Description
Indulge in these savory Beer-Braised Beef Sandwiches, featuring tender beef chuck roast cooked in dark beer and topped with a spicy chipotle cream cheese spread.
Ingredients
Scale
For the beef:
- 4 lb beef chuck roast (approx)
- 2 tbsp flour
- 2 tbsp olive oil
- 2 large onions, diced
- 2 carrots, diced
- 2 stalks celery, diced
- 4 cloves garlic, minced
- 1 (12 oz) bottle dark beer
- 1 cup beef broth
- 1 tsp dried rosemary
For the chipotle cream cheese sauce:
- 1 tbsp butter or olive oil
- 1/2 white onion, diced
- 2 cloves garlic, minced
- 1-2 tsp chile en adobo, minced (depending on how spicy you like it)
- 1/2 tsp cumin
- 1/4 tsp dried oregano
- 1 tbsp tomato paste
- 1 tbsp white wine vinegar
- 1/2 tbsp brown sugar
- 4 ounces cream cheese
- 1/2 cup milk or cream
- salt, to taste
Instructions
To make the beef:
- If you’re making it in the oven, preheat oven to 275 degrees F. If making it in a slow cooker, no preheating required.
- Season roast with salt and pepper, then sprinkle flour on both sides.
- In large cast iron dutch oven, heat olive oil over medium high heat.
- When hot, add roast and sear on both sides until a crisp brown crust forms.
- Remove roast from pot and set on a place.
- Add onion, carrots, and celery to pot, and toss with oil left in pan. Add another tablespoon of oil if you feel it’s needed. Season with salt.
- Add garlic, toss around, and cook for 2 minutes.
- Add beer, scraping the drippings from the bottom of the pot, then add beef broth, stirring everything.
- At this point, if you’re going to cook in a slow cooker, place roast in slow cooker and pour vegetable mixture and all liquid over roast. Cook on low for 8-10 hours or high for 4-6 hours, until meat easily shreds.
- If you’re going to continue cooking in dutch oven, return roast to pot. Cover, then place in 275 degree oven and cook for 4 hours, until meat easily shreds.
- Once meat is tender from either cooking method, remove meat from slow cooker or dutch oven and place in large bowl. Shred the meat with two forks.
- Add dijon mustard to broth and vegetable mixture.
- Using an immersion blender, puree vegetable and beer mixture.
- Return shredded meat to slow cooker or dutch oven and stir to mix.
- Pile beef and sauce on sandwich bun, on top of mashed potatoes, or noodles.
- Top with chipotle cream cheese
- Enjoy!
To make the chipotle cream cheese sauce:
- In small saucepan, melt butter over medium heat.
- Add onion and saute until translucent, about 4 minutes.
- Add garlic, then cook one more minute.
- Add chile en adobo, cumin, oregano, tomato paste, white wine vinegar, and brown sugar. Stir well and cook 1 more minute.
- Add cream cheese, stirring until melted and smooth.
- Add milk and mix well.
- Season with salt, to taste
- Simmer over medium heat for 3-4 minutes.
- Slather over beef sandwiches.
- Enjoy!
Notes
For a spicier kick, add more chipotle peppers to the cream cheese. Leftover beef can be stored in an airtight container in the refrigerator for up to 3 days. Reheat gently before serving. Serve with a side of coleslaw or pickles for added crunch.
- Prep Time: 30 minutes
- Cook Time: 8-10 hours
- Category: Main Course
- Cuisine: American
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1 sandwich
- Calories: 650
- Sugar: 6 grams
- Sodium: 850 mg
- Fat: 35 grams
- Carbohydrates: 35 grams
- Fiber: 2 grams
- Protein: 45 grams
- Cholesterol: 150 mg