Full of flavor these Slow Cooker Street Tacos are minimal ingredient, fix it and forget it meal that is perfect for any night of the week! Simple ingredients makes this whip up quickly and easily and feeds a crowd! One recipe to keep on your menu rotation for good.
Street Tacos and me are tight. They are absolutely one of my most favorite foods EVER. These Slow Cooker Street Tacos are one of my absolute favorite.
We also make this in our Instant Pot which is really good, and we also adore these Fish Tacos and Chicken Taquitos as great alternatives to taco night.
The flavor alone on these are to die for, I could eat the meat alone with a fork and not even bat an eye. But put together in street taco form is much better.
WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS:
- With simple ingredients all you need to do is put your meat into your crockpot, whisk together your marinade and cook.
- The sauce added to the top of these Street Tacos really adds the citrus and zing that really sets these apart.
- The meat leftover can be used for a variety of things such as quesadillas, burrito bowls or for breakfast.
Our family is just general taco lovers. This Slow Cooker Street Taco recipe is one that they actually request me to make over and over again. It is not too spicy where they cant enjoy it, it has just the right amount of heat.
HOW TO MAKE STREET TACOS, STEP BY STEP:
- Place your steak in bottom of slow cooker and in bowl or measuring cup mix together your olive oil, orange juice, worcestershire sauce, cilantro, garlic, honey, chili powder and cumin and stir until blended.
- Pour over your meat and stir around slightly to distribute. Cover and cook on low for about 8 hours.
- Remove meat from slow cooker and shred, or you can shred it in slow cooker as well, place back in slow cooker and let it soak up the juices.
- To make your Garlic Lime Sauce in bowl whisk together your olive oil, sour cream, lime juice, lime zest and garlic until combined, serve over tacos with pico de gallo, cojita or queso fresco cheese.
See how simple this Street Taco Recipe is? I mean come on, you really don’t need ALLLLL the ingredients to make a good meal, sometimes simple works best.
Thats exactly what this recipe is, simple. Plus you can just put it in your slow cooker and go to work and come home having your house smell absolutely delicious.
WHAT BEEF IS GOOD FOR TACOS?
- Flank Steak
- Skirt Steak
- Carne Asada meat (prepackaged labeled as this)
At our local store they prepackage “carne asada” meat to be used in recipes like this, otherwise we love using Flank steak for this recipe when we can find it.
Any thin cut of steak can essentially be used since this is cooked low and slow it helps break down the tough fibers in the steak and make it easy to shred.
CORN VS. FLOUR TORTILLAS:
This is a debate that you will have to figure out yourself. Now I’m more or less a flour tortilla fan, and we actually can find “street taco” sized tortillas at our local grocer.
I know a lot of people are on team corn tortilla, while you can use regular corn or white corn or regular flour tortillas, make sure you get smaller sized, because Street Tacos are meant to be street food, smaller portions for the person on the go.
So whatever your preference, just make sure that you use smaller tortillas because it helps ensure less mess.
WHAT OTHER MEATS MAKE A GOOD STREET TACO?
I love steak in my street tacos, but there are so many other different flavors that you can make with them. You can do grilled steak, grilled chicken, shredded chicken, carnitas, shrimp, fish, etc.
The flavors are pretty much endless when it comes to this recipe. I do still love the marinade for this, so we prefer making ours in the slow cooker with the steak, but if you want to do chicken, pork or regular steak, you can marinate the meat itself overnight with this marinade recipe.
TIPS AND TRICKS FOR MAKING STREET TACOS:
- Make sure you cook on low, do not take any shortcuts and cook on high, this will produce a tougher cut of meat and you want fall apart.
- Refrigerate the sauce for a little bit before serving, let the flavors marry.
- If you cant find flank steak, skirt steak can also be used.
- Let the meat rest in the liquid after shredding so it can soak up some flavors, if you’re worried about the tacos being too juicy, double up on the tortillas!
If you’re looking for your new favorite taco recipe and you are short on time and just want be able to fix it and forget it so to speak then these Slow Cooker Street Tacos are just what is calling your name!
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Ingredients
- 2 lbs flank steak
- 1/4 cup olive oil
- 1/4 cup orange juice
- 1/4 cup worcestershire sauce
- 1/4 cup cilantro , chopped
- 1 1/2 tsp minced garlic
- 1 Tbs honey
- 1 tsp chili powder
- 1 tsp cumin
- Small fajita or street taco tortillas
- Pico de gallo
- Cilantro
- Queso fresco
Garlic Lime Sauce:
- 1/2 cup sour cream
- 1 Tbs olive oil
- 1 clove garlic , minced
- 2 Tbs lime juice
- 2 tsp lime zest
Instructions
- Place your steak in bottom of crock pot.
