I love double duty meals. Make this great roast beef and serve with mashed potatoes night one. Then take the left over beef and add a little bbq sauce and serve sandwiches night 2! Such a time saver
You can make your own onion soup mix for this recipe. You can find the recipe here
Bacon & Cola Crock Pot Roast Beef
Author: Amanda@MomsWithCrockpots.com
Recipe type: dinner
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Serves: 4-6
Ingredients
- 1 (3-4 lb) bottom round beef roast
- 1 (12 ounce) can cream of celery or mushroom soup (whatever your preference)
- ½ lb bacon , cooked and crumbled (reserve drippings)
- 3 -5 tablespoons bacon drippings
- 1 (1 ½ ounce) package dry onion soup mix
- 1 (12 ounce) can Cola
- 1 tbsp corn starch and 1 tbsp water mixed
Instructions
- Pour 1 can of Cola into your crock pot and set temperature to low.
- Place your Beef Roast in the crock pot and sprinkle the Dry Onion Soup mix over roast and the cola
- While cooking the roast on low, fry the bacon to a crisp, crumble it and set aside.
- Pour the bacon drippings from cooking the bacon and drizzle them over your roast.
- Spread the bacon crumbles over your roast and dry onion soup mix.
- Cover roast and cook on low for 6-8 hours, or 4-6 hours on high.
- One hour before roast is to be served make your gravy.
- Lift roast out of crock pot and set aside.
- Add your one can of Cream of Celery soup and hand whisk until blended. For time’s sake I use the electric mixer.
- Add corn starch and water mix and whisk in to thicken.
- Place your roast back into the crock pot and finish out your cooking time.
- Serve your roast with gravy over mashed potatoes.
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Definitely want to try this one.
Can you throw the roast into the crock pot frozen or should you thaw it first?
u can throw it in frozen. lots of recipes call for u to brown it first but i never do…it always tastes good to me!
I made this over the weekend (with pork) and it was AMAZING. Leftovers became a ‘stroganoff’ with egg noodles because I couldn’t ruin the yummy sauce with bbq.
Trying to cut calories..can u use diet cola, turkey bacon?
Yes you can.
This was a HUGE hit at our house!!!! YUM!!!!! The bacon is the secret weapon for sure. I measured my drippings becase it seemed like I had a lot in the pan and used 3T and there really wasn’t a lot more. Definately don’t skip out on the bacon.
Husband and daughter loved the recipe as did I. It will now be our go-to roast recipe. I agree the bacon is what makes it. Very simple and very yummy!!!