If you have more than one crock pot or slow cooker get them out! Today you will need to crock pots, one for the carne guisada, and the other for refried black beans.
So what is carne guisada, it is a Mexican style beef stew served over rice or in tortillas. This is a simple recipe, not a lot of vegetables and the meat is extremely tender. We ate this on tortillas, spooned in steamed white rice and the refried black beans. Add a little lettuce, shredded cheese, sour cream and cilantro to dress up your tortilla and expand the flavors.
I like to cook dishes like this in a crock-pot or slow cooker. The smell of it cooking all day, keeps anticipation of a great dinner coming our way. I warn you now that you will have to guard your crock-pot while this cooking. The drool worth smell drives people to want to remove the lid and savor the scent. With slow cookers and crock-pots, removing the lid is a very bad thing! It takes almost half hour plus for them to regain the heat that is lost from removing the lid. If you ever needed an endorsement for these recipes, they did win a “you’ve got to put this on the blog” comment from the kids.
Another plus of cooking this stew in a crock-pot, is during the summer you can have a fantastic meal without heating the oven or your house!
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