Slow cooker chipotle barbacoa recipe
This amazing barbacoa recipe is so tender that it falls apart with a fork. The flavor is amazing from being slow cooked and your house will smell amazing.
The lime and adobo sauce with beef broth and other tasty ingredients give this recipe so many layers of flavor. It is simple delicious.
Put your crock pot to work and come home to a great dinner. This is amazing with rice and then enjoy later in the week in tortillas. I love to cook once and eat twice. 🙂
If you loved our Crock Pot Chipotle BBQ Beef Sandwich, you will love this recipe.
The chipotle flavor is so tasty and we can’t get enough. We have made Crock Pot Chipotle Chicken Bowl Recipe and Crock Pot Chipotle Chicken Tacos, and they were all a huge hit with everyone.
Ingredients for copycat chipotle barbacoa:
- 3 lbs Boneless beef chuck roast
- 2 Chipotle Peppers, diced
- 1 Tablespoon Adobo Sauce (sauce from the chipotle pepper can)
- 1/2 cup Apple Cider Vinegar
- 2 Bay Leaves
- 2 tsp Cumin
- 1/2 Onion Diced
- 2 tsp Oregano
- 1 tsp salt
- 1 tsp pepper
- 2 limes, juiced
- 1/2 cup Beef Broth
How to make slow cooker chipotle barbacoa recipe:
Add all the ingredients to the crock pot. It is that simple!
Cover crock pot with lid, and cook on low for 10 hours.
30 minutes before serving, shred the meat and stir back into the sauce in crock pot. Remove the bay leaves.
Enjoy!
What to serve with chipotle barbacoa?
We love the beef over rice. It is easy and delicious. Plus, the sauce tastes amazing on rice.
You can save even more time and learn how to freeze rice and you can make this meal even easier. I love to grab the rice from the freezer in the morning and when we come home it is all ready to enjoy.
We do this for lots of meals and it helps put together a quick meal. Give it a try!
It is so easy and helpful for busy weeknights. You can also use brown rice. Learn how to cook brown rice in the microwave for a quick side.
Other delicious side ideas include salad, Roasted Green Beans or learn how to steam broccoli in the microwave for a super easy veggie side dish.
Leftovers make great tacos!
Use the leftover beef to make tacos or taco salads. Yum!
Serve on your favorite tortillas for an amazing meal. You can try the Best Flour Tortilla Recipe if you have a few extra minutes to make your own.
This meat is also delicious on corn tortillas. Just use what you prefer.
If you love tacos, try making Homemade Taco Shells. They are so simple to make and these homemade taco bowls taste great and are budget friendly.
Make sure you have a good crock pot to make chipotle barbacoa meat.
If you are in the market for something new, I really love my Ninja cooker. The nice thing about this is you can brown the meat in the same slow cooker for recipes that call for that.
It is so handy to just have the one pan to clean. It has become of my favorite kitchen appliances.
I also really like this crockpot as well. I use this all the time and it’s great.
My favorite feature is that you can lock the lid down. This is awesome for when you need to take the crockpot somewhere.
I often use the slow cooker to take dishes to potluck events and this feature is amazing! There are several others on sale here.
Another favorite is this programmable crock pot for when I am am not at home all day. I love coming home to a nice meal ready and waiting!
I also like to use crock pot liners to make clean up a breeze. These plastic bags are worth every penny and save a ton of time.
Try Copycat chipotle barbacoa for a budget friendly and amazing meal idea.
Everyone will love eating at home when you make delicious meals like this. You can enjoy this one night over rice and later in the week as tacos.
No more being tempted to eat out! You will see just how easy it is and the savings will add up.
You can try other cuts of beef. I often just use what I have in the freeze or what is on sale. You can truly make this recipe your own and customize it for your family.
This is how I keep our grocery budget reasonable. By shopping when things are on sale I save money on groceries and it really helps our budget.
I keep recipes like this on the regular menu plan rotation because I know the entire family will enjoy and it is easy to use what I have.
In fact, I cut our grocery bill by 50% off by following these 8 Tips for for Saving Money on Groceries by Menu Planning! Save that money for a family vacation or maybe just some wiggle room in the budget.
Everyone will be well fed and your budget will be better as well. Give some of these tips a try!
If you love chipotle, try this easy beef barbacoa recipe. It is slow cooked to perfection and one of our favorite spicy foods.
Copycat recipes are easy and save a ton of money! It is really a great recipe.
Print this crock pot chipotle barbacoa recipe below:
- 3 lbs Boneless beef chuck roast
- 2 Chipotle Peppers diced
- 1 Tablespoon Adobo Sauce sauce from the chipotle pepper can
- 1/2 cup Apple Cider Vinegar
- 1/2 Onion Diced
- 2 Bay Leaves
- 2 tsp Cumin
- 2 tsp Oregano
- 1 tsp salt
- 1 tsp pepper
- 2 limes juiced
- 1/2 cup Beef Broth
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Add all the ingredients to the crock pot.
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Cover crock pot with lid, and cook on low for 10 hours.
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30 minutes before serving, shred the meat and stir back into the sauce in crock pot. Remove the bay leaves.
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Enjoy!
Try these other beef slow cooker recipes:
- Easy Crock Pot Beef Tips Recipe
- Slow Cooker Mongolian Beef
- Crock pot Cheeseburger Soup Recipe
- Crock Pot Beef Teriyaki Recipe
- Easy Crock Pot Beef Burgundy Recipe
- Easy Crock Pot Beef Stroganoff Recipe
- Crock Pot Shredded Beef
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- Crockpot Chicken and Stuffing Recipe
- Crockpot Hamburger Helper Recipe
- Sweet Glazed Carrots – Kid Friendly Crock pot Carrots recipe!
- Crock pot Ranch Pork Chops
- Mississippi Pot Roast
- Crock Pot Street Tacos
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- The Best Crock Pot Roast Recipe
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- Slow Cooker Cashew Chicken Recipe
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