Crock Pot Italian Roast

I enjoyed participating in Crock Pot Wednesdays last week at Dining With Debbie. (I featured my favorite Beef Stew Recipe). I didn't get to the lemon chicken I planned to make this week. Therefore, all yesterday and today, I thought that it was too bad I wouldn't participate, but at least I'd go and check out the recipes. I thought this right up until Tuesday morning when I cut my roast in half and dumped it...in my crock pot. I would have a recipe to share this week after all!

Italian Roast Wraps is a new recipe I found on Laura's Heavenly Homemakers site. (One of my favorite blogs). Before today, I have never been too successful at cooking a roast in the crock pot. I had a pretty good barbecue roast recipe, but I also wanted a non tomato recipe. My roasts typically ended up over cooked, dry, and chewy. I decided to try one final time. It was so worth it. This recipe is absolutely incredible. It is moist and flavorful. My husband loved it as well! In her recipe, she serves it in a wrap with tomatoes and sour cream. Ben declared it was so good, we should just have it plain. So we did.

Italian Roast Wraps

This is going in my permanent family cookbook. I love it and will make it again.

Notes: I used a frozen 2.5lb rump roast (and I was very skeptical that it wouldn't cook in time) and it cooked perfectly in the five hours allotted.

I had to cut the roast in half to make it fit in the crock pot.

Also, the recipe didn't say whether to trim the fat before I cooked it, so I left it on and trimmed it afterward. (Plus it I froze it before I thought about trimming the fat, and I didn't want to deal with it once I considered it).

I ended up using a whole packet of Italian seasoning. I think half wouldn't have been enough.