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This Mexican Shredded Beef has become one of our favorite Taco Tuesday meals and I’m certain you will love this recipe, too! Crock Pot Mexican Shredded Beef can be used to make tacos, burritos, enchiladas and more.
You are going to love these easy Crock pot Mexican Shredded Beef Tacos. Make sure you try any of our 53 Best Mexican Crock Pot Recipes. The shredded beef cooks with so much flavor in a delicious sauce.
This crock pot recipe is perfect to serve for a weeknight meal or to feed a crowd. If you love this recipe, see 35 Easy Shaved beef recipes for another easy meal. If you love this recipe you may also love Slow Cooker Chipotle Beef Barbacoa.
What's in this post: Mexican Shredded Beef
Why This Recipe Works
- Serve in Many Ways – This shredded beef recipe makes the best Shredded Beef Tacos, Shredded Beef Enchiladas, and Smothered Burritos burritos.
- Simple Ingredients – You will love how easy it is to make with simple spices.
- Leftovers are Great – I love to freeze the leftovers for meal prep
- Beef So Tender – The cooks so tender and shreds so easily.
Ingredients
- Beef Chuck Roast – Cooks to the most tender cut of meat
- Diced Green Chiles – Gives beef so much flavor. I like to add the juices too
- Minced Garlic – Learn How to Mince Garlic Cloves
- Chili Powder – If you are out, see The Best Chili Powder Substitute
- Ground Cumin – See Best Substitute for Cumin
- Lime – Optional but love the addition of the citrus flavor
Scroll to the bottom for the full recipe and ingredients in the recipe card.
How to Make Mexican Shredded Beef in the Crock Pot
Step 1 – Place the roast in the crockpot (I used a 6-quart programmable crockpot). Top the roast with the kosher salt, garlic, chili powder, cumin, salt and pepper.
Step 2 – Layer the green chilis over the roast in the crockpot.
Step 4 – Cover and cook on low for 8 hours or high for 4 hours until the beef shreds easily.
Step 5 – Shred the beef with two forks and stir the shredded beef into the sauce in the crock pot.
- Step 6 – Squeeze on fresh lime juice over the beef and stir to combine with the beef broth.
- Step 7 – Serve on warm tortillas, pile on nachos, or with a side of rice. Enjoy!
Recipe Tips
- Crock Pot Recommendation – We used 6 quart crockpot to make this recipe but you may need a larger size depending on the size of your roast. Check out these Best Slow Cookers of 2024 if you are need a new crockpot.
- Cooking Time – Cooking time will vary but we like cooking the roast on low for best results.
- Shredding Roast – You can easily shred the large chunks of roast with two forks, but following these tips to shred the beef with a mixer.
- Cooking Methods – We love the way the slow cooker cooks the meat with tenderness. But you can also cook it in the pressure cooker or Dutch Oven on the stove-top.
Variations Ideas
- Seasoning – Feel free to make Easy Homemade Taco Seasoning Recipe instead of the seasoning listed in the recipe card. You can easily add in paprika, garlic powder, cilantro, oregano and chopped onions for a delicious variation.
- Tortilla – Serve these beef tacos with flour tortillas or corn tortillas.
- Chipotle Peppers – For even more flavor add in chipotle peppers with adobo sauce.
Serving Suggestions
We love to serve these Mexican shredded beef tacos with homemade instant pot refried beans, Black Beans in the Crockpot, Spanish rice, Mexican Rice and of course Crockpot white cheese dip.
These tacos are even better topped with your favorite taco toppings. These are some of our favorites.
- Diced Tomatoes
- Shredded Lettuce
- Diced Avocado
- Shredded Cheese
- Homemade Salsa Recipe
- Easy Guacamole Recipe with Salsa
- The Best Pico De Gallo Recipe
- Queso Fundido con Chorizo
- Sour Cream
What To Do with Shredded Meat?
There is so much freedom with this Mexican shredded beef tacos crock pot recipe! You don’t actually have to turn these into tacos all of the time. That is the best part!
You can serve this gluten-free slow cooker Mexican shredded beef taco recipe as burritos. Or, you can serve it on Oven Nachos, make slow cooker beef enchiladas, or make quesadillas out of them.
You could even use the shredded beef on top of a plate of salad greens! We have even used the shredded meat to make Burrito Bowls.
In fact, we like to cook this once but double the recipe ingredients. We eat Crock Pot Shredded Beef Tacos for dinner that night and then we save the leftovers and use them for quesadillas or enchiladas for an easy dinner later on in the week.
I love it when I can cook once but eat twice!
Frequently Asked Questions
If you want to sear your roast, you can do that first by place the roast in skillet over medium-high heat. Turn the roast to sear each side. This won’t affect the cooking time, it just adds some additional flavor.
Store the leftover shredded beef in an airtight container in the refrigerator. We like to make sure to place the beef with the liquid to keep the meat from drying out.
We recommend reheating the meat in the microwave or on the stovetop. You can even heat in the oven depending on how much you have left.
This shredded beef freezes great once the beef is cooled. Place in freezer safe containers or freeze ziplock bag for up to 2 months. Thaw in the fridge overnight when ready to servce.
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Mexican Shredded Beef
Ingredients
- 3 lb boneless beef chuck roast
- 1 can Diced green chiles (7 oz.)
- 1 tsp minced garlic
- 2 Tbsp chili powder
- 1 tsp ground cumin
- ½ tsp salt
- ½ tsp black pepper
- 1 lime (juiced)
Instructions
- Place the roast in a 6 quart crock pot.
- Top the road with the garlic, chili powder, cumin, salt and pepper.
- Spread the green chilis over the roast in the crock pot.
- Place the lid on top and cook on low for 8-10 hours or high for 4-5 hours until the beef is easily shreddable.
- Shred the beef with 2 forks. Squeeze the fresh lime over the beef and stir to combine.
- Serve on tortillas, on nachos, or over rice. Enjoy!
This recipe is so good! Definitely a dish worth repeating.
Kai – You made our day. Thanks for the feedback!
This shredded beef is amazing! Simple, ingredients i have on hand, and tastes great! I’ll be making this on a regular basis
Woohoo! I’m so glad you enjoyed it. It’s one of my family’s favorite recipes too!
I don’t like green chili’s, so should I add some kind of liquid to the crockpot to make up for the juice it won’t get from them? I don’t want it to be all dried out.
Looks perfect.
So much flavor and so easy! Definitely adding it to our rotation.
Absolutely wonderful ! Used a 4 lb chuck roast. Plenty for quesadillas, nachos and tacos. Rest frozen for late night nachos ca
Can i use Angus beef round bottom roast for this recipie?
Yes you can.
Absolutely love this recipe! Simple and easy but has great flavour, we will definitely be adding this to our favourites collection.
Family loved this. Will definitely be making this again !
Easy and delicious! I love how versatile this recipe is, too! You can use the meat for tacos, nachos, burritos, a salad….YUM!
We made these. They were really good.
I’m so glad!