Slow Cooked Roast With Creamy Mushroom Gravy

Course Beef, Main Course

Cuisine American, Southern

Keyword easy-roast-recipes, slow-cooked-roast, slow-cooked-roast-gravy

Prep Time 10

Cook Time 10

Total Time 10 10

Servings servings

Calories 654kcal

Author Melissa Sperka

Use paper towels to pat dry the chuck roast, then season the roast on all sides with steak seasoning.
On the stove top, heat the olive oil over medium-high heat in a heavy bottomed pan or large skillet. Brown the roast on every side in the hot oil, turning as needed.
Remove the roast to your slow cooker. Add the chopped garlic to the pan and sauté for 1 minute. Add the French Onion soup into the sauté pan to deglaze the pan. Pour the warm soup and garlic over the roast.
Drizzle the Worcestershire sauce over the roast, and arrange the carrots around the edge of the slow cooker. Season everything with salt and black pepper to your taste.
Lock the lid in place. Set your slow cooker to cook for 8-10 hours on the low setting.
Add the frozen pearl onions approximately 2 hours, before the roast is done, so they won't overcook.
When the roast has finished cooking, and is pull apart tender, pour the liquid from the roast into a stovetop saucepan.
Bring the drippings to a boil and add the cream of mushroom soup. Whisk the soup into the drippings, and simmer for around 5-7 minutes on low heat until the gravy turns a medium brown color and thickens.
Taste and adjust the seasonings to your taste.
Slice the roast and arrange it on a serving platter with the vegetables.
Drizzle the gravy on top and serve any remaining on the side.

French Onion Soup: French onion soup has a robust flavor that complements the beef. You can also make this recipe using beef stock or beef broth and a packet of dry onion soup mix, in place of the French onion soup.

Mushrooms: To enhance the gravy you can add sliced fresh mushrooms along with the other vegetables.

Steak Seasoning: You can use your favorite steak seasoning purchased at the grocery store. Chicago steak seasoning, Kansas City steak seasoning or Montreal steak seasoning are all readily available.

Potatoes: You can add cubed russet potatoes or yukon gold potatoes to the carrots transforming it into a comforting one pot meal. Due to the amount of time the roast cooks, you can add halved potatoes in the beginning of cooking. Add smaller cubes toward the end of cooking.

Onions: You can use wedges of sweet onion or yellow onion to the pot in place of pearl onions.

Kitchen Bouquet Browning Sauce: When making the mushroom gravy at the end of cooking, you can add one or two teaspoons of browning sauce to intensify the flavor.