This crock pot chuck roast with mashed potatoes is the perfect comfort food, both filling and satisfying. Everyone will love this roast and come back for seconds.
Nothing makes your heart and belly happy quite like really good pot roast. This slow-cooked chuck roast is super tender, has a wonderful gravy, and is so easy to make!
In addition to the best mashed potatoes ever it’s great with a veggie side like bacon green beans or these vegetable patties.
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Why You’ll Love This Recipe
- Simple Ingredients: This recipe uses just a handful of ingredients found in any kitchen or grocery store.
- Easy: Using simple ingredients, canned soup, and soup mix makes this an incredibly easy recipe.
- Classic Comfort Food: All that beef and gravy over a bed of fluffy mashed potatoes is the ultimate comfort food combo.
- Customizable: You can easily tweak this recipe to make all kinds of delicious variations, like this veggie-filled crock pot chuck roast recipe.
- Great for Meal Prep: This roast is freezer-friendly, so you can make extra for future meals.
Key Ingredients
I’ve listed the ingredients that really make this roast pop right here, but you’ll find a complete list, along with amounts, in the recipe card at the end of the post.
- Chuck Roast: A quality chuck roast with plenty of marbling creates super-tender beef.
- Soups: A blend of crema of mushroom soup and onion soup mix creates a rich gravy base for the secret ingredient in this recipe.
- Salsa: Spicy salsa adds a ton of flavor and a kick of heat to the roast.
- Evaporated Milk: Evaporated milk makes the potatoes extra rich and creamy.
- Cream Cheese: Cream cheese adds a luxurious teture and a tangy flavor to the potatoes.
Variations
- Mild: Use mild salsa for a version with far less heat.
- Chuck Roast: The flavors in this dish work well with chuck roast, pork roast, and other beef roast varieties such as brisket, blade roast, 7-bone roast, and arm roast.
- Add Veggies: Add carrots, potatoes, celery, and mushrooms for a classic version.
- Serve Over Rice: Add some veggies and cook up some rice to make a crock pot chuck roast over rice version.
How to Make Crock Pot Chuck Roast with Mashed Potatoes
I’ve included an overview of this easy recipe right here. Check out the recipe card at the bottom of the post for the complete instructions.
- Place the onions, roast, seasonings, soup mix, soup, and salsa in the crock pot.
- Cover and cook on low or high until the beef is super tender.
- Boil the cubed potatoes until soft. Then, drain and return to the pot.
- Add the reamining mashed potato ingredietns and mix until creamy. Enjoy!
Expert Tips
- Set the crock pot to high while adding the ingredients to heat it up quickly and cut down on cooking time.
- Dice the potatoes into 1-inch cubes so they cook quickly and evenly.
- Drain the potatoes as soon as they’re done to avoid sogginess.
- Bring the butter and cream cheese to room temperature before mixing them into the potatoes.
Crock Pot Chuck Roast with Mashed Potatoes FAQs
Tough cuts requiring long cooking times such as brisket, blade roast, 7-bone roast, or arm roast are all excellent replacements for chuck roast.
When choosing a chuck roast for this crock pot chuck roast with mashed potatoes, look for one with deep red color and bright white marbling. This indicates freshness. While sufficient marbling is vital for tenderness and flavor, avoid roasts with large, thick chunks or strips of fat, as these create a greasy dish.
You can overcook chuck roast in a crock pot, but it’s exceedingly difficult to do. While a chuck roast can be cooked for upwards of 12 hours on low, even with enough liquid in the slow cooker, overcooking can lead to tough, woody meat rather than tedner, fall-apart texture. That being said, you would have to actually forget your roast was in the slow cooker to come close to this.
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Crock Pot Chuck Roast with Mashed Potatoes
Ingredients
For the Chuck Roast
- 4 lbs chuck roast
- 1 large onion
- 5 cloves garlic, minced
- 1 28 oz can cream of mushroom soup
- 1 packet Lipton® onion dry soup mix
- 1 7 oz can Herdez® Salsa Casera, Hot
- 1 tsp salt
- 1 tsp pepper
For the Mashed Potatoes
- 3 large potatoes, peeled, cubed (Costco® size taters)
- ½ stick of butter
- ½ – ¾ cup evaporated milk
- 4 oz cream cheese
- Salt and pepper to taste
Instructions
For the Chuck Roast
- Turn crock pot to high and place chopped onions on bottom of crock pot.
- Place chuck roast on top of onions.
- Sprinkle garlic, salt and pepper, dry onion soup mix on top of meat.
- Pour salsa and soup over meat.
- Cover and let cook 6-8 hours on high, 10-12 hours on low.
For the Mashed Potatoes
- In a large sauce pan, add potatoes, cover with water.
- Cook potatoes until soft.
- Drain water and put potatoes back in pan.
- Add butter, evaporated milk, and cream cheese.
- Mash potatoes to desired creaminess.
- Add salt and pepper to taste.
Notes
- Set the crock pot to high while adding the ingredients to heat it up quickly and cut down on cooking time.
- Dice the potatoes into 1-inch cubes so they cook quickly and evenly.
- Drain the potatoes as soon as they’re done to avoid sogginess.
- Bring the butter and cream cheese to room temperature before mixing them into the potatoes.
Nutrition
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Enjoy, Terri
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