This is a delicious way to make beef for tacos in place of ground beef tacos or steak tacos (soft or crunchy) or even enchiladas! Top it with tangy horseradish sauce or homemade salsa for a fresh taste.
Leftovers can be turned into quesadillas, taquitos, or serve over homemade arepas for lunch the next day! Use it to replace ground beef in a taco ring for a party favorite!
Quesadillas are super easy, place a tortilla in a nonstick pan and top with a little cheese, some meat filling, and your favorite veggies. Fold in half and cook until crisped… flip and crisp the other side! Easy and amazing!
Don’t skip out on browning the roast first, this adds delicious flavor (as does adding homemade taco seasoning)! Once cooked, I find the easiest way to strain and skim the liquid is to pour it out of the slow cooker into my gravy separator. This separates the peppers & onions and allows all of the fat to easily be removed.
To keep this recipe low carb, skip the tortillas and turn it into a taco salad!
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Slow Cooker Shredded Beef (Perfect for Tacos or Enchiladas!)
Equipment
Ingredients
- 28 ounces enchilada sauce
- 1 large onion diced
- 1 jalapeño pepper seeded and chopped (optional)
- 2 cloves garlic sliced
- 1 teaspoon ground cumin
- ½ teaspoon chili powder
- 3-4 pounds chuck roast
Instructions
- Rub the beef with cumin and chili powder. Brown on all sides in a medium-hot non-stick pan.
- Place the onions, jalapeño and garlic into the slow cooker. Add the roast. Pour enchilada sauce over top.
- Cook on low 8-10 hours. Remove the beef to a large platter. Using 2 forks, shred the beef disposing of any fat.
- Skim any fat off the remaining liquid. Remove the onions and peppers and all except approx. 1 cup from the slow cooker. Add the shredded beef to the sauce in the slow cooker and stir. Add the reserved liquid until you reach the desired consistency.
- Serve in tacos or use in enchiladas. You can serve the onions/peppers on the side if desired
Nutrition Information
Nutrition information provided is an estimate and will vary based on cooking methods and brands of ingredients used.
Course Dinner
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This tasted great! We used it for quesadillas. I am getting ready to make it again and this will be a regular recipe. Its also going to replace my other “carne asada” recipe. This one is much more simple and easy and the result was much better! Thank you
Enchilada sauce is unavailable where I live. Do you have a recipe for those of us who want to make this recipe. Thanks!
We certainly do Marcy! Try this homemade enchilada sauce recipe.
Hi! I’m new to your blog! You have so many delicious recipes! I made this one tonight and my entire family loved it! It was so flavorful and just enough spice, my 11-month old age it without a problem! He loved it! Thank you for a great recipe, we were getting sick of the standard ground beef tacos, this was a nice change.
I’m so glad your family loved this, we love it too!
I made this tonight and we loved it. For anyone wondering it’s not spicy, but does have really great flavor. I actually cooked a 2 lb chuck on low and it was perfect for shredding and still so juicy after 7 hours on low. Thank you for this easy wonderful recipe.
So glad you loved it, thank you for sharing!
This looks delicious….when do you use the garlic cloves?
Oops! In step 2. I updated the recipe, thanks so much!
This is right up my alley! Thanks for linking up with What’s Cookin’ Wednesday!
Delicious easy to make tacos at home. Thanks for sharing with Hearth and Soul blog hop. pinning.
Nice recipe. Thank you Holly.
Hi Holly,
What a great recipe for Slow Cooker Tacos, looks delicious! Hope you are having a fantastic weekend and thanks so much for sharing this awesome post with Full Plate Thursday.
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Miz Helen
Yum Yum!! I love a shredded beef taco or enchalada!! I bet the sauce makes it seasoned just right!!
This looks so good and easy for a work day!
These look great! I need more yummy crockpot recipes. Pinned it!