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Crock Pot Chuck Roast with Vegetables

Chuck Roast Crock Pot Recipe

BY: Michele
PUBLISHED: Dec 5, 2017
UPDATED: Apr 16, 2025
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This easy Crock Pot Chuck Roast or Pot Roast or Beef Roast recipe, with roasted potatoes, carrots, and onions, is so juicy, tender, and flavorful, no one would ever believe how easy it is to make dinner in the slow cooker!  

Crock Pot Chuck Roast with Vegetables

This Chuck Roast makes such a delicious, hearty meal that everyone loves. My husband, AKA, the dishwasher, loves this Crock Pot Chuck Roast because it is a one-pot meal. The entire dinner cooks together in the slow cooker.

Table of Contents
  • How To Make Chuck Roast In Crock Pot
  • What is a Crock Pot Chuck Roast?
  • What Are Similar Recipes To the Crock Pot Chuck Roast?
  • What Makes This Crock Pot Chuck Roast Recipe Work?
  • What Are The Ingredients For A Crock Pot Chuck Roast?
  • How Do You Make A Crock Pot Chuck Roast?
  • Tips For The Perfect Chuck Roast or Pot Roast
  • Do you have to brown a roast before putting it in the crockpot?
  • Do you add water when cooking a roast in a crock pot?
  • What Kind Of Roast Is Good For Pot Roast
  • What To Cook With The Chuck Roast
  • What To Serve With The Chuck Roast
  • How To Store Leftover Chuck Roast?
  • Looking For More Crock Pot (Slow Cooker) Recipes?
  • Other Beef Recipes
  • Recipe
  • Reviews

How To Make Chuck Roast In Crock Pot

I love my slow cooker, as you can tell by all my slow cooker recipes! I use it all year round, including the summer, when it is too hot to grill and in the winter when it is too cold to go outside.  It is so easy to throw all the ingredients in the crockpot and then turn it on before I go to work and let it do its magic while I am gone.

The best part is coming home to dinner that it is already cooked and ready to be served, and the house smells incredible. If you were not hungry before you got home, you will be after you smell the wonderful aroma from this incredible Crock Pot Chuck Roast.

What is a Crock Pot Chuck Roast?

This Crock Pot Chuck Roast is the ultimate comfort food. It is like the name says. It is a chuck roast (or pot roast) cooked in a slow cooker or Crock-Pot with carrots, onions, and potatoes, and you can make a gravy from the drippings.

Growing up I can’t count the Sunday suppers we had with a pot roast as the main course. It was always juicy, tender, and full of flavor because my Dad loved to add lots of seasoning and let it slow cook until it fell apart with just a fork.

Since my Dad was a meat and potatoes man, this Crock Pot Chuck Roast would have been one of his favorite meals.  For him, dinner meant meat, specifically beef, and potatoes. He didn’t need anything else.

I have so many good memories of those Sunday family dinners, and each time I make this Crock Pot Chuck Roast and I smell it cooking, all those wonderful memories come flooding back.

What Are Similar Recipes To the Crock Pot Chuck Roast?

This is one of our favorite roasts, along with the Cajun Herb Prime Rib Roast, and this Juicy Pot Roast with Italian and Ranch Dressing, and Zesty Ranch Slow Cooker Carnitas.

Crock Pot Chuck Roast with Vegetables

What Makes This Crock Pot Chuck Roast Recipe Work?

  1. Slow Cookings Brings Out The Flavor. The Slow cooker brings out the best flavor in this Chuck Roast by slow roasting it with the onions, carrots, and potatoes.
  2. The Seasoning!  The Taco Seasoning, Ranch Seasoning, and Italian Seasoning, along with the Worcestershire add tons of flavor that stand up to the slow cooking. You can’t go wrong with this recipe. It is so easy and results in a tender, juicy, flavorful roast every time.
  3. Tried and True Recipe. This is a tried and true recipe that we have made many times as have many of my readers. It has received rave reviews at my house and at several of your homes.
  4. One-Pot Meal. Cook the roast with the potatoes, onions, and carrots, and you have yourself an entire meal in one slow cooker. This is convenient and saves clean up time too.
  5. Dump and Leave. Dump everything in the slow cooker in the morning and let it cook all day. Then you can come home after a long day and dinner is ready to be served! 

