Steak Tips Over Rice In The Crock Pot
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My “steak tips” over rice is a delicious slow cooker recipe cooked all day in the crock pot to create tender juicy meat for a flavorful dinner.
This is one of my husband’s favorite meals and it is shamefully easy and incredibly cheap. You see, my “steak tips” over gravy is nothing more than stew meat slow cooked all day in the crock pot. Stew meat is easy to find on clearance. I usually pick up a few trays of it every few weeks and freeze it that day for this meal. Sometimes I do this with a roast as well, cutting it up into smaller pieces similar to how stew meat is cut.
A Slow Cooker is invaluable when it comes to cooking inexpensive cuts of meat. Meat that normally would yield tough results becomes fall apart tender through this method of cooking. The important thing to note is that tough meat needs fat in order to become tender. This is why roasts cooked in water are tougher than those cooked in gravy. You only need one can, even if you are making an entire roast, as it melds with the meat juices as they cook out as well and produce plenty of liquid.
Ingredients You’ll Need to Make Steak Tips over Rice:
- stew meat
- beef gravy
- rice
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That’s it! This recipe is seriously so simple and hearty. It’s a total win!
How to Make Steak Tips over Rice:
Place “steak tips” in crock pot.
**If you have frozen meat you can just put the meat in the slow cooker and break them up a bit as they begin to cook.
Cover with one can of beef gravy.
**You don’t have to use beef gravy. You can use a packet of brown gravy mix, prepared according to package directions, and that will be fine, too. If you would like a recipe for steak with homemade gravy there is one right here.
Cook that on low all day for seven to eight hours or on high for three to four. That is the general cooking time for all crock pot meals in case you wanted to know 🙂
Here’s what the completed “steak tips” will look like!
Prepare rice according to package directions and spoon out steak tips and gravy to serve!
Enjoy a delicious, hearty, and most importantly, EASY, meal!
Ingredients
- 1 Package Stew Meat
- 1 Can Beef Gravy
- Rice prepared according to package directions
Instructions
- Place stew meat in slow cooker, cover with beef gravy. Cook on low, 7-8 hours or on high 3-4 hours. Serve over hot rice.
“When the grass looks greener on the other side, its time to fertilize your own lawn”
Special thanks to my reader and Facebook friend, Ticha for this quote!
What a sweet story, Christy! I can identify with you! It felt like Christmas when we went to “the big city” of Atlanta, and got to have a Krispy Kreme doughnut once a year! They melted in our mouths, and I couldn’t imagine anything that could taste any better. When I was pregnant, my sweet husband drove a half hour in the middle of the night to satisfy my craving for Krispy Kreme!
We do this often over rice. But for a change, at the end of cooking I add in about 4 ounces of garlic chive cream cheese and stir gently until it melts into the gravy and serve over egg noodles. Our own special stroganoff!
Christy, You will never know how much the stories of your childhood memories and your gratefulness means. Thank you for sharing your heart.
I can’t wait to try beef tips using your recipe. For years, I have made mine using one can of french onion soup and one can of golden mushroom soup combined (undiluted) and poured over the beef stew meat in the crockpot. It is really, really yummy! And, if you really like mushrooms, you can add mushrooms to taste, either fresh or canned.
I have made this dish for years in the crock pot just like you but I always used a can of cream of mushroom soup! Now I have a choice and will make it with the can of beef gravy to see which one my Honey likes the best! After 40 years of marriage, he is usually happy with what I put in front of him!
Now, about the post that went this recipe! What great memories it brought back of my family’s trip from Waco, TX to Santa Ana, CA when I was 8 years old. So much like your story, ice chest full of food, 3 kids (me, my sister and my cousin) This was just us girls (my mother and my aunt) as Daddy took his vacations during hunting season. We went to visit our Aunts and Uncles that lived in exotic Caifornia. The most wonderful trip and I remember things like you do. My Uncle was mowing the back yard, and mowed my initials into it. Boy he was my favorite uncle from them on! We did Disneyland, Knotts berry farm, Pacific Ocean Park and even drove all the way up Hwy 1 to Hearst Castle. Easing out of that old green metal Coleman cooler was second nature after that trip. Just thinking of it today brings a tear to my eye because all of the moms and aunts and uncles are gone on before us. I think they have cold fried chicken in heaven, Christy. What about you!!
Loved your story, too! Our family traveled that way when I was growing up, and to this day, we still travel with a cooler and food with our kids! Even when we’re staying in a motel/hotel, we often have our own breakfasts/lunches with us! Even though we are blessed to be able to eat in a restaurant, taking food saves money for other things, as well as allows us to eat more healthily when we travel–or at least not totally overeat! LOL!
I make this using two or three packages dry beef gravy mix, one package ranch dressing and couple cups water. Before serving you can add more water and still have plenty of flavor. I also fix with noodles. It is quite tasty.
Christy, Thanks for sharing such a wonderful story, one that brought several different emotions including thankfullness, laughter, and tears. I love your stories. Keep it up. I know you are super busy and it amazes me that you can handle all these tasks. But as my mama would say, “God bless you”.
What a great story – it is so good to have a grateful heart and something we as parents really need to teach our children. Thanks so much for sharing.