Slow Cooker Beef au Jus Recipe

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It's easy to fix this roast, which has lots of onion flavor. Sometimes I also add cubed potatoes and baby carrots to the slow cooker to make a terrific meal plus leftovers. --Carol Hille of Grand Junction, Colorado
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Slow Cooker Beef au Jus Recipe

Prep: 20 min. Cook: 6 hours + standing

Yield: 10 Servings

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Ingredients

1 beef rump roast or bottom round roast (3 pounds)
1 large onion, sliced
3/4 cup reduced-sodium beef broth
1 envelope (1 ounce) au jus gravy mix
2 garlic cloves, halved
1/4 teaspoon pepper

Directions

Cut roast in half. In a large nonstick skillet coated with cooking spray, brown meat on all sides over medium-high heat.
Place onion in a 5-qt. slow cooker. Top with meat. Combine the broth, gravy mix, garlic and pepper; pour over meat. Cover and cook on low for 6-7 hours or until meat is tender.
Remove meat to a cutting board. Let stand for 10 minutes. Thinly slice meat and return to the slow cooker; serve with cooking juices and onion. Yield: 10 servings.

Nutritional Analysis: One serving (3ounces cooked beef with 1/4 cup pan juices) equals 188 calories, 7 g fat (2 g saturated fat), 82 mg cholesterol, 471 mg sodium, 3 g carbohydrate, trace fiber, 28 g protein. Diabetic Exchanges: 3 lean meat.

Originally published as Slow Cooker Beef Au Jus in Light & Tasty August/September 2004, p31