Slow-Cooked Pork Roast in Crock Pot
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This slow-cooked pork roast recipe is as easy as they come. Slow-cooked in cream of mushroom soup, it’s easy to make, and so tender and flavorful.
This slow cooker pork roast recipe is one of my husband’s favorite meals and mine, too! The pork roast is so tender it falls off the bone and I have to spoon the pieces out of the crock pot to put on a plate. It cuts easily with the slightest pressure of a fork and the taste is every bit as good as you’d expect.
Plus, recipes don’t come any easier than this (why I love slow cooker recipes). Place your pork shoulder butt roast in the slow cooker along with a can of cream of mushroom soup and whatever veggies you desire. Then walk away and come back at the end of the day to a ready-made supper. Minimal ingredients and instructions is my kind of main meal!
For a full meal, I toss some carrots in with the pork roast, fry up some corn the day before, and cook it fully to store in the fridge and reheat right before the meal. Then all I have to do to have supper ready is whip up some mashed potatoes, make some bread, and make the tea! Of course, my dessert was made a day or two ahead of time as well and sits happily in the fridge alongside the corn.
I love making part of my meal ahead of time, especially on the weekends. It’s easy when you have dinner guests or a special meal to plan so you are out of the kitchen and enjoying the time as much as everyone else, all it takes is a little creative meal planning. So today, I’m gonna do that for you.
What You’ll Need to Make Slow-Cooked Pork Roast:
Ingredients:
- Bone-in pork shoulder butt roast (also known as a Boston pork butt roast)
- Baby carrots
- Cream of mushroom soup
- Potatoes and onion (optional)
How to Make Slow-Cooked Pork Roast:
Put your pork roast in the crock pot.
Nestle the carrots, potatoes, and onions (if you so choose to use them) around the pork roast.
Pour a can of cream of mushroom soup all over everything.
Cover and slow cook on low for 7 to 8 hours or on high for 3 to 4 hours.
I like to cook mine about an hour longer than it calls for when I make this roast because I love it extra tender.
The meat should be super tender when it’s finished, so just use two forks to pull the meat apart and serve! And don’t forget to scoop up all those delicious veggies and get them on the plate.
Enjoy your crock pot pork roast dinner!
Storage
Store leftover slow cooker pork roast in an airtight container in the fridge for up to 5 days. Serve cold or quickly reheat in the microwave. I love to make for lunch the next day with leftovers. YUM.
Recipe Notes
- Substitute the cream of mushroom soup for cream of celery soup or cream of chicken soup.
- You can use a variety of pork cuts: bone-in pork shoulder, pork butt, boneless pork roast, and pork loin. If you use pork loin, this leaner cut of meat will only need about 5 hours of low cooking time in the slow cooker.
- If you want to add onion and potatoes, quarter the potatoes (or sweet potatoes) or use whole baby potatoes. Another root vegetable that would work is fennel.
Recipe FAQs
Can you put raw pork in the slow cooker?
Yes, you can! However, if you want, you can quickly sear the pork roast just until brown in a skillet and then place it in the slow cooker. Browning the meat just helps to add more flavor.
How long should you cook your pork roast in the crockpot?
You can cook your pork shoulder roast for up to 8 hours on low in the slow cooker.
How do you prevent your pork roast from drying out?
You need to add some sort of liquid to the crockpot alongside the pork roast to prevent it from drying out. In this instance, we’re using canned soup to make the pork extra flavorful and juicy.
Plan-Ahead Father’s Day Dinner Menu
If you’d like to serve your crock pot pork roast as a for Father’s Day or a celebratory , here’s a sample plan-ahead Father’s Day dinner menu with lots of corresponding blog posts. Enjoy!
2-3 days before: make dessert
I prefer a refrigerator cake as these are easy to make ahead of time and only improve as they sit in the fridge. Here are some refrigerator cakes on Southern Plate that are awfully good!
1-2 days before: shuck and fry corn
Place finished corn in the fridge and just microwave it before the meal or heat it in a pot on the stove. You can also make sweet and sour green beans at this time instead of or to go along with the fried fresh corn.
Day of meal: cook pork roast in crock pot and make the bread, mashed potatoes, and tea
Here are some bread options:
- Hoe Cake
- Homemade Dinner Rolls
- Dixie Cornbread
- Store-bought rolls
Ingredients
- 1 can cream of mushroom soup
- baby carrots
- 1 pork roast
Instructions
- Place the pork roast in the slow cooker and add your preferred vegetables. Pour the canned soup over it all.1 can cream of mushroom soup, baby carrots, 1 pork roast
- Slow cook on low for 7 to 8 hours or on high for 3 to 4 hours. Serve!