What Are The Ingredients For A Crock Pot Chuck Roast?

  1. Chuck Roast. Choose a roast with a lot of marbling. This is not the time to select a lean cut. You want a nice roast with lots of visible marbling.
  2. Oil. Select an oil that can withstand fairly high heat. Vegetable oil or avocado oil works well because they have a higher smoke point and can withstand higher heat.
  3. Carrots. Use either a larger size of baby carrots or cut carrots into about 2-inch pieces. They need to be like chunks of carrots to hold up during the slow cooking.
  4. Onion. You can use a white or yellow sweet onion. Cut them into quarters so that they hold up during the long cooking time.
  5.  Potatoes.  Potatoes are a natural for cooking in a slow cooker with a Chuck Roast. I like to use small russet or red potatoes cut into quarters.
  6. Beef Broth.  You can use beef stock or beef broth. I recommend using a reduced-sodium one because the store-bought broths can beef extremely salty and there will be plenty of salt from the other seasonings.
  7. Worcestershire. There is nothing like the flavor of Worcestershire sauce to really bring out the flavor of meats.
  8. Taco Seasoning. Surprise! I use three seasoning mixes in this Crock Pot Chuck Roast to give it a ton of flavor. I recommend making your own so you don’t have the artificial preservatives. If you want to change it up, you can use a Cajun Seasoning instead!
  9. Ranch Seasoning. This gives it a great flavor, especially when combined with the other seasoning mixes.
  10. Italian Seasoning or Greek Seasoning. The herbs in these seasonings really amp up the flavor of this pot roast. Don’t skip this.

How Do You Make A Crock Pot Chuck Roast?

If you are worried that you won’t make it as good as what you remember, worry no more! This Crock Pot Chuck Roast with Vegetables is about as easy as you can get because the slow cooker or crockpot does most of the work.

  1. Combine the taco, ranch, Italian or Greek Seasonings together in a small bowl. Then sprinkle the seasoning mix combination all over the roast.
  2. Brown the Chuck Roast. This sears in the flavor before the slow cooking starts.
  3. Chop the onions and potatoes into large chunks.
  4. Chop the carrots into large chunks if you are not using baby carrots.
  5. Place roast and vegetables in the crockpot.
  6. Pour the beef broth over the roast and vegetables in the crockpot.
  7. Pour in the Worcestershire.
  8. Cook on low for 8 – 10 hours.
Crock Pot Chuck Roast with Vegetables

Tips For The Perfect Chuck Roast or Pot Roast

  1. Start with the best quality beef chuck roast you can find. I think every grocery store in America has them. If they didn’t, the store would probably go out of business!
  2. Before placing the roast into the crockpot, I like to season the meat and brown it on all sides of the roast. I think that adds even more flavor and sears in the juices. Don’t worry, it doesn’t take long.
  3. Sear the roast for a couple of minutes on each side before placing it in the crockpot. The added flavor the searing provides makes this extra step worth it. Many people skip this step, but this locks in flavor.

Do you have to brown a roast before putting it in the crockpot?

No, you don’t have to brown a roast first. However, after you taste a roast that has been browned first before cooking, then you will want to brown it first. It adds more flavor to brown it first. It sears in the juices and makes a delicious roast. However, it certainly is not required. You could slow cook it without browning and it will still taste good.

Do you add water when cooking a roast in a crock pot?

For slow cooking, unlike pressure cooking, it is not required that you add water unless the recipe calls for it. 

What Kind Of Roast Is Good For Pot Roast

As you can tell by this recipe, we like to use chuck roast when cooking a pot roast because it becomes tender, juicy and delicious when slow cooked.

What To Cook With The Chuck Roast

After you place the seared chuck roast in the crockpot, add in the onions, carrots, and potatoes so they can cook with the pot roast.

