Ingredients

  • 3 1/2 lbs boneless beef roast (chuck roast is perfect)
  • 1 medium onion, peeled and chopped
  • 1 cup ketchup
  • 1/2 cup chili sauce
  • 1/3 cup brown sugar
  • 2 tablespoons spicy brown mustard
  • 2 tablespoons Heinz 57 steak sauce (or your favorite hot sauce)
  • 1 tablespoon dried garlic or 2 tablespoons fresh garlic
  • 1 tablespoon cajun spices (or your favorite season salt)
  • 1/2 teaspoon black pepper
  • 1 tablespoon canola oil or 1 tablespoon olive oil

Method

  • Trim beef to remove fat; cut meat into large cubes about 2" x 2" (save fat & meat trimmings for latter).
  • Coat the bottom of a large crock-pot cooker with a little olive or canola oil to prevent sticking, then place meat in the cooker with the onion, Cajun spice, and garlic.
  • Mix together remaining ingredients (sauce) and pour over meat.
  • Cover and cook on high for 4 to 5 hours, or until meat shreds easily - stir once or twice during cooking if you can.
  • Remove the meat & onion from cooker with a slotted spoon and shred the meat with a potato masher or 2 forks, then pour about 1/2 cup of the sauce over the meat - serve with the remaining sauce on the side for those people that would like more sauce (or just save the extra sauce for other uses latter).
  • If you not afraid of a few extra calories, boil the trimmed off meat & fat with a cup of water in the microwave (or on the stove) and then add just the "liquid" from that to the crock-pot. I like to trim the fat off the meat because not everyone likes fat in their sandwich, but the fat is full of flavor :).