Recipe: Crock Pot Beef Carne Asada Tacos
These tacos are off the chain. A lovely piece of flank steak gets a spicy rubdown before sitting in the crock pot for eight hours with onion, bell pepper and jalapeno. Never thought to put steak in the crock pot? Well, let me tell you—it can be done!
Ingredients
- 2 lbs flank steak
- 1 yellow onion, chopped
- 1 green bell pepper, chopped
- 1 red bell pepper, chopped
- 1 jalapeno, seeded and chopped
- for spice rub—
- 2 tsp chili powder
- 1 tsp cumin
- 1/4 tsp onion powder
- 1/4 tsp garlic powder
- 1/4 tsp cayenne pepper
- 1 tsp salt
- 1/2 tsp black pepper
- for serving—
- corn tortillas
- avocado slices
- cilantro
- your favorite salsa
- limes
Instructions
- Mix together all spices in a small bowl. Rub the spices all over your flank steak—be generous here! Then, place your steak at the bottom of your crock pot.
- Cover the steak with the chopped onions, bell peppers and jalapeno pepper. Turn heat on LOW and cook for 8 hours.
- After 8 hours, remove meat from crock pot and shred with a fork. It should be incredibly easy to shred. You can either stick the shredded meat back in the pot for another hour or serve as is.
- To serve, heat your corn tortillas in a skillet on the stove. Spoon some carnitas on a tortilla then top with salsa, avocado, cilantro and a squeeze of lime.
- Enjoy with a margarita for best result.
Preparation time: 10 minute(s)
total time—8 hours
Number of servings (yield): 8
Recipe adapted from: eatliverun.com
When i stick the steak in the crockpot, would i add water or just like that?
Nope, no need to add water. Just be sure to keep the crockpot on low, and your steak will not dry out.
I made this last night. Can’t wait to eat it today.
[...] Slow Cooker Beef Carne Asada: We have some flank steak in the freezer that this recipe would be perfect for. We love tacos and eat them almost weekly! [...]
i have this at home cooking in the crock, anybody else try this recipe yet?! I would love to know how it turned out, and any tweaks you think? THANKS!
OMG this was amazing! I was a little worried because I never tried any of these seasonings but I will never have tacos with ground beef again lol. Thank you for the recipe!!
Would this work with any other type of meat.
This should work well with a pork shoulder.
This was AMAZING, and SO easy. I highly recomend it. YUM!