Slow Cooker Cuban Pork Slow Cooker Beef Stew

• May 19, 2021

Dull Cooker Ropa Vieja (Cuban Shredded Beef Stew)

This slow cooker ropa vieja captures all the flavor of this traditional Cuban dish, and makes it weeknight friendly! Instant Pot instructions included likewise!

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Cuban Ropa Vieja is tender beef that's slow cooked in a savory broth with vino, tomato sauce and Latin spices, and so shredded to look like rags, hence the name. This recipe can exist made in a slow cooker or instant pot (instructions below)!

I'm a HUGE deadening cooking fan, and this recipe for Cuban Ropa Vieja was one of the starting time recipes I made when I got my first slow cooker. Cuban food is one of my favorite types of cuisine. It'south similar in many ways to Puerto Rican food, simply there is also a uniqueness that I but dear. Ropa vieja also happens to be on my husband's favorite recipes, so I set my sights on making this a weeknight friendly dish. Since this dish has to summertime for hours to become tender, I knew I wanted to utilise a ho-hum cooker to make the process as easy every bit possible.

What Is Ropa Vieja?

Ropa vieja is Spanish for "erstwhile dress".  The name for this dish comes from the shredded beef, which looks like colorful strands of tattered vesture.  This archetype Cuban dish is traditionally braised for hours on the stove top, until the meat is tender enough to shred. Ropa vieja is 1 of Cuba'southward nigh popular and beloved dishes.  It'due south so popular in fact that it's one of the country's designated national dishes. This dish cooks for several hours. That makes it the kind of dish that needs a bit of planning if you're making it on a whim.

What Is The Best Cutting of Meat To Utilize For Ropa Vieja

Traditionally Ropa Vieja is made with flank steak. I also have made it with skirt steak, and chuck roast, and both cuts work well, but they are higher in fatty, so you may have to skim some fat off the peak of the recipe one time information technology's cooked. Believe it or not, you can also make a version of ropa vieja with chicken!

How To Brand Ropa Vieja In The Slow Cooker

My slow cooker Cuban ropa vieja captures all the deliciousness of this traditional dish, and makes information technology weeknight friendly!  You lot demand about ten-15 minutes to prep the tedious cooker, and so you just prepare it and go near your mean solar day. To kickoff, season and brown the beef on all sides, then add the rest of the ingredients (recipe below) into the ho-hum cooker. You can even do all this prep the night before and simply pop the ceramic insert into the fridge (covered).  In the morning time, pop the insert into the deadening cooker, turn information technology on, and y'all're done! Come home to a fully cooked roast that's ready for shredding and serving in 15 minutes or less.

How To Brand Ropa Vieja In An Instant Pot

You absolutely tin make this recipe in an instant pot. I like using the saute function get-go, to get the sofrito going, and then to brown the meat before setting it to cook on manual. Cook the ropa vieja for 35 minutes on manual/loftier pressure setting, then allow information technology release naturally for 15-20 minutes. Shred the beef, and toss information technology back into the sauce. The neat affair about Cuban ropa vieja is information technology tastes fifty-fifty more than astonishing after sitting in the fridge overnight. I honey making a large batch and and so dividing it into freezer bags, because the dish reheats beautifully. I also love using leftovers to make ropa vieja sliders, or Colombian empanadas.

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Slow Cooker Ropa Vieja (Cuban Shredded Beef Stew)

Course Main Course

Cuisine Cuban

Keyword ropa vieja

Prep Time 10 minutes

Cook Time eight hours

Ingredients

• ane tablespoon olive oil
• 2 1/ii – 3 lb flank steak or brim steak
• 1 tsp Adobo seasoning
• 2 tbsp sofrito
• i tsp Sazon seasoning
• 1 teaspoon dried oregano
• 1 teaspoon cumin
• 8 ounces tomato sauce
• 1/4 cup dry red wine optional
• 1 loving cup low sodium beefiness broth or stock
• two dried bay leaves
• 1 cube beef bouillon
• two tablespoons pimento-blimp olives
• 2 tbsp fresh cilantro, chopped optional
• 1/iii loving cup jarred roasted red peppers, sliced
• salt and pepper, to taste

Instructions

Deadening Cooker Instructions

1. Flavor the beef with 1 teaspoon of adobo seasoning.

2. Heat up a pan on medium-high heat and drizzle in the olive oil. Sear the beef on both sides for two-3 minutes, until it is browned. Take the beef out of the pan and gear up it aside.

3. Add the sofrito, sazon, oregano, cumin, tomato sauce, red vino, beef broth, bay leaves, beef burgoo and olives into the tedious cooker insert. Stir it together.

4. Place the roast into the liquid.

5. Melt the roast on low for 8 hours or high for iv. When the roast is done, pull it out of the sauce and shred with a 2 forks.

6. Remove the bay leaves. Add together the sliced roasted red peppers and cilantro into the sauce.

7. Add the shredded beefiness back into the sauce. Taste for last seasoning, and add salt if needed. Serve hot.

Instant Pot Instructions

1. Season the beef with i teaspoon of adobo seasoning.

2. Set the Instant Pot on the "Saute" setting, and drizzle in the olive oil. Sear the beef on both sides for 2-3 minutes, until it is browned.

3. Add the sofrito, sazon, oregano, cumin, tomato plant sauce into the IP with the beef. Stir to combine.

4. Add the red wine, beef broth, bay leaves, beefiness bouillon and olives into the IP, and stir.

5. Put the lid on the instant pot and lock into identify. Ready the timer on manual/high for 35 minutes.

6. In one case the timer goes off, let the instant pot pressure release naturally for 15-twenty minutes.

7. Remove the chapeau, and shred the beefiness with ii forks. Add the shredded beef back into the sauce, and toss in the sliced red peppers and cilantro. Taste for seasoning, and accommodate as needed. Serve hot.

Slow Cooker Ropa Vieja (Cuban Shredded Beef Stew)

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