Shredded Beef. This Mexican Shredded Beef has incredible depth of flavour! The sauce is really rich and thick, and there is PLENTY of it. Fantastic for tacos, burritos, enchiladas and quesadillas, piled high on Mexican Red Rice or stuffed in rolls to make sliders!
Slow Cooker Shredded Beef is perfect to add to so many delicious dishes and recipes.
Make this simple beef recipe to keep on hand for so many easy dinner recipes.
Making Slow Cooker Shredded Beef to have on hand for recipes throughout the week has to be one of my favorite things ever.
You can cook Shredded Beef using 9 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you achieve that.
Ingredients of Shredded Beef
- It's 1 teaspoon of cumin.
- You need 2 teaspoon of chili powder.
- You need 1/2 teaspoon of smoked paprika.
- Prepare 1 of small can hatch chili (optional).
- You need 1 cup of beef broth.
- Prepare 2 tablespoon of olive oil.
- You need 1 of small onion diced.
- It's 2-2.5 pound of chuck roast.
- Prepare 2 tablespoons of tomato paste.
Place the roast in a Dutch oven; add broth, onion and celery. Dinner just got easier thanks to this amazing slow cooker shredded beef. It is so easy and very versatile. You have tons of options with this delicious shredded beef.
Shredded Beef instructions
- Mix dry seasonings and rub onto all sides of roast.
- Add 2 tablespoon of olive oil to pan, stovetop should be on medium high to high to get a good sear on the roast..
- Sear all sides of roast for about 2 minutes.
- Place roast in slow cooker.
- To searing pan, add diced onion and sauté for 2-3 minutes stirring to deglaze.
- Add beef broth, tomato paste, and hatch chili to onions and simmer until sauce is reduced..
- Pour sauce over roast in the slow cooker..
- Place slow cooker on high for 3-4 hours or low for 5-6 hours.
- Shred beef and use some of the remaining juice to keep beef moist. Serve as taco meat or as a mixed bowl similar to chipotle. You won’t be disappointed!.
- I recommend using the leftover juice to make rice. 1 cup rice, 2 cups juice for 25 mins..
We love to use the shredded beef to make BBQ sandwiches, burritos and more. Set out the beef in the slow cooker on warm, along with tortillas, bowls of shredded cheese, salsa, sour cream, and chopped lettuce, jalapenos, onions and tomatoes. Sprinkle roast with salt and pepper. In a nonstick skillet, brown roast in oil on all sides over medium-high heat; drain. And it's the… This Mexican shredded beef is an adapted version of the one that my husband Jack made many years ago, when he worked at the popular Edgewater Café, in Magnolia, Massachusetts.