This very easy slow-cooker recipe yields a wonderfully tender and flavorful low-sodium beef pot roast.
After the beef is cooked, you can save the broth from the slow-cooker for later use in soup, casseroles, or other recipes. See directions in the recipe below.
- 2 medium onions, cut into chunks
- 5 carrots, cut into fourths (or 15-20 baby carrots)
- 3 medium potatoes, cut into cubes
- 1 Tbsp olive oil or Canola oil
- 3 lb beef chuck roast, with fat trimmed off.
- Mrs Dash Beef Grilling seasoning
- ½ cup no-sodium beef broth
- Spray slow-cooker with cooking spray.
- Place onions, carrots, and potatoes in bottom of the slow-cooker
- Sprinkle Mrs Dash Beef Grilling seasoning lightly on all sides of the roast
- Heat oil to medium-high in a medium skillet.
- Brown meat in the skillet on all sides. Remove and place in the slow-cooker.
- Add the beef broth to the skillet and stir to loosen browned bits. Pour over the meat in the slow cooker.
- Cover and cook on low for 8-10 hours.
- Strain the vegetables and beef from the broth and place the strained broth in a covered bowl or pan.
- After it cools a bit, put the broth in the refrigerator for a couple of hours (or overnight) to allow the fat to rise to the surface. (Don't stir the broth; just let it settle)
- After the broth is completely cooled, you can remove the fat by scraping it from the top with a spoon. Discard all of the fat.
- Divide the broth into useful portions (I like to save it in ½ cup or 1 cup portions.) Then put it into zip-lock bags and freeze it for later use in soups, casseroles, or other recipes.
- Note: this yields a very robust broth. To use the broth in a recipe, you will want to add approximately 2 parts water for each 1 part broth. For example: 1 cup of this broth plus 2 cups water is appropriate for use in a recipe that calls for 3 cups of low-sodium beef broth.
Note that sodium percentages depend on which daily reference you use. The estimated 88 mg of sodium per 4 oz serving of beef implies that one serving of this recipe provides:
– 4% of the U.S. FDA daily reference value for sodium for a 2,000-calorie diet that includes 2,400 mg sodium, or
– 6.0% of the American Heart Association recommendation of 1,500 mg sodium per day, or
– 9.0% of the Ménière’s diet recommendation of 1,000 mg sodium per day.
(As is the case with all of the recipes on this web site, the nutrition information provided in this recipe is only an estimate based on nutrition information provided on the packaging of each of the ingredients we used in this recipe and/or on a variety of sources on the web. This information should be regarded as an opinion only, with no guarantees that it is accurate. Obviously, the nutritional information will vary depending on the ingredients and quantities that you use.)