While I like to use carrots, onions, and potatoes, you can add your favorite root vegetables, such as sweet potatoes, parsnips, or turnips. If the crockpot is not large enough to fit all the vegetables, you can slow cook the potatoes separately by making Crockpot Roasted Potatoes.

Then pour in the beef broth and Worcestershire and cook it on low for 8 – 10 hours and you will have the best pot roast you have ever had in your life!

Crock Pot Chuck Roast with Vegetables

Since it was all cooked in one pot, you can spend less time washing dishes and spend more time with your family enjoying this incredible Crock Pot Chuck Roast and the roasted potatoes and carrots!

Watch the video above to learn how to make this Crock Pot Chuck Roast recipe.

Go ahead and make this easy, flavorful, budget-friendly, and family-friendly one-pot meal. You will be glad you did and so will our family!

What To Serve With The Chuck Roast

  1. If you cook the root vegetables, such as carrots and potatoes, with the roast, then all you need to add is a green salad, slaw or mashed potatoes if you didn’t cook the potatoes with the pot roast.
    1. Apple Walnut Cranberry Salad
    2. Red Wine Poached Pear Salad
    3. Cajun Honey Jalapeno Slaw
    4. Bacon Onion Horseradish Mashed Potatoes

How To Store Leftover Chuck Roast?

  • Fridge: Let the roast cool. Then you have a couple of options. 1) Either wrap the roast in plastic and foil, or 2) Place the roast in an airtight container, and store in the refrigerator for up to 3 days.
  • Freezer: If you’re going to freeze the roast, if possible, it is best to freeze on the same day as you serve. You can either freeze the roast whole, or freeze slices of roast beef, or shred the roast and combine with a sauce like barbecue sauce, and freeze in a freezer-safe bag or airtight container for up to 3 months.

Looking For More Crock Pot (Slow Cooker) Recipes?

  1. Crock Pot Philly Cheese Steak
  2. Crock Pot Chicken Tacos
  3. Slow Cooker Country Style Boneless Pork Ribs

Other Beef Recipes

  1. Beef Tips and Rice – Beef Tips and Rice, with sauteed onions and peppers covered in a savory gravy, made in a dutch oven or crockpot, make an easy, delicious, and hearty dinner your family will love. 
  2. Beef Fajitas – made with skirt steak or flank steak, and served with sauteed onions, red and green peppers, these beef fajitas make an easy, delicious, smoky, spicy, and flavorful dinner.

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Slow Cooker Chuck Roast Recipe

This easy Crock Pot Chuck Roast or Pot Roast recipe, with roasted potatoes, carrots, and onions, is so juicy, tender and flavorful, no one would ever believe how easy it is to make this dinner in the slow cooker!
Course Main Dishes
Cuisine American
Keyword Crockpot Chuck Roast, Pot Roast
Prep Time 10 minutes minutes
Cook Time 8 hours hours
Total Time 8 hours hours 10 minutes minutes
Servings 8
Calories 421kcal
Author Michele @ Flavor Mosaic

Ingredients

  • 2 Tablespoons olive oil
  • 3 lb Chuck Roast
  • Salt and pepper to taste
  • 1-1/2 cups Baby Carrots
  • 2 lbs potatoes cubed
  • 1 onion roughly chopped
  • salt and pepper to taste
  • 2 cups beef broth
  • 2 Tablespoons Worcestershire
  • 2 Tablespoons taco seasoning or a little over half a store bought packet
  • 3 Tablespoons ranch seasoning
  • 1 Tablespoon Italian seasoning
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Instructions 

  • In a small bowl, combine the salt, pepper, taco seasoning, ranch seasoning and Italian or Greek Seasoning. Rub the seasoning mix all over the roast.
  • In a large skillet or dutch oven add the olive oil over medium-high heat.
  • When the pan and oil are hot, place the chuck roast in the hot oil and cook for a minute or two until the side facing down on the pan, is brown. Then turn the roast and repeat for each side until all sides are brown.
  • Remove the roast and place it in the slow cooker.
  • Add the potatoes, onions, and carrots.
  • Pour the broth and Worcestershire over the roast and vegetables.
  • Cook on low for 8 – 10 hours or on high for 4 to 5 hours..