- In bowl mix together your olive oil, orange juice, worcestershire sauce, cilantro, garlic, honey, chili powder and cumin and stir until blended.
- Pour over your meat and stir around slightly to distribute.
- Cover and cook on low for about 8 hours or until tender, remove meat from slow cooker and shred, return to slow cooker and let soak up juices.
- To make sauce combine all ingredients in small bowl and whisk to combine.
- To assemble tacos, place meat on bottom of your tortilla and top with the garlic lime sauce, pico de gallo, cheese and cilantro.
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Notes
- Make sure you cook on low, do not take any shortcuts and cook on high, this will produce a tougher cut of meat and you want fall apart.
- Refrigerate the sauce for a little bit before serving, let the flavors marry.
- If you cant find flank steak, skirt steak can also be used.
- Let the meat rest in the liquid after shredding so it can soak up some flavors, if you're worried about the tacos being too juicy, double up on the tortillas!
Nutrition
Tornadough Alli is not a nutritionist or dietitian, and any nutritional information shared is an estimate. If calorie count and nutritional value is important to you, we recommend running the ingredients through whichever online nutritional calculator you prefer. Calories and values can vary depending on which brands were used.
ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED MAY, 2017
Julie
These were really good. I loved them and they were really easy to make. I’m glad I found this recipe and have another Mexican recipe.
Tornadough Alli
I’m so happy you liked them! We adore these tacos, but who doesn’t love tacos to begin with!
Marlene
Can I use a small chuck roast in slow cooker with all the spices and stuff? Its just a good flavored beef shredded right?
Tornadough Alli
Pretty much yes, you should be able to use just a roast for this recipe, it’s mostly in the spices!
Renee
Could I use carne picada. That’s all I can find.
Tornadough Alli
That should work just fine! I know its hard to find carne aside some times and we have used both 🙂
Lindsey
Can you cook on high for 4-6 hours?
Tornadough Alli
I haven’t tried it, but you can absolutely try! I’m not sure if it will result in the same tenderness but if you do happy to attempt it let me know how it turned out!
Allyson Zea
I love making street tacos! Can’t wait to try this slow cooker recipe!
Erin | Dinners,Dishes and Dessert
This is seriously making me hungry!
Jamielyn
So yummy! Perfect for taco Tuesday 🙂
Sarah
Thank you for the simple instructions. I am making this recipe this weekend for friends!
Tornadough Alli
Yay! I hope you all enjoy it!
Emily Hill
I love slow cooker tacos. They’re perfect for those crazy weeknights!
Jessica Burgess
Ok there is NO reason that I should be going to the Mexican restaurant anymore when I can have this at home now! This looks way better than what they serve! Haha! So delish!
Denise
Can you replace chicken breasts instead of the beef???
Tornadough Alli
You sure can. I would cut the cooking time down to 4-6 hours.
Tiffany
Should the meet be shredded in the crockpot or do you pull it out and toss the liquid?
Tornadough Alli
We shred it directly in the crockpot itself. But you could really do it either way.
Amanda
They taste absolutely amazing. I was very blown away by how incredible all the flavors came together.
Idk why but the meat wasn’t as tinder as I thought though. I’m thinking it may be something I did. I also should have cut it up better instead of leaving it stringy. I bet next time I’ll have it mastered! Thanks for sharing this great recipe. It made our Cinco de Mayo a great memory. 🙂
Kathy TeBrink
What type of cheese in your photo?
Tornadough Alli
Kathy, it is Queso Fresco 🙂
Laura
I did grocery pick up and didn’t notice till I was cleaning up from putting everything in the crockpot. They gave me flat iron steak—will that work?? 😔
Tornadough Alli
I think it should work fine.
Michaela
Yum! I made these last night with pork for carnitas (we didn’t have steak) and they were amazing! My boyfriend couldn’t stop raving about them!
Tornadough Alli
Yay! That’s such a great thing to hear!! So happy you guys enjoyed these.
Kenna
Thank you for the recipe! My husband said these are the best street tacos he’s ever eaten!
Kristi
How many will the recipe feed? Excited to try it out!
Tornadough Alli
Hi Kristi, it should feed a family of 5-6 easily.
shelly
Hi, Can I use Skirt Steak for these? That’s all I have at the moment.
Tornadough Alli
Yes! Skirt steak will work perfectly it will absorb the flavors well too!
Amber Struble
Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!
I made these today. Total perfection.
I wouldn’t change a thing.
Tornadough Alli
Yay! Thats so great to hear. These are my favorite tacos and I can’t get enough of them. I’m so happy you liked them.
shelly
Awesome! Thank you!