When I was leafing through one of my favorite cookbooks recently, Miss Mary Bobo’s Boarding House Cookbook: A Celebration of Traditional Southern Dishes that Made Miss Mary Bobo’s an American Legend, a recipe for Pot Roast caught my eye. It had a can of cranberry sauce in it. I had never heard of using cranberry sauce for pot roast, but after researching pot roasts with cranberry sauce on the internet, I see it’s a fairly common thing.

And I do love Cranberry Meatballs, so I thought why not Cranberry Pot Roast?

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Well, it turns out the pot roast doesn’t really taste like cranberries at all. But the sauce really develops a wonderful, almost indescribable flavor with just a slight sweetness and it has a fabulous deep reddish-brown color.

Slow Cooker Pot Roast is super easy and has tons of flavor from dry onion soup mix, tomato sauce, and cranberry sauce.

How To Serve

There’s really nothing like a pot roast cooked in the crock pot. A cheap piece of meat turns into the most succulent, tender, juicy, and flavorful meal. I like to serve this pot roast over either egg noodles or mashed potatoes with a side of peas. Actually, I like to mix the peas in with the pot roast, but my family objects to that. Pea haters. I don’t understand them. A side of Yeast Rolls goes wonderfully with this roast.

If you have an Instant Pot, try this delicious Pot Roast Recipe!

Pot Roast over buttered noodles and a bowl of peas.

What Type Of Meat To Use?

I find that chuck roast is the best cut of meat to use for pot roast. It cooks up wonderfully tender and it has ample fat to make a super flavorful pot roast.