Video

Notes

How To Store Leftover Chuck Roast?

  • Fridge: Let the roast cool. Then you have a couple of options. 1) Either wrap the roast in plastic and foil, or 2) Place the roast in an airtight container, and store in the refrigerator for up to 3 days.
  • Freezer: If you’re going to freeze the roast, if possible, it is best to freeze on the same day as you serve. You can either freeze the roast whole, or freeze slices of roast beef, or shred the roast and combine with a sauce like barbecue sauce, and freeze in a freezer-safe bag or airtight container for up to 3 months.

Nutrition

Calories: 421kcal | Carbohydrates: 17g | Protein: 36g | Fat: 23g | Saturated Fat: 9g | Cholesterol: 117mg | Sodium: 471mg | Potassium: 1146mg | Fiber: 3g | Sugar: 1g | Vitamin A: 1195IU | Vitamin C: 15mg | Calcium: 87mg | Iron: 7.9mg

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Comments

  1. Michelle says

    February 1, 2023 at 10:04 pm

    Absolutely hands down, the best pot roast I’ve ever had. Can’t wait to make again.

    Reply
    • Michele says

      February 1, 2023 at 10:22 pm

      Hi Michelle,

      I’m thrill to hear you liked it so much. It’s our favorite too.

      Thanks,
      Michele

      Reply
  2. Jason says

    May 19, 2023 at 9:03 am

    What is the fine temperature, seems silly to have a recipe without that…

    Reply
    • Michele says

      May 20, 2023 at 9:14 am

      Hi Jason,

      Thank you for visiting Flavor Mosaic. This is a slow cooker recipe, which is why the recipe states to cook on low without saying a temperature. If you would like to cook it in the oven, you can preheat the oven to 350 degrees F., and cook the roast for 45 minutes for each pound of meat. So, if you have a 3 pound roast, then you would cook it for 2 hours 15 minutes at 350 degrees F.

      Let me know if you have any other questions.

      Thanks,
      Michele

      Reply
    • Jill says

      June 8, 2024 at 2:12 am

      Hi Jason. I don’t really think the “seems silly” is necessary. Kind of mean, actually. But a very classy response from Michele.

      Reply
      • Dan says

        August 4, 2024 at 8:41 am

        Jill. Don’t be such a Karen! You are too soft.

        Reply
  3. Deanna says

    June 24, 2023 at 4:56 pm

    I’m going to try this over the weekend! When you say add the seasonings, do you stir them in to the broth, or do you sprinkle them together all over the roast? Also, your link for the video is nowhere to be found that I can see.

    Reply
    • Michele says

      June 24, 2023 at 5:52 pm

      Hi Deanna,

      I’m happy to hear that you want to try this. The seasonings you can stir into the broth. At the top of the blog post, by the social media share buttons, is the “Jump To Recipe” link. Click on that to jump to the recipe card that is located at the bottom of the blog post (just above the comments), and the video is in the recipe card under the instructions. Please let me know if you have any more questions.

      Thanks,

      Michele

      Reply
  4. Niecey says

    August 25, 2023 at 10:05 am

    I am going to try this recipe on Sunday for our Sunday dinner. I always make Sunday dinner so our family all comes together. Good food , good times.

    Reply
  5. Megan says

    October 1, 2023 at 12:28 pm

    Is it more tender to leave it for 8 hour on low than 4 on high?

    Reply
    • Michele says

      October 3, 2023 at 9:12 am

      Hi Megan,

      Because the heat is low in the slow cooker, the longer you cook it, the more tender the roast is.

      Thanks,
      Michele

      Reply
  6. Lee says

    January 19, 2024 at 8:19 am

    I’m giving your spices a try. I added apples and beer to your recipe. I always ad beer to a slow cooker. I ad string beans too but with the current weather, Acme is out of the question. I have a fourth head of cabbage left in the fridge so last hour it will most likely end up in the pot. That’s the beauty of slow cookers, use what you have. Thanks for the taco tip.

