Slow Cooker Shredded Beef Tacos

This Slow Cooker Shredded Beef Taco recipe is super easy and totally delicious. This recipe uses a flank steak. Flank steak has an amazing beef flavor, and when cooked slowly in the slow cooker for 4 hours, it is fork-tender.

Tips on cooking our slow cooker shredded beef tacos:

• If you can’t find flank steak, you can substitute a strip steak.

• These tacos are delicious wrapped in a corn tortilla or a flour tortilla.

• Our preferred choice of chile powder is Bueno Chile. It is truly the best red chile powder straight from New Mexico.

Dishes that you can pair these tacos with:

• Roasted corn guacamole

• Spanish cauliflower “rice”

• Flour tortillas

Ingredients

• 2 lb. flank steak

• 1 tsp. chile powder

• 1 tsp. garlic powder

• 1 tsp. cumin

• 1 tsp. salt

• 1 tsp. pepper

• 2 tsp. olive oil

• 3 garlic cloves minced

• 1 lime juiced

• 2 tbsp. white wine vinegar

• 1/2 c. beef broth

Instructions

1. In a bowl, whisk together the chile powder, garlic powder, cumin, salt, pepper, olive oil, minced garlic, white wine vinegar, and beef broth.

2. Place the flank steak in the slow cooker and pour the mixture over the top.

3. Cook on high for 4 hours.

4. When ready to eat, shred the meat and serve with tortillas and all the fixings.

Thank you to Arturo and Wrenn Pacheco for sharing your recipe and pictures. Arturo and Wrenn are custom grazers located in the Flint Hills of Kansas. Their grazing operation consists of grazing double stock steers and custom heifer development for their clients. Arturo has his PhD in ruminant nutrition and owns and operates his own nutrition consulting business, Pacheco Cattle Services. Wrenn is a professional photographer and operates Wrenn Bird Photography. Together they have two little cowboys, Leo and Ross. You can find more of their recipes at cookingwiththecowboy.com.

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