This meal of Company Pot Roast reminds me of a perfect Sunday Dinner. This recipe came about because I promised to make a dinner for my neighbors family, the mom was in the hospital and the husband and 4 kids needed dinner. I didn’t want to bring over my Slow Cooker Complete Pot Roast Dinner, though that recipe tastes amazing, I didn’t want serve brownish colored crock pot potatoes. So I cooked the just pot roast and gravy in the slow cooker, and cooked the potatoes and carrots separately, so it would be a more visually appealing meal.
Note- This makes just enough gravy, it you want loads of gravy, double the soup, gravy mix and water ingredients.
Company Pot Roast
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Author: Sarah Olson
Serves: 5
Ingredients
- 4-5 pound Bottom Round Rump Roast
- salt
- pepper
- onion powder
- cooking oil
- 1 (10.75-oz. can) cream of mushroom soup
- 1 (1.25-oz.) brown gravy packet
- ¼ cup water
- mashed potatoes for serving
- steamed carrots tossed in butter and parsley for serving
Instructions
- Sprinkle the roast evenly with salt, pepper, and onion powder. Set a large skillet to medium high heat, and put enough cooking oil in to coat the bottom of the pan. Brown the roast on all sides. Place into a 5-quart or larger slow cooker.
- In a medium sized bowl, whisk the cream of mushroom soup, gravy and water together. Pour over roast.
- Cover and cook on LOW for 8 hours.
- Strain gravy through a metal strainer if desired.
- Serve with mashed potatoes and steamed carrots.
This looks like the perfect comfort food Sarah! I love pot roast, but I’ve never really liked the onion soup packets to make it in the slow cooker. I can’t wait to make this for dinner!
Try using a can of French Onion soup instead and golden mushroom soup.
This dish looks lovely. I will give it a try.
Tom
I’m always on the lookout for a delicious pot roast recipe. This looks so easy to make. Thanks, Sarah!
Love this dish, looks like comfort food in a bowl….
This is a GORGEOUS pot roast! It looks so tender and moist! 🙂 Yum!
This recipe screams comfort food!! Love it!
Such a great neighbor to make this delicious meal while mom is out of commission! My family will love this recipe. Thanks for the tip on the gravy. We like lots!!
There something about a pot roast that makes me feel warm and cozy inside. This recipe looks just like that – something I know my family would love!
Looks amazing! My BIL always requests a pot roast when he visits. I think I will use this recipe next time and just plain make my life easier!
My son is a huge fan of pot roast! I know he’d gobble up this version! Such gorgeous photos too! Pot roast is hard to make look pretty! lol
would it work to put potatoes and carrots in the crock pot to cook with the roast?
I think it would do fine!
can I use a different soup besides cream of mushroom (family does not like mushroom)?
Can I use a substitute for the cream of mushroom soup?
Cream of celery?
Ran across this recipe today and made it for supper. Just my husband and me, but we like gravy, so I doubled it. My husband is a plain old meat and potatoes man, but he ate every single bite and said it was really good! Thank you so much.
What can be used in place of Cream of Mushroom Soup? I’m allergic to mushrooms. Thanks.
cream of celery works fine