The other day I bought a clearance pot roast at ALDI … so today I thought I’d tell you what I made with it! Seriously, this is the easiest Italian beef recipe EVER. Here’s what you need:
Ingredients
A slow cooker
A pot roast — 2.5 lbs+
Some minced garlic
A jar of pepperoncini
Directions
Put your pot roast in your Crock Pot. Add some minced garlic. Dump in a jar of pepperoncini (with juice). Cook 10 hours on low. Remove pepperoncini — you can discard them or reserve to eat with the beef, your choice. Pull off the larger chunks of fat and discard. Move beef to separate container and shred; you don’t need a lot of the liquid, but add a bit to your own family’s taste. Discard the rest of the liquid.
Ta-da! Italian beef.
This is SO good…!
And, crock pot Italian beef is another easy and versatile recipe for allergies and Atkins. Mr. dairy-free 10 likes his just in a pile with some jalapeños on top, and eats it with a fork. Mr. 5 likes his on a little roll with some cheese. Mr. Atkins MashupDad will eat his either in a bowl with cheese, or on low-carb bread. It’s a lot easier to make adaptable recipes sometimes than to try to cook specifically around special diets. 
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Easy print version
- A slow cooker
- A pot roast — 2.5 lbs+
- Some minced garlic
- A jar of pepperoncini
- Put your pot roast in your Crock Pot.
- Add some minced garlic.
- Dump in a jar of pepperoncini (with juice).
- Cook 10 hours on low.
- Remove pepperoncini — you can discard them or reserve to eat with the beef, your choice.
- Pull off the larger chunks of fat and discard.
- Move beef to separate container and shred; you don’t need a lot of the liquid, but add a bit to your own family’s taste.
- Discard the rest of the liquid.
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Yum! I will have to try this!
I have an easy chicken crockpot recipe…. Whole chicken and a jar of salsa. Cook all day… Chicken literally falls off the bones …. I shredd it and we make chicken tacos… So easy and really good
I do that one with boneless skinless chicken breast, a packet of taco seasoning, and a jar of salsa! Yum
Try chicken with a packet of dry italian seasoning and pepperocini’s. AMAZING!!!
You can make the same thing with chicken breast. It will tastes exactly like the beef. I add gardinera to the chicken meat instead of all of the pepperocini. I also add about 1/4 of the oil from the gardinera.
I do almost the same recipe. I add the roast, a jar of gardinera (the whole thing), a jar of pepperoncini (with juice), and an envelope of Itallian salad dressing mix. SO GOOD! It’s our go to recipe for large parties.
can someone tell me the cover of the 1/6/ss where the chlorasepic coupon is. i can’t find it
It is in the Orange one titled Entrees, Snacks and Now Salads Too.
It is a single sheet above the Safety Safe Step Walk in tub ad.
An easy way to figure out which insert you need is to check on coupontom.com.
It is says SS3, take one of your SS inserts, flip to the first coupon you see and look that up
on coupontom, that week we had 3 SS inserts so the first search I did for you was for toaster strudel
that showed it to be in SS2, I took a different SS from the same week and did the same thing until I knew I had the correct insert in hand then flipped to find the chloraseptic coupon.
ok, wow, thank you so much
Okay…help me out ladies (and dudes)…I *love* cooking in the crockpot until the meat just falls apart…so yummy. But my husband considers the meat “dried out” when it gets to that point. What do you consider it?
If the meat you’re using is beef – like a pot roast – and it is 3 lbs. or more – the slow cooker helps break down that meat and it gets all wonderful, so cooking it a long time is beneficial. The smaller pieces of meat will, of course, cook faster. Chicken breasts – well, I’ve found that I have to cut down on the slow cooker cooking time because the breasts dry out. My family doesn’t like chicken in the crock pot AT ALL because of the skin on the chicken getting all floppy; family prefers crispy skin on chicken, so oven, here we come.
I’ve been searing the roast before I put in in the crockpot for this, my husband thinks it makes the flavor better & doesn’t make it taste “dried out”
Ah, my boyfriend does something similar to Atkins and it….sort of drives me nuts. I do WeightWatchers and love that I can still eat bread and ice cream and all that non-Atkins stuff. I feel like it’s so hard to come up with WW friendly meals for me that fit with his lowcarby lifestyle. This would be one we both could enjoy. Thanks!
That’s almost exactly how my mom has always made Italian Beef! Only she uses a small jar of sliced banana peppers, and NOTHING else. So good!