Apple-Flavored Pot Roast

This apple-flavored pot roast recipe yields a tender, slightly sweet pot roast made with apple juice, potatoes, and carrots — a comforting one-pot meal.

• Preparation Time: 15 mins
• Cooking Time: 4 hr
• Total Time: 4 hr 15 mins
• Calories: 792 Calories

Ingredients

• 3 cloves garlic, chopped
• 1 dash soy sauce
• 1 (1 ounce) envelope dry onion soup mix
• water as needed
• 1 (12 fluid ounce) can frozen apple juice concentrate, thawed
• 2 carrots, peeled and sliced
• 1 (3 pound) boneless beef chuck roast
• 3 baking potatoes, peeled and diced

Recipe Instructions

Step 1

Preheat the oven to 325 degrees F (165 degrees C).

Step 2

Place beef in a roasting pan or large casserole dish; add about ½ inch of water. Stir in apple juice concentrate and soy sauce. Cut several small slits in roast; stuff with garlic. Season roast with onion soup mix. Cover the pan with aluminum foil or a lid.

Step 3

Cook in the preheated oven for 2 hours. Add potatoes and carrots. Cover the pan; continue cooking until roast is fork tender, about 2 hours more.