Best Slow Cooker Beef Roast

This is the absolute BEST beef roast I’ve ever had! A healthy take on the famous slow cooker Mississippi Roast, this easy comfort food recipe has only four real food ingredients – no dried gravy mixes or packaged seasonings.

So apparently there’s this thing called the Mississippi Roast.

It’s a Sunday dinner recipe from a church cookbook in Mississippi that was shared online and has gone completely viral. New York Times, Good Morning America, the whole nine.

I love a good comfort food recipe, and I really love the ones I can make in the Crock Pot. But the original Mississippi Roast recipe calls for packets of Au Jus gravy mix and Ranch seasoning mix, which are loaded with unhealthy ingredients like corn syrup, MSG, and partially hydrogenated oils. No thanks.  

So I set out to make a healthier, real food version…and it’s AMAZING!

 How To Make The Best Slow Cooker Beef Roast

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Healthy Slow Cooker Beef Roast Vs Original Mississippi Roast

I’ve substituted a few cleaner, whole food ingredients in my healthier pot roast recipe to preserve all that amazing Mississippi Roast flavor without all the processed junk. 

Original Mississippi Roast Ingredients:

• Beef chuck roast
• Butter
• Au Jus gravy mix
• Ingredients: Salt, Modified Food Starch, Lactose (Milk), Hydrolyzed Protein (Wheat, Soy, Corn), Corn Syrup Solids, Autolyzed Yeast Extract, Onion Powder, Caramel Color, Natural Flavors (Beef And Pork), Partially Hydrogenated Vegetable Oil (Cottonseed And Soybean), Citric Acid, Molasses Powder, Disodium Guanylate, Disodium Inosinate.
• Ranch seasoning mix
• Ingredients: Salt, Monosodium Glutamate, Dried Garlic, Modified Food Starch, Dried Onion, Maltodextrin, Spices, Less than 2% of: Guar Gum, Buttermilk, Calcium Stearate, Natural Flavor (soy).
• Pepperoncini peppers
• Ingredients: Peppers, Water, Distilled Vinegar, Salt, FD&C Yellow No. 5, Sodium Bisulfite Added as a Color Stabilizer.

My Healthy Slow Cooker Beef Roast Ingredients:

• Beef chuck roast (from a local farmer if you can)
• Pastured butter
• Beef broth or stock (can substitute vegetable or chicken broth)
• Homemade Ranch seasoning (onion salt, season salt, parsley, dill)
• Optional: Potatoes, carrots, all natural Pepperoncini peppers (or homemade), Parsley for garnish

Tips For Making The Best Slow Cooker Beef Roast;

• If you don’t have time to brown the roast first, just season it and place it directly into the slow cooker with all 6 Tbsp butter and the stock/broth. You may need to add an extra hour to the cook time.
• Use homemade beef stock/broth for the best flavor. Store homemade broth in the freeze to use in dishes like this whenever you need it.
• Use the leftovers to make my beef and potato hand pies (cornish pasties) they are so delicious and easy to make or make roast sandwiches with a some horseradish spread on crusty bread.
• Make sure to use my homemade ranch seasoning, it’s simple, full of flavor and has no nasty additives.

Best Slow Cooker Pot Roast

This is the absolute BEST beef roast I’ve ever had! A healthy take on the famous slow cooker Mississippi Roast, this easy recipe has only four real food ingredients – no dried gravy mixes or packaged seasonings.

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Course: Dinner

Cuisine: American

Keyword: best slow cooker recipes, pot roast, slow cooker

Prep Time: 20 minutes minutes

Cook Time: 8 hours hours

Total Time: 8 hours hours 20 minutes minutes

Servings: 12 servings

Calories: 356kcal

Author: Dena Norton

Ingredients

• ▢ 3-4 pound chuck roast from a local farmer if possible
• ▢ 6 1/2 tsp Homemade Ranch seasoning blend double batch of my easy dry mix - click here for the recipe
• ▢ 6 Tbsp pastured butter divided
• ▢ 1 cup homemade beef stock/broth can substitute vegetable or chicken broth, or water

Optional Ingredients

• ▢ 5 Pepperoncini peppers (optional)
• ▢ 3-4 pounds Russet potatoes washed and chopped into large cubes
• ▢ 4 medium carrots peeled and sliced
• ▢ Fresh or dried parsley for garnish

Instructions

• Heat 2 Tbsp butter over medium high heat in a saute pan.
• Rub ranch seasoning into all sides of the roast. When butter begins to bubble, add the roast to the pan. Brown on both sides.*
• Transfer the browned roast to the slow cooker. Pour beef stock into the saute pan and stir with a wooden spoon to get all those delicious brown bits. Pour the stock over the roast in the slow cooker.
• Place remaining 4 Tbsp butter on top of the roast.
• If using Pepperoncini peppers, place them around the roast in the slow cooker.
• Cook on low for 8 hrs (or high for 2 hrs, then on low for 4 hrs).
• If using potatoes and carrots, add them during the last 4 hours of cooking.
• To serve, ladle the juices over the roast and sprinkle with parsley.
• Store leftovers in the fridge - makes great roast sandwiches the next day!
• Serves 12

Notes

Tips For Making Slow Cooker Beef Roast;

• *If you don't have time to brown the roast first, just season it and place it directly into the slow cooker with all 6 Tbsp butter and the stock/broth. You may need to add an extra hour to the cook time.
• Use homemade beef stock/broth for the best flavor. Store homemade broth in the freeze to use in dishes like this whenever you need it.
• Use the leftovers to make my beef and potato hand pies (cornish pasties) they are so delicious and easy to make or make roast sandwiches with a some horseradish spread on crusty bread.
• Make sure to use my homemade ranch seasoning, it's simple, full of flavor and has no nasty additives.

Nutrition

Calories: 356kcal | Carbohydrates: 23g | Protein: 25g | Fat: 19g | Saturated Fat: 9g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 1g | Monounsaturated Fat: 8g | Trans Fat: 1g | Cholesterol: 93mg | Sodium: 1424mg | Potassium: 927mg | Fiber: 2g | Sugar: 2g | Vitamin A: 3602IU | Vitamin C: 11mg | Calcium: 44mg | Iron: 3mg

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