Slow Cooker Carne Asada
- Prep Time: 10 minutes
- Cook Time: 8 hours
- Total Time: 8 hours and 10 minutes
- Yield: 4 1x
Ingredients
Scale
- 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
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