Slow-Cooked Beef Loin Tri-Tip Roast

A 2.24-pound beauty of a roast. I had read other recipes for cooking a roast in slow cooker, none of which sounded like my goal recipe. So here it is a new take on a slow cooking roast recipe. The roast is a 2.24-pound beef loin tri-tip seasoned roast. This one had very little fat.

• Preparation Time: 10 mins
• Cooking Time: 4 hr
• Total Time: 4 hr 10 mins
• Calories: 430 Calories

Ingredients

• ½ cup water
• 1 clove garlic, minced
• 1 beef bouillon cube
• 2 tablespoons olive oil, or as needed, divided
• 1 yellow onion, halved and sliced
• 2 ¼ pounds seasoned beef loin tri-tip roast
• 1 pinch adobo seasoning (such as Goya®), or more to taste

Recipe Instructions

Step 1

Coat the inside of a slow cooker with about 1 tablespoon olive oil.

Step 2

Coat the inside of a skillet with about 1 tablespoon olive oil and heat over medium-high heat. Cook roast in the hot oil until browned, about 5 minutes per side. Cook and stir onion in the hot oil during the last 5 minutes of browning the roast. Transfer roast to the slow cooker, reserving onion in the skillet.

Step 3

Pour water over onion; crumble bouillon cube into water. Add garlic and adobo seasoning to onion mixture; cook and stir until onion is tender, about 5 minutes. Pour mixture over roast.

Step 4

Cook on High until meat is cooked through and tender, about 4 hours.