I’m always looking for easy and delicious slow cooker recipes. Often, easy recipes rely on heavy sauces for flavor, or come out dry and tasteless. But this recipe for slow cooker Italian beef uses spices and the crock pot slow cooking process to let the flavors of the beef really stand out.
You can use this recipe in a variety of ways.
- Cut the roast diagonally across the grain, you’ll create slices of beef.
- Pull the beef apart while still warm, you’ll have shredded beef.
- It can be used for French Dip with a bowl of Au Jus on the side for dipping
- Shredded beef over rice or potatoes
- As the foundation of beef stroganoff.
- In taco soft or hard shells with salsa, guac, sour cream and cheese
- In sliders with a bit of cheese on top
- Beef and vegetable soup
Perfect as a Freezer Meal
What’s a freezer meal? Maybe you’ve heard the term but aren’t sure of the process. Freezer meals is the term used when talking about making meals ahead of time – or at least assembling them so they are easily prepared on the day you want them. This recipe is perfect for the freezer meal process. (More about Freezer Meals HERE).
Shredded or Sliced?
Depending on how you slice the beef, you can either pull with a fork – going with the grain of the beef, or go diagonally against the grain and you can slice the beef. After slicing or shredding, put the beef back into the delicious broth/au jus to let the beef soak up all that yumminess!
Buy Roasts On Sale!
Make sure to watch for sales on bottom round or rump roasts and purchase them when they go on sale. You can usually save up to $2 per pound! Freeze them individually until you know how you want to use them. This is such a versatile recipe – your family will love this beef anyway you serve it!
Have a great week!
Janet
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Easy Slow Cooker Italian Beef
Equipment
- Crock Pot
Ingredients
- 1 large Onion, quartered
- 1 10.5 oz Can Beef Broth
- 1 pkg Dry Italian seasoning mix In the salad dressing aisle.
- 1 pkg French onion soup mix
- 1 2-3 lb Rump roast, chuck roast, bottom roast
- 1 C Water
Instructions
To Make a Freezer Meal
- Place beef roast in freezer ziplock bag. Place the rest of the ingredients in the bag. Close securely. Freeze up to 3 months.
- When ready to use, thaw overnight in the refrigerator or put sealed bag with contents in a bowl or sink of warm water for 20-30 min.
To Cook
- **Optional – place slow cooker liner in crock pot to eliminate extensive clean up
- Place contents in the slow cooker, cover, and cook on low 8-10 hours or high 4-5 hours.
- While still warm, remove roast from slow cooker, and shred with forks. Return meat to slow cooker and immerse in the broth/spices liquid. Or slice against the grain for sliced beef.
- Serve warm on buns with the aujus dipping sauce, or serve in tacos, vegetable soup, stroganoff etc…
- When saving leftovers, put the beef and enough liquid to cover in a container to refrigerate.
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