Brown Sugar Mississippi Pot Roast Recipe– Prepared in a flash, this tender, flavorful, savory yet sweet Brown Sugar Mississippi Pot Roast Recipe melts in your mouth! Serve over my Garlic Mashed Potatoes and with a side of Collard Greens for a wonderful comfort meal. If you love this, you will also love this Italian Beef Grilled Cheese and Brown Sugar Mississippi Pot Roast.
Disclosure: I partnered with Land O’Lakes for this Mississippi Pot Roast recipe post, but all opinions expressed here are my own. I am grateful for authentic partnerships like this.
The Most Delicious Mississippi Pot Roast with a Twist
What Is a Mississippi Pot Roast?
About 15 years ago a woman from Ripley, MS, named Robin Chapman, made a pot roast in her slow cooker. Now known as Mississippi Roast, it eventually became one of the most popular recipes on the internet.
Since then, this pot roast has taken on a life of its own and has even become one of my personal favorites.
The simplicity of this Mississippi Pot Roast is where its true beauty lies. A chuck roast, ranch dressing mix, au jus gravy mix, butter, and some pepperoncini peppers come together to make the tastiest, tenderest, most delicious pot roast ever.
Although I certainly do find use for my crock pot year-round, the fall and winter months call for an abundance of easy, comforting and delicious meals produced by my trusty crock pot. There’s nothing like dumping a few ingredients in, setting the heat to low and coming home to a beautifully cooked hot meal. My mama depended on hers all the time, and I have followed in her footsteps.
This Mississippi Pot Roast is made perfectly with just a few flavorful ingredients. My secret to the perfect pot roast is quality butter, and my go-to choice is always Land O’Lakes.
How to Cook a Slow Cooker Pot Roast
I used the Land O Lakes® Butter with Canola Oil. Made with sweet cream, canola oil and salt, this blend is both creamy and packed with flavor. Adding this particular ingredient will allow your meat to tenderize perfectly and create that incredible melt in your mouth texture.
Additional Slow Cooker Pot Roast Recipe Ingredients for Mississippi Pot Roast
The peppers and mixes come together to make a playful balance of flavors. I added a fun extra ingredient, brown sugar.
The sweetness from the sugar, slight sourness from the pepper and delightful but not heavy seasoning from the mixes creates something truly special.
After patiently waiting the eight or more hours, you are rewarded with incredibly tender and flavorful meat perfect to serve with mashed potatoes. So, as you get ready to break out those one pot pastas and slow cooker soups, make sure to dust off the crockpot and make yourself a hunk of good ole Mississippi Pot Roast.
If you love this Mississippi Pot Roast Recipe, check out these as well:
- My Italian Pot Roast is seriously my husband’s favorite recipe ever!
- This fall off the bone Pomegranate Braised Short Ribs.
- If you love pot roast, try your hand at making beef ribs!
- There’s nothing better than braised short ribs!
- All steak fans seriously rave about my Skirt Steak marinade!
Brown Sugar Mississippi Pot Roast Recipe
Ingredients
- 2-4 lb chuck roast
- 1 ranch dressing packet
- 1 au jus gravy packet
- 1/3-2/3 cup dark brown sugar packed
- 7 pepperocini peppers
- 8 tbsp butter
Instructions
- Add the roast to the bottom of the slow cooker.
- Next pour ranch dressing packet, gravy mix and brown sugar over the top.
- Add peppers on top followed by Land O Lakes® Butter with Canola Oil.
- Add everything to slow cooker and cook for 8-10 hours on low or 5-6 hours on high. Use a spoon to remove additional oil on top of pot roast.
- Once completely tender, shred with two forks and serve over mashed potatoes.
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I Absolutely LOVE this pot roast. It’s easy to maker, very tasty and my kids love it!!
This was delicious, I added 2/3 cups of brown sugar. Next time, I make it will use 1/3 cup. My roommate loved it. Served it over mashed potatoes. So easy and so good!
Delicious and easy!!!!! I browned the roast and used a French onion soup mix. Everything else was the same. Turned out awesome
I love this recipe and can’t wait to try your brown sugar addition. Two additional things I do is lightly flour and brown the outside of the roast and add a packet of Italian seasoning. Hubby was grumping that it wouldn’t be good old-fashioned roast. He apologized!
This looks great!
How long I’d pressure cooking in the instant pot?
I’m not actually sure since this hasn’t been tested in that vessel yet.
OMG-the most delicious pot roast I have ever had! My family agrees-we have all decided, it’s a new family favorite. And-it’s soooooo easy! Don’t hesitate to give this a try. Even if not everyone in the family likes peppercinis-still put them in, they will still love it and there will be extra for the ones that love them (like me).
Was craving roast and potatoes. This was SO GOOD! The addition of the brown sugar really makes the dish. A nice sweet curb on the tanginess. Thank you!!!
Made this for dinner on Mother’s Day.
All I have to say is, this was the BEST
Pot Roast EVER!
I followed the recipe to the tee with the exception of the sugar.
I use 1/3 of a cup, and added carrots and red potatoes the last hour.
after an hour of cooking, the aroma in the house smelled so good I had to retreat and locked myself in the basement.
Once you make your pot roast using this recipe, you’ll soon understand!
Thanks you for sharing
Very tasty recipe!! Family and friends loved it.
Made this for my family tonight & it was absolutely a hit! Very flavorful and tender. Thanks for this awesome recipe.