Weight Watchers Slow Cooker Chipotle’s Barbacoa Beef Recipe
This beef is slow cooked until tender in a perfect blend of spices. It's great for filling tacos, burritos, salads, or just served over rice.
Prep Time20 minutes mins
Cook Time4 hours hrs
Total Time4 hours hrs 20 minutes mins
Course: Main Course
Cuisine: American
Keyword: barbacoa beef, chipotle's copycat recipe, slow cooker beef, slow cooker chipotle's barbacoa beef
Servings: 8
Calories: 358kcal
- 5 teaspoons minced garlic
- ½ medium yellow onion
- ½ lime juiced
- 2-3 chipotles in adobo sauce
- 1 Tablespoon ground cumin
- 1 Tablespoon ground oregano
- ½ teaspoon ground cloves
- 3 pounds bottom round roast (or beef eye of round, all fat trimmed)
- salt and pepper to taste
- 1 teaspoon olive oil
- 1 cup water
- 3 bay leaves
- 4 cups cooked rice
Place garlic, onion, lime juice, chipotles, cumin, oregano and cloves in a blender until smooth; set aside.
Trim all fat off meat, and cut into 4 pieces. Season all sides with salt and pepper and brown in a skillet over high heat in 1 teaspoon olive oil just until the outside is brown and seared to seal in the juices.
Remove meat from skillet and place in the bottom of a slow cooker sprayed with nonstick cooking spray.
Pour liquefied spices, water and bay leaves on top and cover and cook on high for 4 hours, or low for 6-8 hours.
Once cooked and the meat is tender, remove the meat and place in a dish. Shred it with two forks, and reserve the liquid for later (discard the bay leaf).
Return the shredded meat to the pot and mix together with juices in the slow cooker. Let cook on warm for 10 minutes.
Serve over cooked rice.
- My kids don’t like spicy food, so I can usually only get away with one chipotle pepper and a little bit of adobo sauce.
Calories: 358kcal | Carbohydrates: 25g | Protein: 40g | Fat: 9g | Saturated Fat: 3g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 1g | Monounsaturated Fat: 4g | Cholesterol: 105mg | Sodium: 147mg | Potassium: 644mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 1g | Vitamin A: 202IU | Vitamin C: 2mg | Calcium: 56mg | Iron: 4mg