sports, chess club and making dinner, it’s tough to really just enjoy time together.
Keeping Up With Weeknight Dinners
Making dinner every night is one thing that is always on my mind. I feel like it is my duty as their parent to provide them with a healthy meal for dinner. But with our evenings so busy, I’m constantly tempted to take shortcuts that I know I shouldn’t take. Drive-thru food here, a frozen dinner there… This isn’t how I want to feed my family.
I’ve figured out that meal planning is SO important when making sure are ready for whatever the week throws your way. I’ve been doing a pretty good job with meal planning but I sometimes forget that planning dinner is more than just picking out a protein, we need side dishes to go with it as well. There have been a couple of times that I’ve completely spaced the side dish!
This is why I’ve come to depend on Idahoan Mashed Potatoes. If I keep a couple of packages of Idahoan Mashed Potatoes in my pantry, I know that I’ll have a convenient, on-demand side dish without sacrificing homemade taste and quality.
Idahoan Mashed Potatoes
Idahoan makes their mashed potatoes with 100% real potatoes. I’m actually originally from Idaho, so I know that we take our potatoes seriously! You can tell that Idahoan Potatoes feels the same way because they deliver a taste and texture that has earned them the title of “America’s Favorite Potatoes”.
Idahoan Mashed Potatoes make the perfect side dish for any variety of dinners. The mashed potatoes come in several different flavors that are deliciously blended with real cheese and authentic seasonings. You can choose from Buttery Homestyle®, Butter and Herb, Bacon & Cheddar Chipotle, Roasted Garlic, Four Cheese, and Buttery Golden Selects. Any of these will go perfectly with your family dinner.
Beef Pot Roast with Mushrooms and Mashed Potatoes
This week, I was able to use Idahoan Mashed Potatoes with a dish that turned out to be a huge hit with my family. I made a Beef Pot Roast with Mushrooms and Mashed Potatoes. The Idahoan Mashed Potatoes made this dish so easy and they tasted fantastic with my Pot Roast and Mushroom Gravy on top. It was the perfect comfort food for a cold February Wednesday night!
I love using my slow cooker on these colder days because it creates a delicious smell all day long. It is also nice to just have one pot to clean up after dinner! This recipe is pretty simple and straight forward but delicious!
Ingredients
- 3-4 pound chuck roast
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- 2 cloves garlic minced
- 1/2 pound baby carrots
- 1 large yellow onion cut into chunks
- 1 8 oz package whole white mushrooms
- 1 packet 1.4 oz French onion soup mix
- 2 cups beef broth
- 1 package Idahoan Buttery Homestyle Mashed Potatoes (cooked according to package directions)
Directions
Add oil to a large skillet over med-high heat and brown all sides of your roast.
In your slow cooker add carrots, onion, mushrooms to the bottom of the crock. Place roast over the vegetables. Pour soup mix on top of your roast.
Pour beef broth on top.
Cover and cook on low for 8 hours. The roast and vegetables should be tender.
Serve over mashed potatoes!
Optional: You can create a cornstarch slurry by mixing 1 tablespoon corn starch with 1 tablespoon water and mixing it with the leftover juices to make a thicker gravy, but we like the juices as they are. We serve it over our mashed potatoes and add the juices. It is delicious!
- 3-4 pound chuck roast
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- 2 cloves garlic minced
- 1/2 pound baby carrots
- 1 large yellow onion cut into chunks
- 1 8 oz package whole white mushrooms
- 1 packet 1.4 oz French onion soup mix
- 2 cups beef broth
- 1 package Idahoan Buttery Homestyle Mashed Potatoes cooked according to package directions
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Add oil to a large skillet over med-high heat and brown all sides of your roast.
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In your slow cooker add carrots, onion, mushrooms to the bottom of the crock. Place roast over the vegetables. Pour soup mix on top of your roast.
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Pour beef broth on top.
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Cover and cook on low for 8 hours. The roast and vegetables should be tender.
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Serve over mashed potatoes!
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Optional: You can create a cornstarch slurry by mixing 1 tablespoon corn starch with 1 tablespoon water and mixing it with the leftover juices to make a thicker gravy, but we like the juices as they are.
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