Slow Cooker Barbacoa Beef

Barbacoa Beef is beef the cooked in deliciously flavored chili packed marinate sauce that is cooked over hours until you can pull it apart with two forks. Barbacoa is typically made with beef, lamb or goat seasoned with dry chilies then cooked until tender. The barbacoa beef is great in all sorts of Mexican-style dishes, on salads, sandwiches or even just served over rice or pasta. The preparation is very simple and can be easily done before work or school and you can come to dinner ready and you home smelling absolutely wonderful. Check out the recipe below in post.

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Season beef chunks with salt and pepper on all sides. Heat the oil in a large skillet over medium-high heat. Add beef in batches and cook until all sides are browned, about 1 minute per side.

While beef is cooking, add the garlic, lime juice, apple cider vinegar, chipotle peppers, cumin, chili powder, oregano, salt, and cloves to a food processor or blender and blend until smooth.

Place the chopped onions in the bottom of the slow cooker. Add the beef on top of the onions and add the chili mixture, beef broth and bay leaves over the beef.

Once the beef is fork tender, Remove beef and shred using 2 forks. Return beef to the slow cooker to marinate in the sauce for at least 10 more minutes before serving.

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