Mississippi-Style Pot Roast

Five things in a pot and eight hours of ignoring it.

⏱ 8 hr · easy · 🍽 serves 6

Ingredients

• 4 lb chuck roast
• 1 stick butter
• 10 pepperoncini, plus 1/4 cup of their brine
• 1 tbsp dried dill
• 1 tsp garlic powder
• 1 tsp onion powder
• 2 tsp kosher salt
• 1 tsp black pepper

Steps

1. Season the roast heavily with salt and pepper and sear it hard on all sides in a hot pan. This is the only real work.
2. Put it in a slow cooker or a Dutch oven with a lid.
3. Mix the dill, garlic powder and onion powder and scatter over the top.
4. Lay the butter on the meat, scatter the pepperoncini around it and pour in the brine. Add no other liquid.
5. Cook on low 8 hours in a slow cooker, or at 300F for 4 hours covered, until it shreds with a fork.
6. Shred and toss through the buttery juices.