3-Ingredient Dinners for One · Number 10

Slow Cooker Pot Roast

  • Three ingredients
  • 8 hours
A thick slice of chuck roast with two small potatoes and gravy over everything on one ordinary dinner plate, served for one with a single fork
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You need

Good to know: Sized for one; salt, pepper, oil and water are free.

What to do

  1. Potatoes whole in a small slow cooker, the roast on top, fully thawed.
  2. The whole envelope over the roast, 1 cup water round the sides.
  3. Lid on, low, 8 hours; don't lift it.
  4. Done when a fork pulls it apart.

Adapted from a recipe by Lipton Kitchens.

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