Slow Cooker Pot Roast with potatoes and mushrooms is comfort food at its finest.

Let it cook all day in the slow cooker or Crockpot.

Dinner is ready when you are!

Close up of tender crock pot roast made in a slow cooker with gracy, cooked carrots and potatoes with a fork and knife.

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Knowing dinner is basically done before I even go to work makes me feel like a superhero.

Now, thats not a bad way to end a workday.

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Whats the Best Cut of Meat for Pot Roast?

A grey platter with slow cooker pot roast and gravy and carrots and potatoes in front of a red slow cooker.

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Leaner cuts of beef are best for the slow cooker or Crockpot.

Its best not to.

TheUSDArecommends always thawing meat before adding it to the slow cooker or Crockpot.

Side view of tender pot roast made in a slow cooker with gracy, cooked carrots and potatoes.

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Do You Have to Sear It?

No, no you dont.

But if you have the extra time, searing adds an extra layer of flavor.

Ladling gravy over a platter full of pot roast, potatoes and carrots.

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What Can Be Done Ahead of Time?

I often prep elements for the next days dinner before I clean up tonights dinner.

you’re free to even sear the roast, and deglaze the skillet.

A roast on a cutting board covered in spices.

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Just ensure you save the deglazing liquid.

Keep it all in the fridge overnight.

In the morning all you have to do is put it in the slow cooker.

Placing a roast into a hot skillet.

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How Long to Cook Pot Roast in the Slow Cooker?

How to Make Pot Roast Gravy

I LOOOVVVVVEEEEEEE gravy.

I mean I LOVE it!

Searing a chuck roas in a sliver skillet with lots of fond on the bottom.

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I think it needs to be on everything all the time.

I wouldnt skip this step.

It takes less than five minutes, and thick flavorful gravy makes this dinner even more delicious!

Pouring red wine into a a hot silver sauce pan to remove the fond searing a roast.

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What to Do With Leftovers?

Pot roast leftovers are almost (almost) unheard of in this house.

You have beef stew.

Red wine and garlic in a sauce pan to deglaze the bottom from searing a roast.

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Top with freshly cut chives.

Finally, theres nothing wrong with a grilled roast beef sandwich.

Add some marinated peppers and bit of cheese.

Pot Roast, Potatoes, herbs and carrots in a slow cooker.

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Butter that bread and slap it on a griddle.

You just won lunch.

More Great Roast Recipes!

Pouring stock into a slow cooker filled with roast, carrots, potatoes and herbsto for the best slow cooker pot roast.

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Rub onto all sides of the roast.

Set a medium skillet over medium-high heat.

Add the oil to the skillet.

Once the oil shimmers, add the roast and sear the roast on all sides.

This should take about 5 minutes.

Reduce the heat for the skillet to medium.

Add the wine, Worcestershire sauce, and garlic cloves to the skillet to deglaze the pan.

Turn off the burner.

Nestle the mushrooms, carrots, and potatoes around the roast.

Pour the wine from the skillet and the beef stock over everything.

Ladle 2 cups of the slow cooker liquid into a medium saucepan.

Set it over medium-high heat and bring to a boil.

Make a slurry by combining 2 tablespoons of cornstarch with 3 tablespoons of water.

Whisk the slurry into the boiling liquid.

You should see it thicken to the consistency of honey within a minute or so.

Once thickened, remove it from heat.

Serve up some pot roast and veggies, then top with gravy.

Add more salt and pepper to taste.