slow cooker taco meat with homemade taco seasoning

How To Make slow cooker taco meat with homemade taco seasoning

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  Gather your ingredients.
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  Mix all the dry spices together.
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  Chop up the onions.
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  Place the ground beef in a mixing bowl.
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  Add the dry spices, the onion, and 4 tablespoons of beef stock or water.
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  Mix the ingredients together.
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  Chef’s Note: You don’t have to go too crazy with the mixing. Just get them combined. They will have plenty of time in the slow cooker to get to know each other.
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  Add the mixture to the slow cooker, and then add the remaining beef stock, or water.
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  Set your slow cooker to low, and set a timer for two hours.
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  After two hours open the slow cooker, and breakup the taco meat.
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  Return the cover to the slow cooker, and set the timer for an additional two hours.
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  After two hours, open slow cooker and again break the meat apart.
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  Chef’s Tip: You might want to have some additional beef broth on hand, just in case the taco meat begins to dry out.
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  Close the lid, and set the timer for the last two hours.
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  At the end of six hours total time, remove that wonderful smelling taco meat from the slow cooker.
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  Chef's Note: If there is any grease, absorb it with a few paper towels. However, if you use lean ground beef, you probably won't have this problem.
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  What you do at this point is totally up to you. It goes good on a taco salad, stuffed shells; just plain old tacos, or anything else you can come up with. Enjoy.
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  Keep the faith, and keep cooking.
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