You may also like these pork recipes:
Pan-Seared Pork Chops with Velvet Cream Sauce
Crock Pot Pulled Pork Recipe, Southern-Style
Asian Pork Tenderloin Skillet (Quick & Budget-Friendly)
Juicy Pork Burgers (with a surprise ingredient!)
Crispy Breaded Pork Chops with Milk Gravy
TODAY IS A GREAT DAY JUST WAITING TO HAPPEN!
Happiness isn’t getting what you want, it’s wanting what you got.
– Dale Carnegie
I use beer instead of pop. This is an old recipe.
All you folks who’ve given up on your crock pots! ACKKK! Try this:
3-5 pound rump roast
1 Package Good Seasons Italian Dressing Mix
1 Package Ranch Dressing Mix
1 Package Beef Gravy Mix
Mix the dry ingredients together, put roast in crock pot, pour dry ingredients over roast, add 1/2 cup of water and cook on low for 8-9 hours. Add no salt or pepper–there’s plenty in the seasonings. The last hour of cooking, add mushrooms if you like.
It’s slap yo mama good!! You’ll fall in love with your crock pot all over again.
that does sound good.
I also really like your website. I’m 77 years old, but am not too old to learn new recipes or ways of cooking. I live alone so have to downsize most of the recipes, but haven’t had any problems. In answer to your fan, Jan. My daughter never learned to sew and I’ve been sewing and loving it for most of my life (I have six sewing machines, including an embroidery and two sergers). But recently she started to sew purses, and has decided that sewing is “fun”. Of course, I’ve been telling her that for years. She has learned a lot from internet websites that teach all kinds of sewing techniques. Also, she has started me using my crockpot more than I used to. Keep up the good work, Cristy, and I’ll keep watching.
Hi Chirsty~
Longtime lurker here, I love, love, love your website!! Mostly because I went to college in the south and spent weekends at my roommates’ house… Mmmm. Best Cooking Ever. We’d go home for the wekend, get laundry done, get homework done, get advice from her parents (they took me in as one of their own), and had some hilarious conversations about southern cooking. I was raised in Maine, so when they told me we were having hushpuppies with dinner, I was confused… aren’t hushpuppies shoes?? Well, it was quite an education, and I now have a soft-spot for southern cooking as it brings back fond memories of my beloved ‘other family’.
I have some questions for you (or your readers!!) that I thought you might know the answers to:
1. I was wondering about the creamy soup, and if it wouldn’t be healthier to use broth or water, but you’ve answered that one already, thanks! I didn’t know that fat was necessary to make meat more tender, but it certainly makes sense now.
2. I don’t actually own a crock-pot yet, but am getting married next year and have started looking at crock-pots for our registry. Any suggestions? Every model I research seems to have negative reviews about heating too high… have you had luck with a certain brand, or specific elements a slow cooker should have (wattage, retractable cord, size, handles, etc)? I realize this may be a polarizing question, but I thought I’d go straight to the source for this one! We are on a pretty tight budget, so I think that a crock pot would be a good tool for us to invest in (or be blessed with) to help us eat well and remain true to our budget.
I guess that’s it for questions. I would like to thank you for your beautiful site. Home Ec wasn’t really required in our school district, so I took the minimum offered and can barely sew a button. At the time I thought that being taught how to cook and sew were either boring or sexist. Now I regret the fact that I don’t instinctively know how to make a meal for less, or how to re-purpose goods or ingredients. I’m learnig though, and am very excited about this.
So thank you for your helpful tips and easy to follow steps. Your gracious and cheerful nature truly shine through your website and make me feel like it’s just the two of us sitting in your kitchen. Good luck with your gardens and settling in to the new house. And please give my best to your mama.
Keep up the good work, it’s appreciated here in New York City!!
Jen
Try the Boston Butt in the slow-cooker with Apple Cider Vinegar and Molasses. I don’t have any measurements. I just grease cooker with oil spray, place butt in with fat on top, pour in the vinegar and molasses. This is soooo good. I remove the butt, chop and add my own bbq sauce. Leftovers freeze well.
Just read your old comment from 2009. It’s imaginative and I may add some coke and onion soup mix. Great reading!
You make ur pork roast just like I do!!!
I also do pulled pork in the slow cooker…using a little brewed coffee and beef stock. After it’s been shredded I put in back in the crock with homemade bar-b-que sauce for another hour and mmmmm….bar-b-que pork sandwiches. I’ll have to try this version.