Abuela’s Slow Cooker Ropa Vieja – Cooked by Julie

This sluggish cooker ropa vieja is tender, juicy, and filled with taste. it’s made with flank steak, tomato sauce, onions, peppers, and spices. Ropa Vieja is the nationwide dish of Cuba and could be very well-liked all through the Caribbean.

Different Cuban recipes that I like are congrí, fried cow, and Cuban black beans.

why you may love this recipe

• It’s my Cuban grandmother’s recipe and has been within the household for over 30 years. it’s fail-protected. Though historically made in a stress cooker, this sluggish cooker model is far simpler.
• Ropa vieja is normally served with fluffy white rice, however you possibly can get pleasure from it with heat tortillas and make tacos, salads, or empanadas as an alternative.
• You possibly can prepare dinner it lengthy and sluggish for 9 hours in a single day or 5 hours on excessive.
• Tastes even higher the following day!
• it is shredded beef cooked in a flavorful spiced tomato sauce, what’s to not love?

ingredient notes

• Flank Steak: If you cannot discover flank steak at your native grocery retailer, be happy to make use of roast beef or brisket.
• Tomato Sauce: I like a really gentle sauce, however if you would like it chunky, add diced contemporary or canned tomatoes.
• Peppers: I used a mix of pink and inexperienced peppers.
• Garlic: Use contemporary for finest outcomes.
• Spices: I used sazon, cumin, and oregano, however be happy so as to add your favourite spices.
• dry white wine – when you do not devour alcohol, add a splash of vinegar.
• olives: non-compulsory however provides nice taste.
• Sugar: Helps steadiness the acidity of the tomato sauce.

step by step directions

1. Add the tomato sauce, tomato paste, water, dry white wine, spices, bay leaves, sugar, and garlic to the sluggish cooker and blend nicely. Spice with salt and pepper.
2. Add flank steak to sluggish cooker and coat on either side with tomato sauce combination.
3. high with the onions and bell peppers, cowl, and prepare dinner on excessive 4 1/2 hours or on low 9 hours.
4. as soon as the meat is totally tender, take away it from the sluggish cooker and flake it with 2 forks.
5. Return shredded meat to sluggish cooker and blend nicely. season with salt and pepper if essential. cowl and prepare dinner on excessive for 20 extra minutes.
6. serve sizzling and luxuriate in.

finest ideas

• activate the nice and cozy perform in your sluggish cooker and it’ll hold previous garments good and heat for hours.
• wish to make it spicy? add some crushed pink pepper flakes or a beneficiant quantity of cayenne pepper.
• Received any leftovers? permit the previous garments to chill utterly, then switch to an hermetic container and refrigerate for as much as 3 days. to reheat, place in skillet and warmth on stovetop till heat.

serving concepts

serve this with candy plantains and fluffy white rice for a scrumptious genuine Cuban meal.

extra sluggish cooker recipes

• Slow Cooker Orange Hen
• Slow Cooker Creamed Corn
• crockpot lasagna
• Slow Cooker Candied Yams

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