Italian Pot Roast Recipes

Beef Slow Cooker Recipes 

Italian Pot Roast

This pot roast is a very easy to cook dinner, even for weeknights. And it can form the base for other ingredients, or some of them can be changed to give you a different taste every time.

Ingredients

1 packet of white mushrooms, 8oz.

1 sweet onion, large.

One 3 – 4 oz piece of beef chuck roast.

1 tsp of pepper.

1 oz of onion soup mix, dry.

1 can of beef broth, 14 oz.

1 can of tomato sauce, 8 oz.

3 tbsp of tomato paste.

1 tsp of Italian seasoning.

2 tbsp of cornstarch.

2 tbsp of olive oil.

Directions

1. Sprinkle the roast with pepper and cook over medium heat in a skillet till it is browned evenly on both sides.

2. Put the mushrooms and onions inside a slow cooker and place the beef on top of it.

3. Sprinkle the soup mix over the roast and pour the tomato sauce and beef broth on top.

4. Cook on low for 8 – 10 hrs (cover on) till the meat is tender enough to shred easily using a fork.

5. Remove the roast from the cooker and tear into eatable chunks, removing any unwanted fat.

6. Add the cornstarch, tomato paste and Italian seasoning into a bowl with 2 tbsp of water and any fat that can be skimmed off from the broth in the slow cooker.

7. Slow add this to the contents of the slow cooker while stirring all the while till it is blended nicely.

8. Increase the heat to high and cook for about 40 min when the broth will be thickened.

9. Stir in the pieces of roast before serving