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A 7-ingredient slow cooker honey garlic beef recipe that cooks for 8-10 hours! This pulled beef is very versatile and can be used on sandwiches, in tacos, or in rice bowls!

Slow Cooker Honey Garlic Beef, a simple 7-ingredient slow cooker recipe that cooks for 8-10 hours! Plus 3 recipes to use up your left-overs.

Hi friends!

I’m back at it again with the 3-in-1 slow cooker recipes. Why did that sentence just sound like “Damn Daniel”? <–Google it if you don’t know what I’m talking about. If you’re like me, you WON’T get it, and it will make you worried for the future of that generation.

OK all jokes aside, I have been TRYING to share this recipe with you FOREVER! Seriously, I have had this 3-in-1 slow cooker recipe series ready for at least 3 weeks now (which never happens in Denise-world).

And I am so happy to finally share it with you!
 



Slow Cooker Honey Garlic Beef, a simple 7-ingredient slow cooker recipe that cooks for 8-10 hours! Plus 3 recipes to use up your left-overs.

Slow Cooker Honey Garlic Beef, a simple 7-ingredient slow cooker recipe that cooks for 8-10 hours! Plus 3 recipes to use up your left-overs.

Allright?

Slow Cooker Honey Garlic Beef. Which is totally NOT like the honey garlic sauce that you can buy at the store. I actually looked at the ingredients list in the store-bought sauce and tried to recreate it, but it was overly complicated for little flavor and that’s not how I roll when it comes to the slow cooker.

So simple and easy is how it went. Also, not too saucy. Because I just can’t deal with overly-saucy pulled pork and the same applies to beef!

But moist? Yes. And flavorful? YES. And only 7 ingredients? Now that’s how I roll.

Slow Cooker Honey Garlic Beef, a simple 7-ingredient slow cooker recipe that cooks for 8-10 hours! Plus 3 recipes to use up your left-overs.

Slow Cooker Honey Garlic Beef, a simple 7-ingredient slow cooker recipe that cooks for 8-10 hours! Plus 3 recipes to use up your left-overs.

Slow Cooker Honey Garlic Beef, a simple 7-ingredient slow cooker recipe that cooks for 8-10 hours! Plus 3 recipes to use up your left-overs.

Now I guess this isn’t what I’d call a really pretty plate of meat. Is pulled meat ever pretty?! But it sure is tasty. It has a nice sweet and savory thing going on, with subtle garlic flavors.

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This recipe makes a good 5-6 cups of pulled beef, and in my little bitty family of three, that’s a LOT of left-overs. So yay! I have some delicious ways to use up the Honey Garlic Beef leftovers, which will be published throughout the week.

Let’s check them out:

1. Honey Garlic Beef Rice Bowls with Crispy Wontons

Honey Garlic Beef Rice Bowls with Crispy Wonton Chips

2. Pulled Beef Sandwiches with Sriracha MayoPulled Beef Sandwiches with Sriracha Mayo-8

3. Roasted Vegetable, Feta & Pulled Beef TacosRoasted Vegetable Pulled Beef Tacos

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Slow Cooker Honey Garlic Beef

Course: Dinner
Cuisine: Slow Cooker
Calories: 144kcal
Author: Denise
Servings: 10 -12
A sweet and savory pulled beef recipe that takes only 10 minutes prep time! This beef is very versatile and can be used on sandwiches, salads, stir fries, or tacos!
Prep Time10 mins
Cook Time8 hrs
Total Time8 hrs 10 mins

Ingredients

  • 1 kg/2 lbs boneless beef roast
  • 1 cup chicken stock
  • 1/4 cup honey
  • 1/4 cup brown sugar
  • 2 tablespoons soy sauce I use reduced sodium
  • 1 teaspoon worcestershire sauce
  • 6 cloves garlic minced

Instructions

  • Cut the beef in half lengthwise and trim as much fat off as possible. Place the two slices side-by-side in the bottom of a slow cooker.
  • Whisk together all remaining ingredients and pour over the beef. Make sure it gets right underneath.
  • Cook on low for 8-10 hours.
  • Remove beef from slow cooker and place in a large bowl. Gently pull apart using two forks.
  • Add back cooking liquid (I added about ⅔ of the cooking liquid back), and toss to coat.

Notes

I use a 5 qt slow cooker.
This recipe produces 5-6 cups of pulled beef, which works out to 10-12 servings (1/2 cup size).
Beef keeps in a sealed container in the refrigerator for 3-4 days, and freezes well.

