Slow Cooker Pot Roast

How can you have a meal already cooked before you get home from work? Not to mention with the hungry and cranky kids in tow?

Do it before work, or better yet, the night before.

Slow Cooker Pot Roast

It's easy, it has the basic food groups, and when you get home, you don't have to freak out about dinner.

Ingredients:

1 3-4 lb pot roast
5 medium sized potatoes (yukon gold or other, depending on preference)
1 8oz bag of mini carrots (you can use regular carrots, but mini carrots will save you time)
1/2 medium sized chopped onion
1/2 tsp smoked paprika
1/2 tsp salt
1/4 tsp ground black pepper
1/2 tsp garlic powder
1/2 tsp rosemary
1 14 oz can of beef broth (or use beef bullion cubes mixed with hot water)

If you're making gravy (I strongly suggest you do)
1/4 cup butter
1/4 cup flour

Directions:

1) First off, you'll want to do most of this the night before. Just think, even if you're exhausted, it's much much easier the night before. Start off my chopping half an onion, and if you want the carrots chopped into smaller pieces, this is the time to do it. You'll also want to chop up the potatoes tonight too.


2) Get a medium sized bowl and pour all seasonings into the bowl. Set all of these aside until the next morning.



3) Don't forget to put the pot roast in the fridge to thaw out (or place in luke warm water)

4) In the morning, brown the pot roast over the stove on all sides. Place it in your crock pot/slow cooker, and sprinkle seasonings over the roast.

5) Put the potatoes, carrots and onions around the roast pour beef broth all around.

6) Cook on low for 6 hours

7) When you're home from work, your dinner is ready. However, if your kids won't eat food without gravy, you will have to do a little bit of work:

8) Melt butter in a small pot and mix in flour. Then take 1/2 cup of broth in bottom of slow cooker and mix in with butter/flour mixture. Heat on simmer until it thickens

If it's really delicious, it will get eaten very quickly. Or if you have kids like mine: They will actually eat their dinner for once in a blue moon. (My kids never do)

9) What if the gravy doesn't thicken? It's simple, just add more flour. I would sprinkle this in so it doesn't get too thick.

Serve & Enjoy!

Happy child!!!! (If you were curious, that beer bottle was from yesterday and is empty. No, the toddler didn't get any)