This has quickly become a family favorite. I can’t even begin to tell you just how great this recipe really is. First off its super easy to make because you are simple dropping everything in the crock pot and letting it do all of the work. Second this recipe is do die for! The flavor of the meat along with the sauce it produces is something special. I had a feeling it would be good, but I had no idea it would be this GOOD.
I was a rock star with my family that night. I don’t think I have ever gotten that many compliments. I ended up serving the roast on toasted white bread then I served the au jus on the side for dipping the sandwich in. My husband said it was the best French dip sandwich he had ever had in his life. I know this recipe has been passed around a few times so I don’t really know who the original poster is, but I do know who I got it from and that is “A perfectly lovely ordinary day.” If you don’t make this recipe you are truly missing out.
This story does have a heartbreaking end though…. That night after dinner my husband and I were already dreaming of the leftovers for lunch when all of the sudden a 5lb. block of mozzarella cheese hit the covered container containing our delectable dinner and shot it across the kitchen and it broke up and splattered all over the place. I don’t know what made me want to cry more the loss of the fantastic roast, the money that was wasted, the fact that my lunch for the next day the eat was scarfing down as fast as her mouth would move, or the fact that it was going to take me an hour to clean up the mess. *SIGH* I guess we will just HAVE to make it again ;-)
Ingredients:
- Chuck Roast (I used a 4 pound roast any size will work)
- Hidden Valley ranch dressing
- McCormick Au Jus mix
- 1 stick of butter (I used margarine)
- 5 pepperoncini peppers
Directions:
- Add Chuck Roast to the crock pot
- Sprinkle Hidden Valley ranch dressing on top of the roast
- Sprinkle McCormick Au Jus mix on top of the ranch
- Put a stick of butter on top of the au jus
- Put about 5 pepperoncini peppers on top. (Find in the pickle section of the store)
- Do NOT add water.
- Cook in crock pot on low for about 8 hours. (Mine was done in 6 on low)
Take Note: You can discard the pepperoncini peppers when the roast is done if you would like. My husband ate them on his sandwich and loved them.
*The pepperoncini peppers really do send this dish over the top so don’t skip them*
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| I forgot to add the peppers before I took the picture |
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