Slow Cooker Chile Colorado Beef Burritos

Easy Slow Cooker Chile Colorado is a wonderful Mexican dish made of chunks of beef that have simmered in a delectable red chile sauce until fall-apart tender.  You can use the flavorful meat in tacos, burritos, or any of your favorite Mexican foods!

I started eating Chile Colorado as a kid in San Diego at my favorite Mexican restaurant.  The meat was so tender, you could poke it with your fork and it would fall apart!  Take some of that meat and the savory red chile sauce that the meat had been stewing in for hours and put it in a tortilla with some chopped cilantro, sliced onions, maybe a little rice and beans, and I'm sure you can imagine how tasty this meal was.  I'm salivating just thinking about it.

It's not always easy to find Chile Colorado in restaurants, so to get my fix, I usually have to make it myself.  I make Chile Colorado two different ways depending on how much time I have.  There's method #1, the authentic way, which is re-hydrating dried chile peppers in water, putting them in a blender, then smashing the "pulp" through a mesh strainer to remove all the seeds and chunky pieces.  You then create the Chile Colorado sauce that the meat will stew in on the stove.

Then there's method #2.  It uses a shortcut ingredient to create an almost equally delicious meal.  Just add beef, onions, garlic, and seasonings in a slow cooker with a large can of red enchilada sauce.  Method #2 requires no hydrating, blending, smashing, and straining of chile peppers, which saves a TON of time.  You also don't have to stir or babysit anything on the stove.  Who doesn't love hands-off cooking?

I always buy chuck roast when making Easy Slow Cooker Chile Colorado; it's a tough, inexpensive cut of meat that transforms into tender, super flavorful meat that we'll either shred or separate into chunks and add back to the slow cooker with the scrumptious sauce.  From there you can either make tacos, burritos, quesadillas, put it in a taco salad, on nachos, serve it saucy with tortillas on the side….the possibilities are deliciously endless.

The burrito pictured here has refried beans, shredded cheese, chile colorado meat, salsa, and sour cream. Delish!

Looking for more Mexican recipes to complete your meal?

• The Best Mexican Rice
• Pickled Mexican Hot Carrots
• Roasted Tomatillo & Avocado Salsa
• Smoky Slow Cooker Mexican Black Beans
• The Best Carne Asada

I will eventually post my recipe for traditional Chile Colorado, but in the meantime, I think you will love Easy Slow Cooker Chile Colorado.  You'll get the same super flavorful, tender meat in a wonderful red chile sauce, but without all the effort.

NOTES:

• If you can't get a chuck roast, you could use beef stew meat instead.
• To make your Chile Colorado spicy, feel free to add some cayenne to the seasonings or add a chipotle pepper from a can of chipotles in adobo.

Easy Slow Cooker Chile Colorado

Prep Time 5 mins

Cook Time 8 hrs

Total Time 8 hrs 5 mins

Course Main Course

Cuisine Mexican

• 3 lb. chuck roast
• 1 yellow onion sliced
• 2 garlic cloves minced
• 1 bay leaf
• 2 tsp. cumin
• 1 tsp. oregano
• 1/2 tsp. salt
• black pepper
• 28 oz. can red enchilada sauce

• Season meat with cumin, oregano, salt, and pepper on both sides and place in slow cooker. Add onion, garlic, and bay leaf to the slow cooker, then pour the whole can of enchilada sauce over everything.

• Cook on low for 8 hours or until the meat is tender and falling apart. From there you can either shred it or chop it and use it in all your favorite Mexican foods.

Keyword Beef, Slow Cooker, Tacos

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