Nutrition

Serving: 1/2 cup | Calories: 144kcal | Carbohydrates: 11g | Protein: 17g | Fat: 4g | Sodium: 196mg | Sugar: 10g
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    • Hi Jessica! You can actually do it either way! 1) assemble with all ingredients but don’t cook (freeze up to 3 months). Thaw completely when you want to cook. 2) cook, cool, portion out and freeze for up to 3 months. Hope this helps!

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  2. I’m not normally a big fan of slow cooker beef, but “honey garlic” does sound pretty good… I might have to give this a try sometime. Your pictures do it make it look pretty tasty!

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  3. Made this for dinner tonight and it is amazing. My favourite slow cooker recipe so far. Everyone in my family loved it and that’s no mean feat! I live at altitude so I cooked the first hour on high and then on love for the rest of the time and it was perfect. Bliss in a bowl!

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  4. Hi! I would like to make this recipe specifically to use in your related beef and roasted veggie taco recipe, so I don’t want the full serving that this makes. If I half the whole recipe and put just one pound of meat in the crockpot rather than two, would you suggest changing the cooking time or heat setting? Thanks!

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    • Hi Marissa! I have only tried it as written, but often when I half a recipe like this one, I will cook it in my small (2.5 quart) slow cooker. Do you have a smaller crock pot? I’m just worried that there won’t be enough liquid for a large slow cooker and it might burn. If you are around to keep an eye on it that could work.

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      • Thanks! I ended up making the full-size recipe and used it in the beef/roasted veggie tacos and oh my goodness- SO GOOD! I wasn’t sure how I’d like them because I’m not always nuts about tomatoes and I honestly don’t know if I had ever had feta before this, but the tacos- and the pulled beef- were outstanding. I made them for myself (24) and two guys who are about the same age and everyone liked them! I served all of the parts (veggies, beef, greek yogurt, feta and lemon) separately so that they could skip on a certain part if they wanted to, but everyone loved everything. I had two, one of the guys had three, and the other had like… 4 of them! I will 100% make this beef and those tacos again!

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  5. I just got a slow cooker two weeks ago (they’re hardly used here in Germany though it seems such an obvious choice when you’re a working mom). This sounds so yummy I had to try it. Yay garlic 😀 . My 2 year old had used all my measuring cups for playing so since I had to head off for work I did’nt have time to clean them. So I winged it, trying to keep your ratio of ingredients, adding extra garlic because I just could not resist. Looked and smelled good. I’m so looking forward to tasting it!

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  6. Tried this 2 weeks ago and totally loved it. My 1 y.o. Doesn’t really eat beef but with this time she went for second helping! Will be making it again.

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  7. Silly question maybe but how do you find is best to reheat the meat for the next day meal? Tonight we did the rice bowls and my family (even my picky 5 year old) enjoyed it. Tomorrow we will do the pulled pork.

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    • I haven’t made this one in awhile but we like re-heating pulled pork and pulled beef in a frying pan…it helps with the texture and makes it not too soggy as it can end up in the microwave.

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  8. It still needed some flavoring, it was very juicy and well cooked of course. So to give it its final kick- I added a tablespoon of mustard and soy suace to my serving. It was yummy! Next time, I’ll add enough to the whole pot while it cooks.

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  9. Hi Marilyn, thanks so much for your comment! I actually have no experience cooking game meat, although I’m from Northern BC so I have definitely eaten it! This recipe should work with many cuts of meat. I wonder if this Slow Cooker Sesame Ginger Beef might be good with moose meat? Otherwise have you heard of Hunter Angler Gardener Cook? He has a TON of recipes specifically for game meat and is much more of an expert than me 🙂 Good luck!

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  10. I’m thinking this might actually work great for game meat. I’m going to try it and let you know. Unless you have already been there! Please let me know if you have any other suggestions for taming the wild things. Thanks
    Marilyn k.

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  13. Homemade sauces are always better, and so are fewer ingredients! I love the sound of these flavors, and this beef would be a huge hit here at my house. I’m especially loving the looks of those pulled beef sandwiches!

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  15. So glad you are finally getting around to sharing this, Denise, because holy cow (pun intended)! This beef looks seriously delicious! Honey and garlic coating some super tender beef?! Um Yes please! Love the little sneak peaks of whats to come!!! SO Much YUM! Cheers, girlie!

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    • Hi Connie, I used a boneless blade roast, which is a cheaper shoulder cut. It may be called a chuck or shoulder roast in other parts of the world…but you could really use almost any kind of roast. You could even use bone-in, but it’s a pain to cut in half. I hope that helps!

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