Adovada is more commonly made with pork but this version marinates beef cubes overnight and then slow cooks it until tender. Use in tacos, burritos, on nachos, etc.
Method: crock pot
Time: over 5 hours
Crock Pot Beef

All of your favorite beef recipes made easy with the slow cooker. Try some mouthwatering recipes like beef brisket, sirloin tips, or bbq short ribs
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Beef Carne Adovada
Ground Beef Pasta Goulash
This ground beef pasta goulash is a hearty and delicious meal that your whole family will love. This recipe is easy to make and can be made ahead of time, so it's perfect for...
Method: crock pot, stovetop
Time: 1-2 hours
Beef Tips In Mushroom Sauce
Looking for a delicious meal that cooks itself? This beef tips in mushroom sauce offers the ease of slow cooking combined with a tasty blend of savory ingredients.
Method: crock pot
Time: 2-5 hours
Short Rib Tomato Sauce
Meaty short ribs sauteed with garlic and onions, deglazed with red wine, and slow cooked with tomato and basil make a mouthwateringly savory sauce for some very lucky pasta.
Method: crock pot, stovetop
Time: 2-5 hours
Slow Cooked Beef Brisket
Brisket is slow cooked until tender in a bold wine-tomato sauce.
Method: crock pot, stovetop
Time: over 5 hours
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French Pot Roast
Made with water, green pepper, boneless round or chuck roast, flour, oil, condensed onion soup
Method: electric skillet/wok, crock pot
Time: over 5 hours
The Best Beer-Basted Pot Roast
This crock pot beef roast gets both a flavor boost and tenderizer from cooking in the beer and tomato broth.
Method: crock pot, stovetop
Time: 2-5 hours
Italian Dressing Pot Roast
Talk about easy crockpot shortcuts. Thanks to Italian dressing, this pot roast only needs three ingredients to slow cook itself to zesty, meaty perfection.
Method: crock pot
Time: over 5 hours
Home-Style Short Rib Dinner
If short ribs aren't a regular sight on your dinner table, they're about to become one. Cooked with a hearty mixture of carrots on potatoes, these fall-off-the-bone crockpot...
Method: crock pot
Time: over 5 hours
Tender Beef Brisket
This crockpot brisket with a horseradish bite is an excellent choice for a main course when you've got a big dinner coming up.
Method: crock pot, stovetop
Time: over 5 hours
Beef, Bean, And Brown Rice Taco Filling
An all-purpose taco filling made with ground beef, refried beans, brown rice, and salsa. Freezes well.
Method: crock pot, stovetop
Time: 2-5 hours
Rustic Short Ribs With Mustard Sauce
Rich, complex flavors of French cuisine meet the ease of a crockpot in this recipe. Braised short ribs paired with vegetables make up a hearty plate of countryside...
Method: crock pot, oven
Time: 2-5 hours
Jim's Tex-Mex Chili Mac
Ground beef is browned and mixed with onion, tomatoes, chili beans, taco seasoning, and pasta for a Tex-Mex style chili-mac dinner.
Method: crock pot, stovetop
Time: 2-5 hours
Beef Pot Roast and Vegetables
Hearty pot roast is always a good idea, and using a crockpot makes it an even better one. Red wine and rosemary give the beef roast loads of flavor, and the veggies really...
Method: crock pot, stovetop
Time: over 5 hours
Steak Fajitas
Flank steak is the traditional cut of beef used in fajitas. The crock pot helps make it tender with its low and slow cooking.
Method: crock pot
Time: over 5 hours
Mexican Beef Steak
Great flavors come together in this crock pot dinner made with round steak, garlic powder, chili powder, mustard, onion, tomatoes, and kidney beans - all served over rice.
Method: crock pot
Time: over 5 hours
Onion And Wine Braised Brisket
If you think brisket is a work-intensive dinner, then it's time you got the slow-cooker involved. A red wine sauce keeps the brisket moist.
Method: crock pot
Time: over 5 hours
Chipotle Taco Filling
Have Taco Tuesday any day of the week. Taste the love affair between the beef and chipotle peppers in adobo sauce. Doctor with your favorite toppings and chow down.
Method: stovetop, crock pot
Time: 2-5 hours
Beef And Rice Stuffed Bell Peppers With Tomato Sauce
A slow cooker version of stuffed peppers made with green bell peppers, ground beef, rice, onion, carrot, and topped with tomato soup.
Method: crock pot
Time: over 5 hours
Beefy Braised Short Ribs
Making a dish as rich and flavorful as red wine-braised short ribs with just one pot (read: one dish to clean) is a stroke of genius.
Method: stovetop, crock pot
Time: over 5 hours
Beef Stuffed Shells
Let the crockpot work its magic on the cheesy stuffed shells, and you can whip up some some garlic bread and salad right before serving.
Method: stovetop, crock pot
Time: over 5 hours
Cabbage Lasagna
The same delicious flavors as homemade lasagna without the pasta. This lower carb crock pot version uses cabbage in place of lasagna noodles to separate the layers of beefy filling.
Method: stovetop, crock pot
Time: 2-5 hours
Ground Beef Dinner
Made with French-fried onions, celery, onion, soy sauce, water, ground beef, cream of mushroom soup, cream of chicken soup, rice
Method: crock pot, stovetop
Time: 2-5 hours
California Pilaf
Made with rice, ripe olives, black pepper, salt, ground beef, water, tomato sauce, green bell pepper, garlic, onion
Method: stovetop, crock pot
Time: over 5 hours
Ground Beef Rice and Cabbage Hot Pot
Made with dried thyme, ground beef, onion, garlic, chicken broth, ketchup, cabbage, white rice, frozen corn kernels, carrots
Method: stovetop, crock pot
Time: over 5 hours
Beef Brisket With Carrots And Potatoes
Cooking doesn't always need to be a masterclass; sometimes all you need is a trusty brisket. It's one of those effortlessly impressive meals you'll want to share...
