5 Healthy Dinners In 30 Min! Wholesome Yum is a homemade chipotle bowl blog for healthy recipes and keto recipes. Here you will find simple, healthy dishes made with whole food ingredients, as well as gluten-free, low carb meals — all with 10 ingredients or less.
If you love barbacoa beef, you have to try this copycat Chipotle barbacoa recipe in a slow cooker. The best Crock Pot barbacoa ever! This post may contain affiliate links, which help keep this content free. What Kind Of Meat Is Used For Barbacoa? What Seasonings Are Used For Barbacoa Beef?
What’s The Secret To Cooking Barbacoa Beef? Have you ever had the barbacoa beef at Chipotle? The fajita veggies they serve are mouth-watering. Especially when you add some Chipotle guacamole. If you’ve ever had it, you know.
I bet you’ve wondered if it’s possible to cook Crock Pot barbacoa at home, too. If you didn’t adore your Crock Pot before, you will once you make this slow cooker barbacoa beef in it! It’s one of my favorite Chipotle copycat recipes. Simply puree most of the ingredients in your blender, pour the mixture over beef chunks in your slow cooker, place the bay leaf inside, and you’ll be enjoying Crock Pot barbacoa for dinner! This barbacoa recipe was originally published on December 7, 2016, and was republished in February 2020 to add better tips.
Barbacoa, simply, is a traditional Mexican cooked meat with spices that is tender, flavorful, and usually served shredded as a filling or topping. Making authentic barbacoa beef requires three things: the right meat, the proper spices, and time to cook it so that the flavors come together. Barbacoa beef tastes like tender, slow cooked shredded beef cooked in an adobo sauce with loads of flavorful Mexican spices. In other words, it tastes delicious. Traditionally a variety of meats can be used to make Mexican barbacoa, but this Chipotle beef copycat calls for brisket or chuck roast.
I get my beef for barbacoa HERE. You’ll just cut it into chunks and season it. Traditional Mexican spices are combined to make a marinade that slow cooks with the meat. This barbacoa seasoning combines spices, peppers in adobo, lime, and broth for its rich flavor. The secret is that this is slow cooker barbacoa beef. The long cooking time is what allows the flavors to meld together in a truly mouth-watering, authentic combination that makes this the best beef barbacoa recipe you’ll ever try. The simplicity of this barbacoa recipe is just another reason to love it.
This easy beef barbacoa recipe is just another reason to love Chipotle! Did you know that Chipotle publicly posts the ingredients list for every item on their menu? To make a copycat Chipotle barbacoa recipe at home, I started with a peek at what they include when they cook up their delicious barbacoa beef. It turns out that theirs only has eleven ingredients, plus water. Use beef brisket or chuck roast. These add the classic heat and flavor!
My version is a bit spicier than Chipotle’s original, so if you don’t like a lot of heat, you may want to reduce the amount of chile peppers in adobo sauce. Instead of water, use beef broth as you make your slow cooker barbacoa beef, for an even richer taste. The vinegar adds a nice hit of acid to complement the rich beef. To enhance the flavors of the spices used in this Chipotle Whole30 recipe, you’ll use lime juice to flavor this low carb Chipotle dinner. It’s a subtle, but oh-so-delicious addition.
Dried oregano, cumin, salt pepper, ground cloves, and a bay leaf. You have your ingredients, time to make homemade barbacoa beef with them! You’re making this particular Crock Pot barbacoa from either beef brisket or a chuck roast, so just grab your beef and chop it into chunks. Put it in the bottom of your slow cooker. Then, put it back into the juices and stir it up. Go ahead and make your salads or prep your wraps, and by then it will have absorbed even more flavor. Serve it with a slotted spoon and enjoy!