Slow Cooker Beef Pot Roast
Servings 4
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
Instructions
- 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.