#190_ Crock Pot Roast Beef/Pot Roast

Traditionally roast beef is cooked in the oven, but there are times I need to use the crock pot to cook the beef in specially when I would be gone for a while. Crock pot cooking is very convenient specially for busy moms. It is a pretty good alternative to oven roasting and the huge benefit you'll get from cooking with crock pot is that you can let "time" in a sense do the cooking, but don't expect the outcome to be the same. The roast cooked in the oven has nice outer crust specially the fat part ( Mmm, love the crisp fat!). Although the meat cooked in a crock pot won't have the same crispy crusts, it still can be tasty and succulent and tender.

How to Cook Beef in Crock Pot?

First, turn the crock pot on to low. Rinse the meat with cold water then dry with paper towel. Rub meat with seasoned salt (garlic powder, onion powder, paprika, salt) or you favorite rub.

Heat some oil in a heavy skillet and sear (or brown) the meat on all sides. This way the juice is sealed in and blood from the meat won't seep through. You don't want to cook the meat in its own blood. Place the browned meat in the crock pot, fat side up. Put lid on and let it cook for 6 to 8 hours depending on the size of meat.


If you want the meat to be fork tender, slice the meat up and place it in a baking dish with its juice then put it in a 325 degrees oven for an hour. Serve with baked potatoes and au jus sauce or thickened gravy.

Pot Roast

Crock pot cooking is also good for making pot roast ( a different cut of meat).
Put cut vegetables like potatoes, carrots, celery, onions on the bottom of the pot, then place meat on top of veggies. Thicken the meat juice with flour or cornstarch on top of stove for gravy.

#121_Roast Beef

Rump Roast

Roast beef is one of the dishes we enjoyed at our last
Easter Sunday dinner, click here.


To prepare rump roast for roasting,
first, rinse the meat and pat dry with paper towel.
Then drizzle with canola oil or olive oil
and rub it all over the meat.

Rub some seasonings on all sides of the meat.

You can use any seasonings or spices you like.

You can even use just salt and pepper.

Here's my favorite rub:

I like to use a mixture of different spices like this one.
onion powder, garlic powder, kosher salt, mustard powder and
two different kinds of steak seasonings.


Place the prepared meat in dripper pan or a roasting pan,
fat side up. Do not add any water in the pan.
Pre-heat oven to 400 degrees and bake it for 15 minutes.
Turn the temperature down to 325 degrees, and continue to bake.

For well done roast, cook it for 30 minutes per pound
or insert a meat thermometer in the center of roast.
When it's temperature reaches 170 degrees,
take it out of the oven and let it rest for
about 20 minutes before carving or slicing it.

These slices of roast are going in the crockpot.

At this point the roast should be ready to be served but,
here's something I do that makes the roast extra tender and very flavorful.
I put the sliced roast in a crock pot on low heat.
I sprinkle some salt and add some broth.
Or you can dissolve bouillon cube in about 1/4 cup of hot water.
I let the roast continue to cook for about 1 hour
or until we are ready to devour it.
This is usually served with gravy but since
I made potato casserole instead of mashed potato,
I didn't make the gravy.