Method: crock pot
Time: over 5 hours
Halupkis (Stuffed Cabbage)
Made with vinegar, ketchup, cabbage, ground beef and pork, rice, onion, eggs, black pepper, butter
Method: stovetop, crock pot
Time: over 5 hours
Asian Pot Roast
Think pot roast but with an Asian twist - just beef, onions, broth, and a few key flavors slow-cooked to tender perfection.
Method: crock pot
Time: 2-5 hours
Three-Ingredient Cube Steak Dinner
Made with brown gravy, cube steaks, potatoes
Method: crock pot
Time: over 5 hours
Baked Steak
Made with soy sauce, water, chuck steak, potatoes, cream of mushroom soup
Method: crock pot
Time: 2-5 hours
Cube Steak Stew
Made with salt and pepper, water or broth, mushroom gravy mix, vegetable oil, cube steak, onion, red wine or cider vinegar, potatoes, whole kernel corn
Method: stovetop, crock pot
Time: over 5 hours
Chuck Roast With Leek
Made with dried orange peel, salt, black pepper, ground mace or nutmeg, celery, fresh parsley, fresh cilantro, leek, red wine
Method: stovetop, crock pot
Time: over 5 hours
Chinese Hamburger Casserole
Simple yet delicious, this Asian-inspired hamburger casserole combines ground beef, chicken noodle soup, and well-drained Chinese-style vegetables for an easy crock pot meal...
Method: crock pot, stovetop
Time: 1-2 hours
Stuffed Flank Steak
Made with green onions, dry red wine, brown gravy mix, stuffing, mushrooms, butter or margarine, Parmesan cheese, flank steak, salad oil
Method: crock pot
Time: over 5 hours
Round Steak And Tomato Casserole
Made with diced tomatoes, tomato soup, round steak, salt, black pepper, onion, potatoes, French-style green beans, garlic
Method: crock pot
Time: over 5 hours
Beef Tips and Noodles
Made with egg noodles, water, round steak or venison, flour, oil, salt and pepper, cream of mushroom soup
Method: stovetop, crock pot
Time: over 5 hours
24-Hour Italian Beef
Made with Italian salad dressing mix, beef rump roast, water, au jus gravy mix
Method: crock pot
Time: over 5 hours
Beef Scallopini
Made with oregano, beef stew meat, flour, black pepper, oil, mushrooms, onions, salt, sugar
Method: crock pot
Time: over 5 hours
Cube Steak with Veggies
Made with garlic, onion soup mix, cube steaks, onion, carrots, mushrooms, green bell pepper, cream of mushroom soup
Method: crock pot
Time: over 5 hours
Home-Style Beef Cubes
Made with water, flour, salt, black pepper, London broil, onions, mushrooms, beef broth, Worcestershire sauce, ketchup
Method: crock pot
Time: over 5 hours
Prairie Land Pot Roast
Made with parsley, carrots, boneless beef chuck roast, salt, black pepper, Catalina dressing, onions, potatoes
Method: stovetop, crock pot
Time: 2-5 hours
Beef-Zucchini Casserole
Made with zucchini, ground beef, onion, tomato sauce, dry red wine, oregano, garlic salt, basil, salt, seasoned pepper
Method: oven, stovetop, crock pot
Time: over 5 hours
Pigs Out Of The Blanket
Made with stewed tomatoes, ground eye of round beef, instant long grain white rice, salsa, vegetable juice, coleslaw mix
Method: microwave, crock pot
Time: 2-5 hours
Italian Beef With Peppers
Made with beef broth, beef roast, sirloin tip or rump roast, Italian giardiniera, pepperoncini peppers, Italian salad dressing mix
Method: crock pot
Time: over 5 hours
Mock Lasagna
Made with dried parsley, onion, Italian sausage, ground beef, garlic, Mozzarella cheese, cottage cheese, tomato paste, salt, water
Method: crock pot, stovetop
Time: over 5 hours
Asian Flank Steak
Made with kosher salt and freshly ground pepper, Worcestershire sauce, brown sugar, flank steak, oil, pineapple rings, pineapple juice, soy sauce, ginger, sherry
Method: crock pot
Time: over 5 hours
Short Ribs with Root Vegetables
Made with beef chuck short ribs, olive oil, coarse salt and ground black pepper, parsnips, turnip, carrots, onion, potatoes, garlic, brown sugar
Method: stovetop, crock pot
Time: over 5 hours
Italian Bow Tie Supper
Made with frozen chopped spinach, ground beef, onion, garlic, tomato sauce, diced tomatoes, mushrooms, dried oregano, dried Italian seasoning, bow tie pasta
Method: crock pot, stovetop
Time: 2-5 hours
Beef Tips With Red Wine Gravy
Slow-cook your way to a comforting dish with beef tips in a savory red wine and golden mushroom gravy, served over rice or wide egg noodles for a hearty meal.
Method: crock pot
Time: 2-5 hours
Asparagus Steak Roll Ups
Made with dry Italian salad dressing mix, new potatoes, cube steaks, asparagus spears
Method: crock pot
Time: over 5 hours
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