Thursday, January 31, 2013

Easiest, fall apart in your mouth, Crock Pot Italian Beef

I'm not going to lie.  This is the best Italian Beef you will have.  It's super easy and it really cheap. 

Ingredients
1 Jar (11 oz) Pepperoncinis
1 Boneless beef chuck roast (3-4 lbs)
1/4 cup water
Italian seasoning mix (I keep this on hand and I make my own) 1 3/4 tsp dried basil, 1 1/2 tsp garlic powder, 1 1/2tsp dried oregano, 1 1/4 tsp salt, 1/4 tsp pepper
if you like onions add one large, sliced and quartered onion
10-12 sub rolls, or preferably hard rolls for dipping in au jus.

Here's the super easy part
Take your chuck roast and cut it in half

Put 1/2 of roast on bottom of crock pot
add your water
sprinkle 1/2 of your Italian seasoning over meat
add other 1/2 of roast on top of last and sprinkle it with remaining seasoning
now if you have the pepperoncinis with stems you can remove stems first or as the Italians say "don't worry about it"
I prefer to buy the sliced pepperoncinis and reserve some for putting on top of sandwich
Just pour your pepperonchini juice with peppers over beef.
Also if you like onions this is where you would top with onion

Cover and cook on low for 8-9 hours.  Take 2 meat forks and shred the roast up.  Chuck is sometimes fatty so I do have to pick out some of the fat.  Use a strainer spoon to serve on rolls.  We like ours with a little mayo on bottom roll and sometimes a little of the juice for dipping.

This one is a little spicier because of peppers and juice but it is so delish!
 
Melts in your mouth!

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