Easy Slow Cooker Chili Lime Mexican Shredded Beef takes mere minutes to prepare before letting the slow cooker do all of the work! This super simple meal is ridiculously tasty and so versatile. Serve it up plain, or enjoy it in tacos, burritos, enchiladas, quesadillas, and more!
Easy slow cooker recipes are always a favorite. You can throw it in the crockpot in the morning and then spend the next 8 hours deciding what you’ll have with it for dinner. Leftovers? Guess you’re already set for a completely different dinner tomorrow night. This shredded beef is great plain, on tacos, burritos, quesadillas, enchiladas…well, you get the point. It’s great on absolutely everything. We love how this recipe uses whole, real ingredients. Well, calling soda a whole, real ingredient is walking a thin line. However, we love the way soda flavors and tenderizes beef. It’s really amazing what it can do. The sugar and carbonation break down that tough roast and produce a tender, moist, and tasty shredded beef. It’s easy, and totally delicious.
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Lime Juice:
We alway say that fresh is best, and we stand by that. However, in a recipe like this you could get away with bottled lime juice.
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Garlic Options:
You can use either minced garlic, garlic granules or garlic powder. Sticking to garlic granules or garlic powder keeps the prep time super quick and easy. If you choose to use either granules or powder, you’ll need 1/2 teaspoon.
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Searing Your Roast:
Searing your roast on the stovetop is completely optional, however we find that it gives it the shredded beef a bit more flavor. If you have the time to sear, we highly recommend it!
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Why is there soda in Easy Slow Cooker Chili Lime Mexican Shredded Beef?
The sugar and carbonation in the soda break down the meat to produce the most tender, moist, and tasty shredded beef. It is absolutely needed in this recipe. However, you can feel free to use whichever lemon-lime soda you prefer: Sprite, 7-Up, generic brand, Sierra Mist, anything! We highly recommend you use a soda with regular sugar in it rather than diet. However, you could use diet soda in a pinch.
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Storage and Reheating Instructions:
Store any leftovers in an airtight container in the fridge for up to 5 days. Reheat in a skillet over medium-low heat until warmed through, or in a microwave in 30 second increments for a total of approximately 90 seconds.
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I am going to make this tomorrow but I was curious if anyone served overtop of anything, such as rice?
My question is, do you brown the beef on the stove top first or just put it straight into the crock pot?
You can brown the beef on the stove top, but there is really no need to sear a roast like that. Just pop it in easy peasy!
Thanks!
Hi,
I am new to your "wonderful" website…can't seem to locate the "print" icon for you recipes?!?!
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Yeah, desktop use … not so good. Ideally: 1 nice image, recipe all fits on no more than one page. Resizable images would be nice … these took up so much space. I could click & remove them … but still a 2 pager with a huge image. 🙁
Copy and paste works pretty fantastic. No image to print. Just a suggestion. This is a free website and I honestly just don't have the resources to provide a print button everyone will be happy with. Copy and paste the text you want to print into a word document. Works for every single website and you'll only print exactly what you want. Most people nowadays don't print recipes but rather pin them and come back. I've been looking into better print options for the few that do choose to print, however, it requires more programming than you might think and I'm just not a programmer.
Copy and paste works pretty fantastic. No image to print. Just a suggestion. This is a free website and I honestly just don't have the resources to provide a print button everyone will be happy with. Copy and paste the text you want to print into a word document. Works for every single website and you'll only print exactly what you want. Most people nowadays don't print recipes but rather pin them and come back. I've been looking into better print options for the few that do choose to print, however, it requires more programming than you might think and I'm just not a programmer.
We made this with a couple of modifications to suit our low sodium diet. We make our own chili powder using several different chilies and other no sodium spices usually found in commercial chili powder. So far no one has complained that the resulting dish is not salty enough. We also use a lower sodium kosher salt made by Diamond. We thought the long strands of the shredded beef were a little dry and stringy so we chopped the meat. We used it on buns and it was delicious. It's on our permanent recipe list now.
is this a sweet tasteing meat
Do you think I oould use diet soda?
You COULD, but with this recipe the sugar in the soda does add a lot.
The flavor of the artificial sweeteners in a diet soda more than likely will not hold up to the heat. The chemicals used in diet sodas may result in a very nasty tasting meal.
30 nurses every shift. We work 6:30 pm to 7am, plus driving and parking time. It leaves us with about 9 hours to sleep, eat, shower and repeat. Always looking for recipes that will cook while we sleep; tried this one this week and I thought the break room was going to explode from all the other nurses begging to let me try "whatever smells so delicious." It tastes great–not like a crockpot meal but like something I slaved over. And yeah, I used the 7up because why not? Tons of liquid was in the crockpot when I took it out; I really don't think it absorbed much more than some of the acidity and the sugar. Anyway, this recipe is the bomb and is definitely going into the rotation. You can use the meat for tacos (what I did), or for nachos or burritos or on a salad (what I did on night number two, while trying to fend off a bunch of vulture nurses who wanted to eat more of what I let them try the night before). Try it. It's delicious.
This looks absolutely delicious! I can't wait to try it. We have Taco Tuesday weekly. My family will love this. 🙂 Thank you so much for posting!
i rather use soda water with natural lemon and a bit of honey or silan … it will be much healthier that way 😉 and if needed some sweetness, then
Thanks for posting your substitution as consuming soda with HFCS totally cripples me (arthritis) for several days!
this is not printer friendly why do I need all the reviews I wasted 7 sheets of paper.
Did you use the green "print friendly" button below the recipe? It won't print the pictures or the comments and should fit easily on one page.
Your "print friendly button is not below the recipe. It's buried in the More Options menu. That's three additional clicks, just to print. That's not very friendly, now, is it?
There is literally a button underneath the post that says print friendly that requires one click. The more options button is a much more difficult way to access another option to print. The button even has a picture of a printer on it.
I know this is two years old, but wow, I am so sorry you have to deal with such snarky, snippy comments. ? Thank you for staying gracious in return. It surely can be hard; I just wanted to show appreciation for your patient kindness to a demanding, unkind public. ❤️
While I was scrolling down for comments and suggestions I saw Snarky clair.
Seriously maybe you should reimburse Clair her paper. Some people I tell ya.
thanks for the recipe.
It is a very nice recipe – so simple – why do you want to print it? Forgot who to write? Love you recipe!!
For some reason the green "print friendly" button does print the entire page. However just select single page and print page 3 to get he recipe only.
When you print it throws up a window where you can choose what pages and how many etc.
It works well in mobile, but I'm working on aa more desktop friendly option. The majority of my readers are reading from mobile options, but I'd still like to have something that works a little better for desktops and laptops.
On most machines you can control which pages to print. I only print directions and not comments. When you select the printer to print, it usually comes up on your computer screen allowing you to choose which pages to print, how many copies, etc. I only choose to print the directions, not the comments.
I always copy and paste the recipe I want to my WordPad document, then print from there.
Do a Print Preview before you print and then tell your printer what pages you want to print (not a print all pages).