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  6. 15 Slow-Cooker Beef Dinners You'll Want to Make Forever

15 Slow-Cooker Beef Dinners You'll Want to Make Forever

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Slow-Cooker Braised Beef with Carrots & Turnips

You can count on the slow cooker for tender, flavorful beef that's the centerpiece of a healthy dinner. These top-rated meals run the gamut from spicy tacos to veggie-packed pot roasts, so you're sure to find something you'll love. Recipes like our Slow-Cooker Braised Beef with Carrots & Turnips and Slow-Cooker Beef-Barley Soup with Red Wine & Pesto are tasty meals you can set and forget.

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Slow-Cooker Carne Picada Tacos with Avocado Salsa

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Loosely translated as "minced meat," the traditional texture of carne picada ranges from finely chopped to ground. Here we start with brisket, which becomes nice and tender in the slow cooker, then shred and chop the meat before serving. The seasoning is flavorful but not too spicy. Blistered jalapeños added at the end will satisfy the heat-lovers in the family. Pile the brisket into warmed corn tortillas, with lettuce, the jalapeños, cheese and avocado salsa for a healthy dinner that'll wake up your taco night routine.

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Slow-Cooker Braised Beef with Carrots & Turnips

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The spice blend in this healthy beef stew recipe--cinnamon, allspice and cloves--may conjure images of apple pie, but the combo is a great fit in savory applications too. Serve over creamy polenta or buttered whole-wheat egg noodles.

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Slow-Cooker Korean Beef & Cabbage Stew

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Brown sugar makes this slow-cooker beef stew a tad sweet, which beautifully complements the spicy kimchi. You can make this soup ahead and refrigerate it until ready to eat. If you opt to make it ahead, wait until you reheat the soup to add the cabbage.

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Slow-Cooker Beef-Barley Soup with Red Wine & Pesto

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Hearty, thick, rich--this is just how a winter soup should be. The meat and carrots become tender yet retain their texture, and the kale offers freshness. Garnish each serving of this slow-cooker beef and barley soup with additional pesto and fresh basil and oregano sprigs, if desired.

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Spicy Tomato-Braised Pot Roast

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This tomato sauce gets its heat from Calabrian chiles. Find them whole or chopped packed in jars near the pickles in well-stocked grocery stores. If you don't have any, just a bit of crushed red pepper will do the trick. Serve over polenta, mashed potatoes or pasta.

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Layered Brisket Dinner with Tangy Mustard Sauce

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Perfectly seasoned red potatoes and baby carrots accompany this filling brisket dish.

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Nonna's Spaghetti & Meatballs

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The meatballs and sauce are cooked in the slow cooker for this traditional Italian spaghetti and meatballs recipe. You could also serve the meatballs over creamy polenta or on a sandwich with melted provolone.

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Slow-Cooker Brisket Sandwiches with Quick Pickles

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Make your BBQ or cookout easy with this slow-cooker beef brisket recipe. Rauchbier, a smoky German beer, gives this fork-tender brisket real pit-barbecue flavor, but you can use any beer that suits your taste, or even substitute beef broth, to achieve mouthwatering results. While the brisket is cooking, whip up the quick pickle recipe and stir together a garlic mayo to top off the sandwiches.

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Slow-Cooker "Corned Beef" & Cabbage

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This warming slow-cooker stew has all the flavors of corned beef and cabbage but with much less sodium, plus it's ready in half the time of traditional corned beef and cabbage. Rather than curing the beef in a salty brine for at least a day, we just throw the beef and veggies into a crock pot with pickling spice for that delicous briny flavor without the long soaking period.

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Slow-Cooker Beef Tacos with Rhubarb Salsa

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The fresh salsa in this easy load-and-go taco recipe is a great way to use spring rhubarb. If you don't have rhubarb, try subbing in fresh tomatillos or red bell pepper for an equally beautiful and delicious taco topper.

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Pasta Puttanesca with Beef

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This easy slow cooker ground beef and pasta recipe makes a great meal any night of the week.

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Slow-Cooker Beef Stew

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Load the crock pot and go with this stew recipe that's prepped in the morning and simmers all day so you'll come home to a Sunday-worthy dinner (and your house smelling downright heavenly). Tender beef, melt-in-your-mouth potatoes and carrots in a rich broth--this could be the best and easiest beef stew you've ever made.

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Slow-Cooker Beef Stroganoff

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This slow-cooker Beef Stroganoff recipe brings together tender beef and fresh mushrooms served over hot noodles with a creamy sauce.

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Spaghetti Lover's Soup

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This easy slow-cooker soup has all the great flavors of your favorite dish of spaghetti with beef sauce, without a lot of fussy preparation.

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Slow-Cooker Stuffed Pepper Soup

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This stuffed pepper soup uses the slow cooker to create a flavorful, easy meal perfect for any night of the week.

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    1 of 15 Slow-Cooker Carne Picada Tacos with Avocado Salsa
    2 of 15 Slow-Cooker Braised Beef with Carrots & Turnips
    3 of 15 Slow-Cooker Korean Beef & Cabbage Stew
    4 of 15 Slow-Cooker Beef-Barley Soup with Red Wine & Pesto
    5 of 15 Spicy Tomato-Braised Pot Roast
    6 of 15 Layered Brisket Dinner with Tangy Mustard Sauce
    7 of 15 Nonna's Spaghetti & Meatballs
    8 of 15 Slow-Cooker Brisket Sandwiches with Quick Pickles
    9 of 15 Slow-Cooker "Corned Beef" & Cabbage
    10 of 15 Slow-Cooker Beef Tacos with Rhubarb Salsa
    11 of 15 Pasta Puttanesca with Beef
    12 of 15 Slow-Cooker Beef Stew
    13 of 15 Slow-Cooker Beef Stroganoff
    14 of 15 Spaghetti Lover's Soup
    15 of 15 Slow-Cooker Stuffed Pepper Soup

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