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!

Slow-Cooker Balsamic Roast Beef {Gluten-Free}
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!
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Recipe Adapted from Add a Pinch
You’re right about this being one easy dinner! It’s so tasty and we LOVE slow cooker meals in our house. The whole house smelled delicious too!
could you make this and then freeze it to be warmed up later?
could this go well with Parmesan cheese instead? i have parmareggio i would like to use up and i love balsamic…
I’m sitting in my kitchen enjoy the glorious smell of this roast as I type this. I’m impatiently awaiting the return of my husband and four year old son so that we can gobble it up!
I also love crock pot recipes for the same reason as you, the moment I start to prepare dinner…BAM…craziness ensues!
Thanks so much for sharing it! I’ll be making it again for sure!
Erin, this recipe is ah-mazing! I made it Sunday night for the fam, and were all were blown away! Thank you! (I only had a 1.5 lb deer roast, so I halved the sauce and it worked beautifully!).
I’m so happy you enjoyed it!
I can just tell the texture of that beef is phenomenal from your pictures. Great post.
Thank you!