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Recipe for Mississippi Pot Roast in Crock Pot is the ultimate cold weather comfort food. Thus, this is the classic meat and potatoes dish that really warms the body right to the core. And the best part is that it takes minutes to prepare and then the crock pot does the heavy lifting all day while you go about your day. And I will share three time saving tips and three money saving tips, albeit they will cost a little more time.
This is one of my absolute favorite recipes that my wife makes for our family. A little warm, crusty bread to dunk in the liquid at the bottom and I’m a very happy man. We will be doing more and more of these sort of recipes during the winter months because we know some of you are going to pass on sparking up the grill on some of those super frigid days. That’s OK. We are here to help with that. so, if it’s comfort food you crave, and in particular crock pot comfort food, I give you this crock pot chili recipe. Not a crockpot recipe, but this biscuits and brisket gravy is amazing breakfast comfort food.
Speaking of comfort food, we just launched an entire website to stuff cooked inside including a plethora of comfort food including this Easy Chicken Pot Pie Recipe. Check back often and this just launched and I’m adding lots of content!
Mississippi Pot Roast Ingredients
- 2.5 pounds of cubed stew meat
- 1.3 ounces of pot roast seasoning
- 1.3 ounces of ranch seasoning
- Resealable plastic bag, gallon size
- 1 pound baby carrots
- 2 pound baby potatoes, although we chunked up some russets
- 2 tablespoons of jarred garlic, minced, although you could use fresh
- 1 stick of butter, sliced into pats
- 1/4 cup pepperoncini with juice (about half a standard jar), substitute banana peppers
What is the difference between Mississippi Pot Roast and Regular Pot Roast?
Mississippi pot roast always has the ranch seasoning, butter and pepperoncini/banana peppers to make a somewhat tangy and maybe even a little bit spicy flavor profile.
Let’s start off with some tips to save some time.
How to Save Time Making Mississippi Pot Roast
The three best tips I have are to use already cubed stew meat, buy a bag of baby or fingerling potatoes and go with one of these bags of baby carrots:
Buying the ingredients already in the proper size saves time, but costs money. Conversely, if you want save money…
How to Save Money Making Mississippi Pot Roast
If you want to save money on this Mississippi Pot Roast recipe, it will cost you some time. Chop your own potatoes (like we did here in this post). Also buy the whole carrots that need to be peeled and chop them yourself. Additionally, buy the cheapest chunk of beef you can buy. I recently used bottom round roast in a pot of crock pot chili which was 33% cheaper than 80/20 ground beef:
Season the Pot Roast
Then, pour the two types of seasoning, garlic and cubed beef into the plastic bag and work the seasoning and garlic all around the meat to coat thoroughly.
Next, drop the chunked potatoes on the bottom, then layer down the carrots, followed by the seasoned beef and finally top with butter and pepperoncinis (or banana peppers):
Set the crock pot to low and allow it to simmer for 6-10 hours.
Here is the Mississippi Pot Roast in Crock Pot at about 5 hours:
And here we have after 8 hours and a good stir:
Indeed, a soup crock is the perfect dish to serve this recipe for Mississippi pot roast in crock pot:
Finally, a little parsley is a nice touch:
Recipe for Mississippi Pot Roast in Crock Pot Recap
I know the pepperoncinis/banana peppers scare some of you. In fact, I’m not a fan myself. I love spicy stuff, but I can’t stand either of these peppers. This Mississippi pot roast in crock pot doesn’t taste like those peppers. They just add a little pizzazz. This is a wonderful and quick way to prepare a crock pot full of some of the best comfort food you can ever make. And when I say that it doesn’t take much time, I mean it takes less than 5 minutes. Chunking the potatoes into cubes and slicing the butter into tablespoons or pats of butter. Particularly if you go with cubed stew beef.
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Recipe for Mississippi Pot Roast in Crock Pot
Equipment
- 1 Resealable plastic bag Gallon size
Ingredients
- 1 pound Baby carrots
- 2 pounds Baby potatoes
- 2.5 pounds Stew meat Cubed
- 1.3 ounces Pot roast seasoning
- 1.3 ounces Ranch seasoning
- 2 tablespoons Jarred garlic
- 1 stick Salted butter Sliced into 12-16 pats
- ¼ cup Pepperoncinis with juice Substitute banana peppers
Instructions
- Drop the carrots and potatoes into the crock pot
- Place the cubed stew meat into a resealable plastic bag and pour in both seasonings and the garlic. Seal the bag and work the seasoning and garlic around all the meat.
- In the crockpot layer down the chunks of potatoes, followed by the carrots and then the beef and finally top with the butter and pepperoncinis (or banana peppers) and set the temp on the crockpot to low and close the lid.
- Allow to cook for 6-10 hours and serve
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