Easy Slow Cooker Venison Roast Recipe

Crock-Pot Meals Are The Easiest And This Slow Cooker Venison Roast Recipe Is No Exception

What mom doesn’t like “easy” when it comes to planning supper for her family? This mom definitely does. It seems like my schedule, and I am sure yours too, is busy and never-ending. Believe me when I say that my Crock-Pot is my most used cooking tool. I used it at LEAST once a week. Just throw and go. My infamous “Slow Cooker Venison Roast Recipe” is not only my favorite. True, that it takes no effort at all to prepare. But it’s also one of my husband’s favorites because it tastes so yummy.

Hunting for our family isn’t about killing. It’s about providing food for our family. It’s about filling our freezer each fall to tide us over until the next hunting season. Our family goes through the meat.

The best part, for me, is when I get to reach into our freezer and pull out a package of deer meat that “I” harvested. I feel like I’ve really contributed when I look inside our freezer and see what God blessed me with for that season. I take pride in it and to be honest, I pull out MY meat first.

My husband will say, “Kelly, it’s ALL of our meat. Not just yours!” But when I’m the one doing the cooking you can bet that I remind them just who’s deer it is with EVERY bite.

Simplicity Of Only Four Ingredients

What I love the most about this recipe, one that I’ve tweaked for our family, that it only requires FOUR ingredients. A venison/deer roast. A bag of baby carrots. Five to six potatoes. And a package of Lipton’s Beefy Onion Soup Mix in the packets.

That’s it.

I don’t know about you but I LOVE the smell of something cooking all night in the house. It’s almost as comforting as the turkey cooking all morning on Thanksgiving Day. Something about the aroma of home cooking spread throughout the house that reminds me of being a kid. I love that feeling.

So a lot of times I’ll put the venison/deer roast on late at night so that I can SLEEP with that deer roast fragrance sneaking into my dream state. Nothing puts me to sleep deeper than the smell of something cooking.

My mom passed away in 2009 and anytime I can go down memory lane with her I do. She was a great cook and always prepared HUGE meals. Our home was always filled with the smell of something tasty. Her homemade vegetable soup “smell” on Sundays will forever be my NUMBER ONE favorite though. Go Chiefs!

Slow Cooker Venison (Deer) Roast Recipe

1-deer roast (size depending on the number of people)

1- pkg of baby carrots

1 – a packet of Lipton Beefy Onion Soup Mix

5 – small potatoes quartered (I leave mine unpeeled)

First, I take my thawed venison/deer roast out of the paper and rinse thoroughly. I, then place it at the bottom of the Crock-Pot.

One packet of soup mix and I dump that on top of the roast.

Half of the bag of the baby carrots is usually what works for us. However, you can add as many as you want. I use a smaller Crock-Pot for my husband and me. Whenever I use our larger pot, obviously I will add more. But when it’s just the two of us I keep it light.

Lastly, I add about five quartered potatoes. You don’t have to do it that way. I like chunky potatoes. I’m sure Mom did it that way so, in keeping with tradition, I do also. But it’s really to your preference.

Next, I put enough water to just cover all the ingredients.

Don’t Rush It If You Don’t Have To

Depending on what time of day you put the venison roast on will determine how long you set it for. If I’m doing it overnight I will set it for 8 hours. Actually, even if I get it ready in the morning I still set it for 8 hours.

I NEVER rush it.

There’s something so delicious about venison (deer) roast that just falls apart when you get it out of the Crock-Pot. When it slow cooks all day it just seems to taste better. It’s more tender.

As far as the seasonings go, the soup mix adds the best flavor. I love my garlic powder and garlic salt so in my recipes those two things are just a given.

Once you get everything in and the Crock-Pot set, you’re good to go! Just make sure it’s on a solid counter and pushed back so it can’t be knocked off.

Make Certain Your Crock-Pot Is In A Safe Location

We had our dog get up on the counter once and eat an entire plate of fried deer steaks. My husband has shot a deer during archery season and I had literally just finished frying up supper. He needed me to help him track the deer so I covered and pushed the plate back as far on the counter as it would go.

Although our dog wasn’t that tall she was tall enough to get up on the counter. She pulled the paper towel that the steaks were on down to the floor. Needless to say, when I got back we had NOTHING to eat.

Lesson learned.

If you’re wanting something that takes very little prep time but will be a dish that your family requests, THIS slow cooker venison roast recipe will be one you’ll come to love. It’s quick. It’s cheap. And the cleanup is easy.

But most importantly it will be a recipe that was not only cooked with your two hands but also harvested with your two hands…and your heart.