With just five ingredients, Pot Roast With Onion Soup Mix slowly cooks into tender perfection in the slow cooker or in your oven. Fork-tender beef, sweet carrots and tasty potatoes are flavored with a mild onion gravy.
Beef, onion soup mix, carrots, potatoes and broth are all it takes to make this classic comfort food dinner.
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Pot Roast With Onion Soup Mix
Any time is a good time for comfort food and Pot Roast With Onion Soup Mix is just that.
A one-pot meal that the entire family is going to love!
Beef broth and homemade onion soup mix combine to form a light and flavorful sauce. You can also use a packet of onion soup mix.
However, homemade onion soup mix makes this recipe better than Lipton onion soup pot roast which is a throwback to my childhood years.
Cooking this casserole long and slow in the crockpot makes the beef chunk transform into tender forkfuls that melt in your mouth.
If you prefer to cook your pot roast in the oven, instead of in the crockpot, you can cook it in a roasting pan covered with aluminum foil, a dutch oven or a casserole dish, also covered with foil.
Scroll down for the oven directions for pot roast below.
This classic recipe brings back delicious childhood memories of Sunday dinner together with family.
It's such an easy recipe, just combine ingredients and let it slow cook, and you can also make it for a weeknight dinner too.
Literally, the best part of this recipe is that you can put the ingredients in the crockpot or even in the oven, walk away, and your dinner cooks itself.
And yes, the cooking time is long, but the slow cooking makes for the most tender pot roast ever.
With so much flavor, you are guaranteed to love this classic pot roast with the first forkful and it will taste just as amazing as leftovers the next day too!
Serve with dinner rolls and a tossed salad and you're all set!
The ultimate comfort food dinner, with just five ingredients, that cooks itself, is a win-win in my book!
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How to make onion soup pot roast
Scroll down for the full recipe instructions and ingredient amounts in the recipe card below
- Arrange carrots and potatoes in the bottom of your slow cooker
- Top with the chuck roast
- Combine the beef broth and onion soup mix and pour over the top of the beef roast
- Cover and cook on low for 8 hours, or on high for 4 hours, until the beef is fork tender.
How to cook pot roast in the oven
You can easily cook this casserole in the oven.
- Preheat the oven to 325F.
- Place the beef chuck roast, carrots and potatoes in a large roasting pan or dutch oven.
- Combine beef broth and onion soup mix and pour over the beef and vegetables.
- Cover and cook for 3 hours or until the beef is fork-tender.
Swirls of Flavor Recipe Tips
- Be sure to use a large roasting pan, casserole baking dish or a dutch oven, covered, if making this recipe in the oven instead of in the slow cooker
- I prefer to use baby Yukon gold potatoes for their buttery texture
Substitutions
- You can easily substitute an envelope of Lipton onion soup mix for the three tablespoons of homemade onion soup mix
- Substitute your favorite root vegetables, such as parsnips or rutabagas, for the carrots.
- Prefer sweet potatoes? Just peel and cut into bite size chunks and substitute for the potatoes
- Use 1/4 cup red wine in place of 1/4 cup beef broth
Equipment
What to serve with pot roast
- Green Salad
- Homemade Bread Without Yeast
- Homemade Sweet Dinner Rolls from Grumpy’s Honeybunch
- Cheese Beer Bread from Jersey Girl Cooks
Storage
- Store any leftover pot roast in an airtight container in the refrigerator.
- Pot roast and vegetables will stay fresh, in the refrigerator, for about 3-4 days.
- As always, I find it helpful to visit the FDA website for food storage guidelines
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Ingredients for onion soup mix pot roast
- boneless chuck roast
- onion soup mix
- beef broth
- baby carrots
- baby potatoes
Slow Cooker Pot Roast With Onion Soup Mix
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Ingredients
- 8 ounces baby carrots
- 8 ounces baby potatoes , halved
- 3 pounds boneless beef chuck
- ½ cup beef broth
- 3 Tablespoons homemade onion soup mix
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Instructions
- Arrange carrots and potatoes inbottom of your slow cooker.
- Top with the chuck roast.
- Combine the beef broth andonion soup mix and pour over the beef.
- Cover and cook 8 hours on low, or 4 hours on high, until beef is fork tender.
Notes
- Preheat oven to 325F.
- Place beef chuck roast, carrots and potatoes in a roasting pan or dutch oven.
- Combine beef broth and onion soup mix and pour over beef and vegetables.
- Cover and cook for 3 hours or until beef is fork tender.
I'm so glad you shared this!!! My mother-in-law used to make this and it's so easy and delicious!!! I am going to add it to our menu this weekend.
Doesn't get any easier in a slow cooker! I love the homemade onion mix. I never buy it, so thank you for the recipe. This is a keeper.
Love this recipe. I’m always trying new pot roast recipes because they are simple and everyone loves them. This one turned out so flavorful using that little onion soup packet. Mmm!
Love this! Tasted just like my mom’s recipe. Thanks!
I love childhood food memories!
Yes, that onion soup mix has a punch of flavor! So happy that you enjoyed this recipe!
I love when the slow cooker does all the work! lol
It really is so easy and delicious and the slow cooker does all the work! Bonus!
Such a great recipe for the cold weather! Love how easy it is!
This pot roast was delicious! I feel I make the same recipe for a pot roast, so this was a nice change! I let it slowly cook all afternoon and it turned out great!
This pot roast was the perfect weekday meal. It was so easy to prepare and the family loved it.
I made this recipe and this is so good.
My family loves it so much!
Try french onion soup and cream of mushroom have used this recipe since the eighties ❤️
Hi Catherine, yes, I have had that combination also although I prefer not to use canned soup with all the preservatives. Happy cooking, Gwynn
This looks like something my husband will love, I have no idea why I never make a roast. This is now on the menu for Sunday dinner, TY!
Looks super tender. Can’t wait to try it.
I love a good slow cooker meal. This roast turns out so tender and delicious. It's almost a whole meal unto itself - all I had to do was serve it with some warm crusty bread and it was a hearty dinner for the whole family!
Oh, warm crusty bread is the perfect addition to this hearty meal!
Slow cooking makes the meat very tender! Enjoy!
A perfect Sunday dinner! Enjoy!
The pot roast with onion soup mix is the easiest set and forget slow cooker recipe and such a hit. I needed a quick fix dinner and this is now my go to for a great dinner with no fuss.
Yes, I love that the slow cooker does the cooking for you!
Made this and added pepperoncini and some of the juice, we loved it!! Nice flavor and the meat was perfectly falling apart. We loved the potato flavor as well, TY!
Adding pepperoncini and some juice sounds delicious!
I made this for dinner last night. I haven't made this recipe in years and forgot how easy and delicious it is. Both my husband and I loved it. And I know the leftovers will taste even better.
Delicious! They were out of yukon gold so I had to use red potatoes but it still turned out perfect. Great recipe!
I love this recipe! It is delicious and pure comfort food! The best part is you can pop everything in the crock pot, and then dinner is ready when you get home. It's a true classic!
So happy that you like this recipe Sharon! It sure is a favorite in my house!