Asian Beef & Noodles Pot Roast with Broccoli Recipe

Give your next pot roast a little Asian fusion by serving it with broccoli, green onions, and sweet chili sauce over soba noodles.

📋 What's New In This Post (4/9/26) - Added new photos and tips.

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• Pot Roast Asian Fusion
• Ingredients
• Best Ways to Cook the Beef
• Tips
• Asian Beef Pot Roast with Noodles

Ingredients

Here is what you need to gather from the grocery store or your pantry:

• Chuck roast - For flavor and texture, a chuck roast is the superior cut for pot roast. To learn more check out my post Chuck Roast - Best Cut for Pot Roast
• Beef stock or broth - Look for lower sodium beef stock, so you can better control the salt. Also note that a lot of store bought beef stock contains added sugar. It is important to read the labels. If you can make it yourself that would be the best.
• Salt - In my recipe I prefer to use either Diamond Crystal kosher salt or Redmond Real Salt.
• Freshly ground black pepper - Don't buy pepper that has already been ground. Get a pepper grinder and grind it fresh yourself for the best flavor. Besides black peppercorns there are numerous other varieties of peppercorns.
• Fresh Garlic - When you buy fresh garlic from the grocery store it often ends up sprouting when you cut into it. Discard any garlic that is already green on the inside as it won't taste as good. Buying fresh garlic during the late spring and early summer will ensure you get the best quality.
• Cooking Oil - You will be using oil to brown the chuck roast to start. Use any cooking oil that you like. I typically prefer something that is a neutral flavor for this, like grapeseed or sunflower oil.
• Fresh Ginger - Fatter pieces of ginger are easier to peel than thin ginger.
• Ground Cinnamon - It may seem like a strange ingredient for a beef dish but trust me it will only enhance the flavor of the beef, not make it taste like cinnamon rolls.
• Broccoli - More stores just sell broccoli crowns nowadays. This is broccoli with most of the stem removed.
• Soba noodles - These noodles are made with buckwheat flour and can be found in any Asian grocery store or in the Asian section of any major grocery store chain.

🛒 Grocery Shopping Tips - Sometimes Kroger stores will have Chuck Roasts - buy one get one free, so that is when you buy one for now and freeze one for later. In recent years Costco has had the best price for chuck roast. You usually get two in a package.

Best Ways to Cook the Beef

You could either do it the fast way or the slow way. The recipe I have below is the quick way as I cook the beef in the Instant Pot. This allows dinner to be ready a lot sooner.

⏲️ Time - You are going to set your Instant Pot to 90 minutes at high pressure.

But you could also cook it in a slow cooker. You follow the same directions but instead of putting the beef in the Instant Pot you will put it in the slow cooker for 4 hours on high or 8 hours on low.

Tips

Here are some things you don't want to miss in the instructions of this recipe:

• You don't want to use non-stick pan when you are browning the meat. This is because you want some brown bits to be stuck to the bottom of the pan.
• When the meat is done browning you will use about ½ cup of the beef stock and scrape all the brown bits off the bottom of the pan.

• Once you have put all the seasonings into the liquid taste it before adding the beef. You want it to be strongly seasoned. If it is not to your liking add more of whatever ingredient until it is. Then add in your beef.
• When you boil the soba noodles, you want to do so in water that tastes like the ocean. Salt the water until it tastes salty before bringing it to a rolling boil. This will season your noodles as they cook instead of adding salt in the end, which makes it less likely you are going to over salt your food.
• I always cook the broccoli completely separately so I can make sure it is done to my liking.