Slow-Cooker Ropa Vieja

Name: Slow-Cooker Ropa Vieja
Yield: Serves 4 to 6
Cuisine: Europe, Spanish & Portuguese
Ingredients: 3 tablespoons, vegetable oil; 2 , onions, halved and sliced thin; 2 , red bell peppers, stemmed, seeded, and sliced into 1/2-inch-wide strips; 1/4 cup, tomato paste; 4 , garlic cloves, minced; 2 teaspoons, ground cumin; 1 1/2 teaspoons, dried oregano; , Salt and pepper; 1/2 cup, dry white wine; 2 tablespoons, soy sauce; 2 , bay leaves; 1 (2-pound), flank steak, trimmed and cut crosswise against grain into 4 equal pieces; 3/4 cup, pitted green olives, sliced; 1 tablespoons, distilled white vinegar

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Appears in Cook's Country June/July 2017

Some dishes need extensive adaptations to work in a slow cooker. This one is tailor-made for it.

SERVES4 to 6

TIME6 to 7 hours on low or 5 to 6 hours on high

WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

For ropa vieja that’s easy to prepare but retains all the flavor of more time-consuming traditional recipes, we turned to the slow cooker. To avoid the common slow cooker pitfall of soupiness, we nixed the beef broth in favor of two other u...

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