I am making my first pot roast, with minimal ingredients, can you help me?

It depends on how you are cooking it . If you want to put it in the crock pot season with salt and pepper, brown in frying pan with er or canola or both make sure it's nice and brown,put sliced onions on the bottom of the crock pot along with carrots chunked up add 1/4 cup of water Cook until tender pulls apart with a fork. This will take a while around six hours, or more I like the flavor of a chuck roast.