This recipe is delicious, oh yes! Adapted from I Breathe Im Hungry website, comes a low carb and gluten free dinner, or hearty lunch for you to gobble up.
Cuban Hot Pot – Low Carb & Gluten Free
Ingredients
- 1 steak boneless chuck beef (or similar cut)
- 1 red chilli, chopped finely
- 1 cup diced tomatoes
- 1 cup water or beef/chicken/vege stock
- 2 Tbsp dried onion flakes
- 1 tsp garlic powder
- 1/2 cup red and yellow peppers chopped
- 1 tsp salt
- 2 Tbsp ground cumin
- 1 Tbsp ground coriander *
- 1 tsp dried oregano
- 1 Tbsp chilli powder
- 1/2 tsp black pepper
- 2 Tbsp apple cider vinegar (optional)
* I love to leave out the ground coriander and top with fresh coriander when serving.
Method
- Generously season the steak with salt and pepper.
- Sear in a hot pan until browned on all sides.
- Place the meat in the bottom of your slow cooker.
- Add your chillis, and tomatoes to the pan you seared the meat in. Deglaze and bring to a boil. Pour over the meat in the crock pot.
- Add the onion flakes, garlic, peppers, salt, cumin, coriander, oregano, chili powder, black pepper, and apple cider vinegar and stir.
- Cook for 4hrs on high, or 6hrs on low (or until the meat is tender). I like to stir it every so often too
- Shred the meat (optional as is should be falling apart anyway) and serve with your choice of toppings – guacamole and fresh lime is to die for!
Brown that meat!
I add the stock straight into the tomato tin to get the rest of the tomato.
Stir and it’s ready to go!
Notes
– I love this to have a lot of liquid, so its more of a thick soup, but if you would rather it be a thicker consistency, simply add less water/stock.
– This recipe also works well with 4-6 chicken thighs, when I first tried this recipe I did it with these instead of steak. Just as tasty.
– Instead of plain hot water you can add a beef stock cube to have more flavour.
If you give this recipe a go – let me know, I’d love to know how it turned out for you
Laura xx
Yum! This looks so good. I think it’s about time I invested in a slow cooker!
It really really is good – haha. Slow cookers are actually pretty reasonable. We got a little one (I think ours is a Zip, 4.5 L) as there is only two of us, but that is easily big enough to put a big meal for 6+ people in as well!
Also the convenience with slow cookers are great. I spent less than 20 minutes preparing this dish and popped in on high for 4 hours and BOOM deliciousness.
I love the slow cooker so much! You can throw pretty much anything in there and it tastes awesome and doesn’t take long to make!!
You are so right! I did that once with some beef, ended up with a really nice BBQy shredded beef for burgers, cannot for the life of me remember what went in there though! haha
Slow cooker meals are the best! This is definitely on my list of goodies to make
They are so easy! I can’t get over it. The cumin in this meal really makes it taste amazing xx hope you do give it a try as it’s so yum! xx
YUM!! Will have to give this a go. I’m loving my slow cooker at the mo – I make enough for two nights so I don’t have to cook the next night. Win – win. Thanks for sharing Laura 🙂
I hope you do try it Nicola – it’s honestly so easy!
Let me know how you get on xx
Will try this in the weekend! Thanks for the recipe… <3 (P.s. Woo first time commenting on your blog!)
Yum! I need to invest in a slow cooker just so I can make this!
It looks delicious! I look forward to trying when the weather cools down.
That looks scrumptious. I love my slow cooker – I’m out tomorrow night so I think I’ll do this for the whanau.