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 Stuffed Meatloaf, 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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Do you think this would work with pork? I am not a big beef eater. Thanks!
Yes I have a few followers who have used pork with great success.
My family and I love love loved this recipe. It’s the only way I’ll cook roast from now on. thank you for providing this delicious recipe!
This has become the standard pot roast at our house! Love it’s simplicity and wonderful flavor. I don’t always have pepperocini, but I don’t find that I miss them when I don’t. I usually cook with carrots and that adds a wonderful sweetness to the gravy.
Amazing recipe. A definite keeper on this one that’s for sure. Along with some jasmine rice with the gravy spooned over then placed the roast on top with more gravy of course. Thanks for sharing
Do you think adding potatoes and carrots will add something to it or take away from the flavor…if adding is a good idea how when would be a goos time to add the extra veggies.
Thanks
I would add the carrots and potatoes towards the end of the cook. It would be totally fine.
Can you make it without the peppers? Will it affect the flavor a lot?
I have made it without once because I forgot them when I went shopping and it still was amazing!
I have this in the crock pot right now. I was too lazy to run to the store and didn’t have Aus ju dry mix so am using brown gravy dry mix and only had light brown sugar but hope it still turns out great! Can’t wait for dinner!!
This recipe is really amazing!! I cannot quit making it! It is just my son and I so we have several nights of leftovers and it makes great leftovers too!
This recipe is amazing! Blows the other similar pot roast recipes out of the water. There’s a little sweetness to this one that just works. This is the new standard put roast recipe at our house. So we can have plenty of leftovers I put 2 roasts in at same time and keep all else the same. SO. YUM!!
Fantastic!!! I’m so so glad!
do you use the dry packets or make them into what they actually are, then add to roast?
You use the dry packets.
Looks delicious. I’m planning Sunday’s dinner.
You will love it.