Slow Cooker Beef Tips and Gravy (Recipe 12 of 150)

It hasn't been a great week of recipes. I did cook more than on Monday, but those recipes were not worthy. In fact, they were down right icky. Maybe it was because I wasn't feel great. Or maybe they were just icky recipes. Either way, they weren't worth sharing. 

This recipe is a standard slow cooker recipe. Beef, onions and a sauce. How hard could it be? 

I don't dust my meat in flour for stews like this. First, the GF BFF was coming over, and flour is not in her GF world. Plus, it's not really necessary. I tend to cornstarch it up later if I want a thicker gravy. 

I also swapped out the soy for Tamari. Again, GF eater tonight. You really can't tell the difference with that. 

Otherwise, this recipe was made as it's written. Good, hearty meal for a cold winter's day. 

Slow Cooker Beef Tips and Gravy
Recipe from Thesouthernladycooks.com

Serves 6

• 1 1/2 pounds stew meat or sirloin tips
• 1 medium onion cut in rings
• 3 to 4 tablespoons olive oil or cooking oil
• 1/2 c all-purpose flour
• 1/2 tsp salt
• 1 tsp garlic powder
• 1/2 tsp black pepper
• 2 10.5 ounce cans beef broth
• 1 package onion soup mix
• 1/2 c water
• 1 tsp soy sauce
• 1 tsp Worcestershire sauce
• 1 T cornstarch optional

Heat oil in skillet and brown onions. Remove onions and put in crock pot. In a bowl whisk together the flour, salt, garlic powder and black pepper. Dredge the meat in the flour mixture and cook in skillet where you browned the onions until browned.

Add meat to crock pot. If you have flour left in the bowl from dredging the meat leave it in the bowl and add the 2 cans of beef broth, 1 package of onion soup mix, 1/2 cup water, soy sauce, Worcestershire sauce and whisk all together. Pour over meat and onions in the crock pot

Cook on low for 6 to 7 hours or high for 4 to 5 hours. If you want the gravy to be thicker, remove a 1/2 cup gravy and whisk in 1 tablespoon cornstarch and add back to the crock pot. Cook on high for 10 to 15 minutes longer. Makes about 8 servings.