Name: Famous Mississippi Pot Roast - Recipe
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 300 min
Total time: 310 min
Ingredients: 1 boneless chuck roast (about 3 pounds.); 1 tablespoon salt; 1 teaspoon black pepper; 4 tablespoons flour; 3 tablespoons vegetable oil; 1 stick butter; 8 ounces pepperoncini pepper (or more to your preference); 3 tablespoons mayonnaise; 1 tablespoon apple cider vinegar; 1 teaspoon dried dill; 1 teaspoon paprika; 1 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce; 1 teaspoon your favorite Louisiana style hot sauce; 1 teaspoon buttermilk (optional)

A recipe for making the practically infamous slow cooker beef roast that took the Internet by storm! Delicious and fork tender, made with chuck roast, pepperoncinis and loads of seasonings.

When “Chile Pepper Magazine” asked me for ideas for their current “One-Pot” cooking issue, I knew I had to make Mississippi Pot Roast. If you’ve been on the Internet at in all in the last year, you’ve probably seen a recipe for Mississippi Pot Roast.

It has spread like digital wildfire through the intertubes, finding its way onto blogs of every type and published pages galore.

By the time everyone knew about it, I still hadn’t tried it. I make slow cooker beef roast all the time. My thought was, how could this recipe be so special? Does it really taste THAT good?

I had to know for myself.

Where Did Mississippi Pot Roast Come From?

It’s an interesting story, really. It started when a couple of Mississippi natives put the recipe in their church cookbook and it eventually took off, mostly because it’s so darned tasty.

So yeah, full disclosure – this is NOT my recipe.

I didn’t invent it, but after making it and trying it for myself, I can certainly say – YES! I really like Mississippi Pot Roast!

Good stuff, my friends. The combination of ingredients truly melds with beef that is slow cooked until it is deliciously fork tender. Patty and I were practically eating the roast out of the pot.

No joke.

I won’t say it’s the absolute BEST slow cooker beef roast I’ve ever made, but DANG if it isn’t up there, which is sort of surprising because of the ingredients list.

Seriously, I’d eat this any time, all day long. Want to watch me eat a whole pot roast? Make this for me.

Recipe Notes

The original recipe calls for beef, butter, au jus gravy mix and a package of Hidden Valley Ranch dressing mix, along with pepperoncini peppers. I like to stay away from the dry packet stuff, so am sharing a slightly altered version that is just as tasty.

You can also make this in a slow cooker. It isn’t very spicy, FYI. The only real spiciness comes from the inclusion of pepperoncini peppers, which have a little bit of a kick, but not much for the seasoned chilihead. I added extra pepperoncinis to my recipe, though feel free to adapt and include as many as you’d like.

The recipe can stand up easily to more of them. Feel free to slip in a few hotter peppers, too, for a nice adaptation.

Let me know what you think! You’ve probably made this by now already! Send your thoughts! If not, give it a go, asap, and send word. — Mike H.

Adapted from: http://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1017937-mississippi-roast

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