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Good lord yes. Brown it or don't, your call. Add 1/2 cup buttermilk to the braise, with onions, garlic and seasonings. Add quartered potato and carrot in the last few hours.

I do it all the time. Get a chuck roast, season it with paprika and salt and then brown it in a regular pot with a touch of oil. Transfer roast and drippings to crockpot with a pack of Lipton onion soup, just a little cream of mushrooms, and add some smoked sausage. In the pot you used to brown meat with, brown down some trinity and then add it to the crockpot. Leave that all day and make some rice.

How else do you make a roast rice and gravy?

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On the stove? In the oven? In a pressure cooker?

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That's sounds like witchcraft to me.

I like to purée some of the veggies after to thicken the gravy.