Weight Watchers Slow Cooker Italian Pot Roast with Vegetables Recipe
Weight Watchers Slow Cooker Italian Pot Roast with Vegetables Recipe. This easy set it and forget it meal is the easy and delicious answer to “What’s for dinner?”.
This flavorful beef is made with salt, pepper, flour, olive oil, red onion, garlic, rosemary, Porcini mushrooms, tomatoes, and parsley. The perfect weeknight meal! Just throw all the ingredients in your slow cooker and let it do all the work for you.
The roast is cooked to perfection and so tender that it will practically fall apart when you pull it out of the slow cooker.
Serve it with some steamed veggies or a roasted potato, and you’ve got a delicious and easy meal!
Weight Watchers Points
MyWW Points: 6 Green Plan,
6 Smart Points.
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Weight Watchers Slow Cooker Italian Pot Roast
Ingredients
- 3 pounds bottom round beef roast trimmed
- 1½ teaspoon kosher salt divided
- ¾ teaspoon ground black pepper divided
- 2 tablespoon all-purpose flour
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- 1 large red onion quartered and sliced thin
- 3 clove garlic minced
- 1 tablespoon fresh or ¾ tsp dried rosemary chopped
- 1 tablespoon dried porcini mushrooms chopped fine
- 14 oz diced tomatoes
- 8 sprigs fresh flat-leaf parsley tied together with kitchen string
Instructions
- Season roast with 1 teaspoon of the salt, and ¼ teaspoon of the pepper.
- Layout a piece of wax paper, place roast on top of the paper.
- Sprinkle 2 tablespoons of all-purpose flour on top of the roast. Gently press the flour into the meat.
- In a large skillet, add 1 tablespoon olive oil, and place over medium/high heat.
- Carefully place the roast in the skillet (the oil may splatter). Brown the bottom side of the roast, then turn and repeat for all sides.
- Place the roast in a slow cooker. Set aside for later.
- Using the same skillet, turn the heat down to medium
- In the skillet, add onion, stir and cook approximately 5 minutes, or until onions are softened.
- Add in garlic, rosemary, and mushrooms. Stir constantly and cook for approximately 1 minute, or until fragarant.
- In the slow cooker, add the onion mix.
- In the slow cooker, add diced tomatoes, parsley, ½ teaspoon salt. and ⅛ teaspoon pepper.
- Cover slow cooker, set to LOW, and cook 8 to 10 hours or until roast is tender, or set to high and cook 4 to 6 hours, or until roast is tender.
- Remove the parsley, and discard.
- Take the roast out of the slow cooker and place on a cutting board. Loosely cover with aluminum foil for approximately 10 minutes to rest.
- In the meantime, in a medium saucepan, pour in the juice from the slow cooker, and place over high heat. Bring to a boil, and boil until volume has reduced to approximately 2 cups of sauce.
- Slice roast against the grain into 16 slices.
- Serve with vegetables and sauce.
Notes
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