Crock Pot Italian Pot Roast - Recipes That Crock! (2024)

5 from 12 votes

Course: Main

Prep Time: 5 minutes minutes

Cook Time: 8 hours hours

Total Time: 8 hours hours 5 minutes minutes

• 1/2 lb sliced baby portabella mushrooms
• 1 onion halved and sliced
• 4 lb beef chuck roast trimmed
• 1.5 oz pkg garlic and herb sauce mix you can substitute pesto mix OR italian dressing mix
• 1/2 teaspoon red pepper flakes
• 29 oz Italian-style diced tomatoes (2 – 14.5 oz cans) drained (or undrained for more gravy)
• 8 oz can tomato sauce
• 2 tablespoons cornstarch
• 2 tablespoons cold water

• Put your mushrooms and onion in your crock pot

• Place your roast in your crock pot

• Sprinkle your sauce mix and red pepper flakes evenly across your roast.

• Pour tomatoes and sauce over top.

• Cover and cook on low for 8-10 hours, it is done when your roast is cooked through and very tender

• Take your roast out, cut into large chunks and keep warm

• Skim the fat from the cooking liquid in your crock pot and discard the fat

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• In a coffee cup, mix together your water and cornstarch until smooth

• Pour into the juices in your crock pot and stir until combined well

• Cover and cook on high for 20-30 minutes, until your mixture is thickened, stir once

• Add your roast chunks back into your crock pot

• Cover and cook an additional few minutes until everything is heated through

• This recipe is an altered version of the Crock Pot Italian Pot Roast from Gooseberry Patch’s Busy-Day Slow Cooking.
• Roasts get tender with time. If your roast isn’t as tender as you would like, cook it a little longer. Our 5 lb roast was fall apart tender after 8-9 hours.
• We have used just about all of our 6 qt slow cookers to make this at one time or another, but Mikey made this in our One Hand Cook and Carry Crock Pot because he wanted to take it in to work for his co-workers.
• If you don’t like mushrooms, you can leave them out.
• We LOVE baby bellas in this recipe, but white buttons will work too. Canned mushrooms (drained) could also work in a pinch.
• As with any of our recipes, calorie counts and nutritional information varies greatly depending on which products you choose to use when cooking this dish.
• All slow cookers cook differently, so cooking times are always a basic guideline and shouldalways be tested first in your own slow cooker and time adjusted as needed.