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Slow Cooker Spicy Pot Roast is tender and delicious! Just possibly the best pot roast I’ve ever made.
We love using our slow cooker for an easy dinner. Some of our other favorites include Slow Cooker Tri Tip, Slow Cooker Beef Curry and Slow Cooker Beef and Barley Soup.
Spicy Beef Roast
After my husband took a couple bites of this he announced, Â “This is the best pot roast I’ve ever had, don’t tell my mother!” Â
My husband is a real meat and potatoes kind of guy from Idaho so he grew up eating a lot of roast. This man knows his pot roast. I have to say I pretty much agree with him on his verdict. It was the BEST!
Don’t let the word spicy scare you though. I am not a fan of spicy things and this has just enough kick to make it delicious.
Spicy Pot Roast Recipe Ingredients
- Pot Roast or Chuck Roast
- Chicken Broth
- Soy Sauce
- Crushed Tomatoes
- Tomato Paste
- Chipotle Peppers
- Garlic
- Chili Powder
- Onions
- Vegetable Oil
- Cumin
- Oregano
- Tapioca for thickening
Slow Cooker Pot Roast
Many of the recipes are shelf stable and things you can keep stocked in the pantry so it’s an easy dinner to put together. The other great thing about this recipe is that it uses the slow cooker! I love a pot roast cooked in a slow cooker.
The slow cooker gets it so tender!!
This pot roast literally fell apart. The rich smokey flavor provided by the chipotle peppers is amazing. If you want some rave reviews from your family feed them this slow cooker southwestern pot roast for dinner tonight!
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Spicy Pot Roast Recipe
Spicy Pot Roast
Ingredients
- 4-5 lb boneless beef roast cut in two pieces
- 1 onion minced
- 1/4 cup tomato paste
- 3 Tbs vegetable oil
- 8 garlic cloves minced
- 1 Tbs chili powder
- 1 Tbs ground cumin
- 1 tsp dried oregano
- 1 28 oz. crushed tomatoes
- 1 1/2 cups low-sodium chicken broth
- 1/3 cup soy sauce
- 3 Tbs Minute Tapioca
- 2 tsp chipotle chiles in adobo sauce canned and minced
- Salt and Pepper
Instructions
- Sauté onions and garlic in a pan with oil. Add in tomato paste, chili powder, cumin, and oregano, stir, until onions are softened, about 5 minutes; transfer to slow cooker.
- Stir tomatoes, broth, soy sauce, tapioca, and chipotles into slow cooker.
- Season roasts with salt and pepper and nestle into slow cooker.
- Cover and cook until beef is tender, 9 to 11 hours on low or 5 to 7 hours on high.
- Slice or shred roasts and serve with sauce.
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Victor says
I did make this and I followed your recipe to the letter, except I use a pork roast instead. I used the liquid to make an abundance of gravy and mixed some into the meat, which I shredded. I’m thinking I gotta make this again for family taco nigh, maybe I’ll kick up the spices a little too! Loved it! One question, what’s the tapioca for? Thank you.
Susie says
I made this exactly as posted today. There was a LOT of sauce! I was delivering the meal to another family, so I transferred to a deep casserole pan. After slicing the roast and and very generously ladling a lot of sauce over and around it, I still had so much sauce that I ended up leaving about 3+ cups of it in the crock. The roast was falling-apart tender, but the sauce was far too spicy for my taste. Maybe it was the brand of chipotle peppers that I used, but next time I will cut back to 1 teaspoon, and also cut one of the 3 onions into large slices instead of mincing all of them because, with so much sauce, the dish seemed to be lacking something (coarsely sliced onions and bell peppers cooked into the sauce, maybe). I served it with Food Network’s Roasted Potatoes & Tomatoes and a Cowboy Salad.
Marybelle says
I’m thinking about making this tonight, but I don’t have tapioca, can it be omitted? If not what is a god substitute?
Leigh Anne says
The tapioca is used as a thickening agent. You can leave it out, your sauce may just be a bit runnier but it will still taste the same.