Slow Cooker Beef and Cheddar Sandwiches–the easiest recipe to make ever. With only 4 ingredients total (beef, onion soup mix, cheddar and sandwich buns) you may be thinking that this recipe is just too easy to taste good. Well, you’re wrong ๐ The flavor is amazing and your family will be asking for seconds.
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Slow Cooker Beef and Cheddar Sandwiches
These types of recipes are why I love the slow cooker. It’s magical isn’t it? You can take a beef chuck roast and put it in the crock with some water and onion soup mix and come back to it 10 hours later and it’s magically the most flavorful and tender beef ever. Grab a few sandwich buns and toast them under the broiler and then pile on the beef and shredded cheddar cheese. Boom! That’s dinner.
This recipe is perfect for a busy parent who works all day. You can literally get this recipe going in like 2 minutes. Then you want to cook it low and slow all day long for best results. So it won’t matter if you won’t be home for like 11 hours. This recipe for slow cooker beef and cheddar sandwiches would all be perfect for serving a large crowd, like at a family reunion. Just get a few crockpots going with a large cut of beef and then buy some slider buns. You won’t have to slave all day to have a great dinner. I hope you’ll try this recipe soon!
Try these other super fast and easy beef crockpot recipes…
Slow Cooker French Dip Tacosโtender, moist shredded roast beef rolled up in a soft flour tortilla and topped with melty mozzarella cheese. Dip it in au jus sauce for best results!
Slow Cooker Beef Gyros Recipe–Tender pieces of beef with soft onions, juicy tomatoes, crisp lettuce, creamy cucumber yogurt sauce all wrapped up in soft, melt in your mouth pita bread. And the best part of slow cooker beef gyros is that the beef is made in the slow cooker freeing up your time and making your kitchen smell good all day long.
3 Envelope Crockpot Roast–You may have heard of 3-envelope roast before (or maybe not). ย Itโs simply cooking roast with a packet of ranch, a packet of gravy and a packet of Italian dressing mix. ย The roast gets super flavorful and the recipe really couldnโt be much easier. ย I decided to take this well-known and loved recipe and make my own โenvelopesโ of ranch mix, gravy mix and Italian dressing mix. ย That way if you arenโt okay with some of the ingredients in these packets you can make your own and know exactly what goes into what youโre eating.
And here are a couple more from some food blogger friends…
Slow Cooker Beef Stroganoff from Bev Cooks
Slow Cooker Beef and Vegetable Soup from Julie’s Eats and Treats
What Slow Cooker Did You Use?
For this recipe I used my 6 quart oval Kitchenaid slow cooker. I love this slow cooker (you can see me talking about it in a video here). It cooks low and evenly. I love the medium heat choice because most slow cookers that Iโve seen only have the option of cooking on low or high. If youโre going to buy just one slow cooker, this is the one that I recommend.
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Slow Cooker Beef and Cheddar Sandwiches
- Prep Time: 2 minutes
- Cook Time: 8 hours
- Total Time: 8 hours 2 minutes
- Yield: 6 servings 1x
Description
The easiest recipe to make ever. With only 4 ingredients total (beef, onion soup mix, cheddar and sandwich buns) you may be thinking that this recipe is just too easy to taste good. Well, you’re wrong ๐ The flavor is amazing and your family will be asking for seconds.
Ingredients
- 2 lbs beef chuck roast
- 1 package dry onion soup
- 2 cups water
- 1 1/2 cups shredded sharp cheddar
- 6 sandwich buns
Instructions
- Place beef in the slow cooker. Sprinkle the onion soup on top. Pour in the water. Cover and cook on low for 8-12 hours, or until beef is very tender.
- Remove beef and place on a cutting board. Shred. Return shredded meat to juices in the slow cooker.
- Under the broiler, toast the buns. Pile beef on top of the buns and then top with 1/4 cup of cheddar on each one. Place under the broiler for one more minute, until cheddar is melted.
- Serve and enjoy!
Notes
I used my 6 quart slow cooker for this recipe.
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You might have already answered this but would you put the CrockPot on High or Low ? I want to say High but I don’t know for sure because mine gets really hot on High.
I put it on low for this recipe
I am going to try this tomorrow. It sounds delicous! Do you think that searing it before putting in crock pot is necessary?
Not necessary but just makes it taste better ๐
Hi, I just moved to Spain and crock pots are hard to find. Any advice on how to make this (and your other recipies) using the oven or stove top?
you can definitely use a dutch oven in the oven and just cook on a low temperature like 250 degrees.
How long would you cook this in a regular oven?
Put all ingredients in a heavy duty pot with a tight fitting lid and cook for 4-5 hours at 300 degrees
Oh my goodness this looks amazing! I’d be in my glories if I had this for lunch right now ๐
Hi Karen,
First time visitor here. But I already fell in love with what you have here!
Thank you for sharing this recipe. How creative!. It is so delicious. I love sandwiches . I’m going to try it now Thanks for sharing it with us ?
Jennifer
These look perfect for feeding a hungry crowd! With March Madness coming up, I’m sure this will be a huge hit!
oh good idea on the March Madness!
These look just divine! My husband would think he was in heaven….beef and cheese!
I know right?!