    Reply
  7. Jennifer Cosentino says

    March 9, 2024 at 5:07 pm

    Thank you for this recipe. I was a little hesitant when I saw that I needed to add ranch, Italian, and taco seasoning! Such a great combination!

    Reply
    • Michele says

      March 9, 2024 at 5:11 pm

      Hi Jennifer,

      Thank you so much. I’m so glad you like it. I understand some may be hesitant at first, but give it a try, like you did, and you find out that it has a wonderful flavor combination.

      Thank you,

      Michele

      Reply
  8. Rebecca Daniels says

    March 31, 2024 at 10:59 pm

    I have not seared a roast before putting in the crockpot, but I would like to for the flavor difference you mentioned. I usually prep my roasts the night before and put the crock insert in the fridge overnight. Is it possible to sear it and put it all together and keep it in the fridge til morning or is that I bad idea?

    Reply
    • Michele says

      April 1, 2024 at 6:52 pm

      Hi Rebecca,

      I have not tried searing the night before, but you if let it cool some before putting in the fridge, I don’t see why you couldn’t do that.

      Thanks,

      Michele

      Reply
  9. Rachelle Anderson says

    July 14, 2024 at 8:07 pm

    Stumbled upon this recipe. Liked the your page name and gave it a try.

    Was also a little hesitant with blending of these seasonings together; however, happily surprised by the outcome. It passes the 5-year olds test of good food. I think we have a future foodie.

    Thank you for sharing this recipe.

    Reply
    • Michele says

      July 15, 2024 at 4:45 pm

      Hi Rachelle,

      Thank you for visiting, and I’m happy that you liked the website name and the recipe. 🙂 The 5-year old test is the true test. Thanks for sharing your experience. Please be sure and check out other comfort food recipes, such as Creamy Mushroom Chicken and Rice, Tortellini Bake, or Slow Cooker Steak Bites!

      Thanks,
      Michele

      Reply
  10. jon fair says

    September 16, 2024 at 6:05 pm

    hey jason, the title of the recipe has the words “crock pot”

    Jill has the last word on “silly”

    Reply
  11. Jenna says

    September 17, 2024 at 5:29 am

    Thank you for this recipe ! It was absolutely delicious ! My family gobbled it up . There was no leftovers . Will definitly make again !

    Reply
  12. Alyson says

    September 20, 2024 at 7:55 am

    Thank you for sharing this recipe! I didn’t have beef broth so I substituted it with chicken stock and it still turned out sooo yummy! All my kids loved it and 3 of the 4 are very picky eaters! So it is safe to say I found a new dinner everybody loves! Will definitely be saving this and making it as a repeat meal!

    Reply
    • Michele says

      September 20, 2024 at 12:12 pm

      Hi Alyson,

      I’m so happy that you and your kids loved this. Thanks for sharing.

      Michele

      Reply
  13. Sue says

    October 24, 2024 at 7:01 pm

    Hi Michele,
    I haven’t tried the recipe yet, but I wondered if I would be able to make it in the Instant Pot. And how long should I cook it? Thank you! I look forward to trying it.

    Reply
    • Michele says

      October 24, 2024 at 11:10 pm

      Hi Sue,

      Thank you for the question. Yes, you can cook this roast in an Instant Pot. You would pressure cook it for 60 minutes for a 3 lb roast and then do a natural release (let it depressurize on its own) for at least 10 minutes, and then release the pressure by moving the release valve to venting position to release the remaining pressure. Let me know if you have any other questions.

      Thanks,

      Michele

      Reply
  14. Hannie says

    March 18, 2025 at 1:50 pm

    Can I skip the browning step? I didn’t have time to do that and had to throw everything into the crock pot!

    Reply
    • Michele says

      March 18, 2025 at 3:38 pm

      Hi Hannie,

      Yes, it’s ok. You can skip the browning part. It will still be good. The meat just won’t have that little extra flavor.

      Thanks,

      Michele

      Reply
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