Slow-Cooker Balsamic Roast Beef {Gluten-Free}

Slow-Cooker Balsamic Roast Beef! Amazingly tender, savory roast beef easily made in the slow-cooker with just 10 min prep. Delicious as pot roast or as a French-dip type sandwich! (Gluten-Free) 

This simple, yet delicious recipe surpassed my expectations! I usually skip by pot roast recipes, because I love and always go back to my favorite gluten-free pot roast.

But now that this recipe has entered my life, I will definitely be switching it up on a regular basis. This is one of the best slow-cooker recipes I’ve ever made! It is so savory, so flavorful, and so easy to make.

Add this to your meal planning this week! It not only makes a delicious pot roast paired with your favorite comforting sides to feed a crowd, but also makes a mouth-watering sandwich. If you love balsamic try this Balsamic Glaze from Evolving Table! You also might like this sirloin tip roast.

My family loved this on toasted Trader Joe’s GF hamburger buns with the sauce leftover from cooking for dipping. (Think french dip sandwich, made gluten-free…) If you make it as a sandwich and can eat dairy, try adding aioli, provolone cheese or blue cheese crumbles, or both!

Every time I make a slow-cooker recipe I think that I need to make more slow-cooker recipes. As a Mom of 2 littles, the “witching hour” is a real and true phenomenon. Somehow the hours of 4:30-6:30 are always the craziest of the day, with the baby wanting to be held until bedtime, my 4-year-old wanting to get his paint set out right before dinner, the dishes needing to be done and general hungriness for all.

Slow-cooker meals make me oh so happy when the prep work and dishes are already done, the house smells great, and I know everyone will eating something delicious. I also love, love slow-cooker meals on Sunday. I can’t think of a better smell home to come home to any day of the week!

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Slow-Cooker Balsamic Roast Beef {Gluten-Free}

Author Erin Collins

Prep Time 10 minutes mins

Cook Time 6 hours hrs

Total Time 6 hours hrs 10 minutes mins

Servings 6 -8 servings

This is one of my all-time favorite beef slow-cooker recipes! It tastes delicious as a pot roast with mashed potatoes or your other favorite pot roast sides. It also tastes amazing as a sandwich. I like to save the liquid from cooking the beef for dipping the sandwiches. 

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Ingredients

• ▢ 1 3-4 pound boneless roast beef chuck or round roast
• ▢ 2 tablespoons oil I use avocado oil
• ▢ salt & pepper
• ▢ 1 1/2 cups beef broth divided
• ▢ 3/4 cup balsamic vinegar
• ▢ 2 tablespoons Worcestershire sauce
• ▢ 2 tablespoons gluten-free soy sauce
• ▢ 2 tablespoons honey
• ▢ 1 1/2 teaspoon red pepper flakes
• ▢ 4 cloves garlic chopped

For serving: (optional)

• ▢ Toasted GF buns
• ▢ Provolone cheese or blue cheese crumbles or both!

Instructions 

• In a large skillet, heat the oil until shimmering over medium-high heat. Season the outside of the roast generously with salt and pepper. Brown the roast on all sides. (You can skip this step, but I think it makes a huge difference and makes the flavor even better!)
• Transfer the roast to the slow-cooker. There should be some brown pieces in the bottom of the skillet now. Over medium heat, pour in 1/2 cup of beef broth to deglaze the pan, scraping up the brown bits. Pour the liquid into the slow-cooker.
• Add the remaining ingredients to the slow-cooker. Cook on high for 4-6 hours or low for 6-8 hours.
• Shred the beef into chunks with a fork, removing any pieces of fat. Serve as a pot roast with your favorite sides or on toasted buns with the liquid for dipping. Enjoy!

Notes

My favorite gluten-free buns are from Trader Joe's. Be sure to use gluten-free balsamic vinegar, Worcestershire sauce, soy sauce and beef broth (not all of these ingredients are GF!) in this recipe. Sometimes I cut my chuck roasts in half when I buy them and they usually end up being around 1.5lbs. If you use a smaller roast, half the sauce.

Nutrition

Calories: 651kcal | Carbohydrates: 13g | Protein: 59g | Fat: 39g | Saturated Fat: 15g | Cholesterol: 208mg | Sodium: 879mg | Potassium: 1147mg | Sugar: 11g | Vitamin A: 190IU | Vitamin C: 1.4mg | Calcium: 73mg | Iron: 7.2mg

Recipe Adapted from Add a Pinch