Slow Cooker Carne Asada
This Slow Cooker Carne Asada is the perfect set it and forget it meal. On top of a salad, nachos, in lettuce cups for healthier tacos — the options are endless!
A new series is HERE: Slow Cooker Sunday!! All Fall, I’ll be sharing a slow cooker recipe each Sunday for you to pop in your slow cooker and head out for the day, and then come home ready to eat and/or use for your weekly meal prep!
First of all, happy start of FOOTBALL! If you’ve read my blog for some time, you’ll know I love entertaining and creating spreads for Football Sunday– more than I love watching the games!
Another thing you’ll know if you’ve read my blog for a while is that the slow cooker is one of my all-time favorite kitchen tools for that reason. I love a no-fuss meal, and love not having to slave over the stove to make it!
Slow Cooker Carne Asada
- Prep Time: 10 minutes
- Cook Time: 8 hours
- Total Time: 8 hours and 10 minutes
- Yield: 4 1x
Ingredients
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- 1 tablespoon extra-virgin olive oil
- 2 chipotle peppers in adobo sauce (see note)
- 2 oranges, juiced, about 1/2 cup
- 1 lime, juiced
- 1 teaspoon fish sauce
- 4 garlic cloves
- 1/4 cup chopped fresh cilantro
- 1/2 teaspoon ground cumin
- 1/2 teaspoon paprika
- 1/2 teaspoon fine sea salt
- 2 pounds flank steak or steak/beef of choice
Instructions
- Place all ingredients aside from the steak into your blender and blend until smooth.
- In a skillet over medium heat, sear the meat on both sides then place into the insert of your slow cooker.
- Pour the blended sauce mixture over the meat and set on low for 8 hours.
- Shred with two forks and serve over a salad, on top of nachos, or in lettuce leaf tacos.
Notes
If you don’t like heat, make sure you scrape out the seeds.
For Whole30, don’t serve over tortilla chips!
Nutrition
- Serving Size: As served
- Calories: 529
- Sugar: 9.9g
- Sodium: 480mg
- Fat: 22.7g
- Saturated Fat: 8.4g
- Carbohydrates: 14.3g
- Fiber: 2.8g
- Protein: 64.8g
- Cholesterol: 125mg
Are you as excited for this series as I am? I have so many awesome slow cooker recipes coming, and I’d love to hear if there are any you are hoping to see! Feel free to comment below or email me!
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Hey Lexi! Looking to make this for super bowl Sunday and would like to use my instapot. Can you suggest cooking time etc? Thank you and LOVE your recipes!!
I’m doubling the recipe – do I still cook for 8 hours?
That should work that way, but double check at the end it’s tender enough!
Absolutely delicious! Was late on starting, so used Instant pot instead: cut up the meat in chunks, sautéed in pot for a couple minutes, added mixture on top and put on high pressure for 12 min + natural release. The meat melted in my mouth… so much flavor. Definitely a keeper!
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We’re about to launch our redesign which will be great! Thanks for being here Jean!
I have made this and love it. Was wondering if anyone has made it with chicken?
I followed the recipe exactly, but my market only had thin sliced flank steak for Carne Asada. I got that and heated two cast iron skillets on high heat and quickly seared one side of the slices before putting them in the crockpot. I cooked them on low for 4 hours and they were done. The meat was delicious. It was very tender and smelled amazing while it was cooking. My family loved it I also put all of the ingredients in the cup for my hand immersion blender, and felt like that worked very wellf and was easy clean up for me. Thank you for the great recipe!
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