Slow cooker beef burritos are loaded with tender, saucy beef, refried beans, and cheese!
These beef burritos are one of my favorite comfort foods. What's not to love about beef stuffed burritos smothered with sauce and cheese?
The enchilada sauce that used for this recipe starts off as store-bought. If you have a great homemade enchilada sauce, by all means, use it. My Chili Colorado Smothered Burritos has a homemade enchilada sauce.
What is a smothered burrito?
A smothered burrito also known as a wet burrito. It's a burrito that has been covered with enchilada sauce and cheese. Baked and topped with all your favorite toppings.
How to wrap a burrito!
Add your filling down the center. Fold in both sides, bring up the bottom up over the filling. Keeping everything tight finish rolling it out.
Tips for making slow cooker beef burritos
- This recipe makes 8 large burritos but you can easily adjust the recipe to make smaller ones.
- These burritos can be made ahead of time for an easy weeknight meal. Or even frozen.
- They can be baked all at once are heated up individually.
- Freeze the leftover chipotle peppers for another use.
What goes with slow cooker beef burritos?
MAKE SURE TO FOLLOW ME ON FACEBOOK, INSTAGRAM, PINTEREST FOR ALL MY LATEST RECIPES.
Slow Cooker Beef Burrito
Ingredients
- 2 ½ lbs beef chuck roast cut into chunks
- 2 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon black pepper
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- 1 large white onion chopped
- 1 pkg taco seasoning
- 2 beef bouillon cubes
- 1 chipotle pepper in adobo sauce
- 1 tablespoon adobo sauce
- 3 cloves garlic minced
- 1 -19 oz can enchilada sauce
- 1-19 oz can refried beans
- 8-12 inch size flour tortillas
- 3-4 cups pepper jack cheese
Instructions
- Heat a large pot or skillet and add oil. Season meat with salt and pepper. Brown the meat cubes 1-2 minutes on each side. Place meat in the slow cooker with chopped onions.
- Add taco seasoning, chipotle pepper, beef bullion cubes,garlic and enchilada sauce.
- Cook on high 4-5 hours or low 7-8 hours.
- Remove meat chunks and shred with two forks.
- Strain the onions from the sauce and add them to the shredded beef. Set the remaining sauce aside.
- Preheat oven to 400 degrees.
- Lay a tortilla out on a flat surface. Add ¼ cup refried beans, ½ cup shredded beef, 2-3 tablespoon cheese. Fold the side of the tortilla in and roll. Repeat. Place the burrito seam side down in a 9x13 baking dish. Pour the strained sauce over the top and add the rest of the cheese.
- Baked for 25 minutes.
- Serve with your favorite toppings
How would this translate to cooking in the instapot? For how long would you do the beef?
Technically enchiladas are made with corn tortillas and wet burritos with large flour tortillas. Also, a burrito is wrapped in a way that it is fully closed and an enchilada has the ends open. You can certainly call it whatever you want, as long as it tastes good right?
I would call this an enchilada. Enchiladas are baked, whereas wet burritos are just burritos covered with sauce.
I've never made this recipe with ground beef, if you try it let me know how it turns out 🙂
Can I make this with ground beef?
Nancy if you put whole can in it will be way to spicy 🌶 just one pepper from the can.
Only one pepper, one can would be way too hot. You can freeze the rest for later use.
In this slow cooker burrito recipe you say one chipolte pepper. Do you mean one actual pepper or one can of chipollte
Peppers
Yay Michele its a HUGE favorite in our house too. So happy you both loved it 🙂
Made this today for my husband for father's day. OMG !!!. It turned out soooo good. My husband loved it. This recipe is definitely a keeper.