{"id":730,"date":"2015-03-11T07:00:16","date_gmt":"2015-03-11T07:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/betondinner.com\/?p=730"},"modified":"2018-08-30T01:35:19","modified_gmt":"2018-08-30T01:35:19","slug":"crockpot-bbq-beef","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/betondinner.com\/crockpot-bbq-beef\/","title":{"rendered":"Crockpot BBQ Beef."},"content":{"rendered":"

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I just love it when dinner cooks itself!! This is the best, best kind of crockpot meal –\u00a0absolutely minimal prep,\u00a0and at the end you have a pot of saucy, tender shredded bbq beef that makes a deliciously messy sandwich (or the perfect topping to a baked potato or rice – anything that will soak up all that flavor)!<\/p>\n

So: you need a chuck roast. I love this cut of beef for pot roast, too – it gets really tender if you cook it long and slow.<\/p>\n

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Season it up with salt and pepper, and paprika and garlic powder if you have an extra minute. The roast goes right into the pot – then you pour on a bottle of bbq sauce!<\/p>\n

…Or you\u00a0would,\u00a0<\/em>if you actually had a bottle in the pantry like you thought you did. This is what I could come up with:<\/p>\n

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The bottle on the right is a sweet ketchup-based sauce, which is the type I recommend for this recipe. The jar on the left had some homemade sauce (I basically use this recipe from Annie’s Eats<\/a>). In my desperation I poured in what was left of both of these, and the ingredients for a batch of the homemade sauce and hoped for the best. It worked out fine! (And don’t worry, I found my brand-new bottle in the pantry a few days later. *facepalm*)<\/p>\n

Then you pour a beer right over the top, and a few hours later you have perfectly tender beef that is falling apart and ready to be shredded up.<\/p>\n

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Pour the cooking liquid into a large measuring cup and skim off the fat. I like to mix a cup or so back into the beef so it’s super saucy but not soupy, but you can use all of it or none of it! You can also reserve some of the bbq sauce at the beginning and mix straight sauce in at the end rather than the cooking liquid if you prefer.<\/p>\n

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There’s no wrong way to eat this stuff – but I love it as a drippy, saucy sandwich!<\/p>\n

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It’s like bbq\u00a0beef candy, for real. If you’re lucky enough to be the one shredding it up, it’s hard to stop tasting it! And if the serving dish sits on the table too long, you might not have leftovers. Yum.<\/p>\n

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