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It’s Tuesday, and I’m feeling LAZY. So tonight’s dinner will be my trusted and true, slow cooker Pot Roast Recipe. I love the ease of WW crock pot recipes and the fact that they are always so yummy! This particular pot roast is super flavorful and delicious, and the meat is so moist, it just melts in your mouth, like butter, baby! It’s a healthier version with a LOT less sodium, fat and calories than traditional pot roast recipes, but still tastes just as good. And at just 5 Points + per serving, including the gravy, it makes an awesome, low calorie weeknight dinner idea. Easy for me, good for my family!

Slow Cooker Pot Roast Recipe

Ingredients:
- 1 4lb lean beef chuck roast, trimmed of fat
- 1 tbsp extra-virgin olive oil
- 2 large onions, thinly sliced
- 1/2 cup carrots, sliced
- 1 cup butternut squash, chopped
- 4 cloves garlic, minced
- 1 tsp dried thyme
- 1 tsp dried sage
- 1 tbsp fresh parsley, chopped
- 1/2 cup strong brewed coffee
- 2 tbsp balsamic vinegar
- 2 tbsp cornstarch mixed with 2 tbsp water
- salt and pepper

Directions:
Preheat oven to 300°F. Season beef with salt and pepper. Heat oil in a Dutch oven over medium-high heat. Add beef and cook, turning from time to time, until well browned on all sides, 5 to 7 minutes. Transfer meat to slow cooker. Add onions, carrots, garlic, sage, thyme, coffee and vinegar; bring to a simmer. Cover and cook until beef is tender, 4 1/2 to 5 hours or High or 7 to 8 hours on Low. Add the butternut squash and parsley in the last 2 hrs of cooking. Meanwhile, skim fat from the braising liquid. Pour the liquid from your slow cooker into a medium saucepan Add the cornstarch mixture and cook, whisking, until the gravy thickens slightly, about 1 minute. Carve the beef and serve with gravy.

Entire recipe makes 8 servings
Serving size is 4oz of meat with 1/3 cup gravy
Each serving = 5 Points +

PER SERVING: 220 calories; 5 g fat; 5 g carbohydrates; 32 g protein; 1 g fiber

This delicious Weight Watchers Pot Roast recipe makes a lovely main course for any Hanukkah or Christmas dinner. It’s flavorful, soft, tender and juicy, and packs in only 6 Points per serving. You can even turn leftovers into flavorful steak sandwiches or eat some for breakfast with scrambled eggs. The herb crusted coating gives it a lovely aroma and an aesthetic beauty, so it will look gorgeous on your holiday dinner table! Most pot roast recipes can be pretty fattening and high in Points, but the way this one is prepared, all the taste of a traditional, juicy roast beef is maintained, but much of the extra fat and calories have been eliminated. Pair it up with some yummy salads and veggies, or stay tuned into LaaLoosh to get my AWESOME Holiday Mashed Potato Recipe, and serve it up with that. If you are a conscious Weight Watcher looking for an amazing Hanukkah or Christmas pot roast to serve up this holiday, give this delicious holiday roast recipe a try. You’ll be glad you did – and so will your dinner guests!

Weight Watchers Herb Crusted Pot Roast Recipe

Ingredients:
- 4 pounds lean whole beef ribs (Kosher beef if you are preparing for Hanukkah)
- 1 1/2 tsp table salt
- 1/2 tsp black pepper
- 2 medium garlic cloves
- 1/4 cup
- Dijon mustard
- 2 tbsp reduced-calorie mayonnaise
- 1 1/2 tsp horseradish sauce
- 1/4 cup parsley
- 2 tbsp thyme
- 2 tbsp dill

Directions:
Preheat oven to 375°F. Season roast with salt and pepper.
In a small bowl, combine garlic, mustard, mayonnaise and horseradish. In another small bowl, combine parsley, thyme, dill and 1 tablespoon of mustard mixture.
Place meat, rib-bone down, in a roasting pan; coat top with remaining mustard mixture and cook meat until an instant-read thermometer inserted in center of roast registers 110°F. Coat roast with remaining mustard mixture and press herb mixture onto mustard with your hands.
Continue cooking roast until a thermometer inserted in center of meat registers 140°F for medium, or longer until desired degree of done-ness. Cover loosely with foil and then let stand 20 to 30 minutes before carving into 12 thick slices.

Makes 12 serving (12 slices).
One serving is one slice
Each serving = 6 Weight Watchers Points

Pot Roast Recipe

Who doesn’t love a good All American pot roast? This classic meal takes me back to being a kid in snowy Pennsylvania, when I would come inside from being out playing in the snow and the fragrance of Mom’s pot roast would send my olfactory sensors into overdrive. So, I’m sharing my recipe (the Weight Watchers version) with you in the hopes that you’ll savor it the same way I have. This method of cooking an inexpensive cut of meat makes it so tender that this recipe will always be one of my favorite meals. And the best part is that it’s assembled very quickly, in 15 minutes or less, and then requires no more attention until it is done! Woo hoo!

Cooking time (duration): 30

Diet (other): Low calorie

Number of servings (yield): 4

Meal type: dinner

Culinary tradition: USA (General)

Rating: 5 stars:  ★★★★★ 1 review(s)

Recipe by LaaLoosh.com.

Weight Watchers Points Value = 7 (WW Points)