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Slow Cooker Beef Tips are tender beef slices, mixed with chopped mushrooms and onion mix slow cooked to perfection! Easy weeknight meal!
Slow cooker meals are just what we need this school year! Try my favorite slow cooker meals like Slow Cooker Mississippi Pork Roast (To Die For), Slow Cooker Chicken Pot Pie or Slow Cooer General Tso’s Chicken for an easy dinner meal!
Slow Cooker Beef Tips
School is about to start and I am getting all things prepared for mornings of waking up early, rushing boys off to school then taking care of my little girls during the day.
Throughout the day I am going, going, going. I know that I need to be ready for dinner when everyone comes home.
Making this easy slow cooker beef tip recipe is a breeze. It is so simple to prepare and the slow cooker does the work!
This is a tried and true recipe that everyone loves and is excited for! Add this Slow Cooker Beef Tips recipe to your weekly meal plan and see how easy and delicious it is!
How to make Beef Tips
- Sear: In a large skillet over medium high heat add the olive oil. Salt and pepper the stew meat and add in batches to sear on both sides until brown, but do not cook throughout.
- Add: Once the stew meat is cooked add it to the slow cooker.
- Slow cooker: Add the beef broth, dry onion soup mix, onions, mushroom, and garlic. Cook on low for 5-6 hours or high 3-4 hours.
- Cornstarch: 30 minutes before it is done cooking, mix together in a small bowl the water and cornstarch. Stir it into the slow cooker and allow it to thicken.
- Serve: Over pasta or mashed potatoes.
What to serve with Beef Tips
We usually prefer potatoes under our beef tips to make this a complete meal. You can serve these beef tips with potatoes, noodles or even rice.
To make this into a great family meal add in some vegetables like green beans, roasted cauliflower or carrots to bring in some color and extra flavor.
These have been our favorite family potatoes.
- Dad’s Famous Mashed Potatoes
- Parmesan Garlic Roasted Potatoes
- Garlic Herb Mashed Potatoes
- Instant Pot Mashed Potatoes
Need more steak meals to add to your menu?! Try these!
- Creamy Garlic Steak Bites with Mushrooms
- Garlic Butter Herb Steak Bites with Potatoes
- Skillet Salisbury Steak
- Garlic Butter herb Steak and Mushrooms
- Brown Sugar Garlic Flank Steak
Slow Cooker Beef Tips
Ingredients
- 2 Tbsp olive oil
- 3 pounds stew meat
- salt and pepper
- 3 cups beef broth
- 1 package dry onion soup mix
- 1 Tbsp Worcestershire sauce
- 1 small onion diced
- 2 cups mushrooms sliced
- 3 garlic cloves minced
- 1/4 cup water
- 3 Tbsp cornstarch
Instructions
- In a large skillet over medium high heat add the olive oil. Salt and pepper the stew meat and add in batches to sear on both sides until brown, but do not cook throughtout. Add the stew meat to the slow cooker.
- Add the beef broth, dry onion soup mix, Worcestershire sauce, onions, mushroom, and garlic. Cook on low for 5-6 hours or high 3-4 hours.
- 30 minutes before it is done cooking, mix together in a small bowl the water and cornstarch. Stir it into the slow cooker and allow it to thicken.
- Serve over pasta or mashed potatoes.
Nutrition
Serves: 6
All nutritional information is based on third party calculations and is only an estimate. Each recipe and nutritional value will vary depending on the brands you use, measuring methods and portion sizes per household.
Great recipe. I did leave out the dry onion soup – just way to much sodium for me. But I added more diced onions and 1 tablespoon Mrs. Dash Original Seasoning.. With that change it was fantastic.
I can only assume that the worcheshire sauce goes in with the other ingredients. I added it then…making it tonight so in about 30 minutes I will see if I get a thumbs up from my kiddo or not to make again…
Yes she forgot that ingredient in her instructions. Not a big deal.
Just a quick question….what kind of mushrooms are used in this recipe??
I use raw mushrooms and cut them up. You can use a can of mushrooms but their flavoring and texture is a lot different and usually smaller.
What kind of fresh or raw mushrooms?? White or portabellas??
They look to be your standard button mushrooms in the picture, but any mushroom will do for a recipe as simple as beef tips.
Could this be made in the Instant Pot? Sounds yummy!
I made ours in our instapot, turned out great, a little more watery than I expected. Maybe more cornstarch?
How long did you cook it?
11 min pressure? I worry that’s to long for the mushrooms…
The instructions don’t include the Worcestershire sauce; don’t forget to add it to the crockpot.
Is there another cut of beef you could recommend? My husband has a “thing” about stewing beef.
No problem. I totally understand. You can use any type of steak that he prefers. Simply cut into chunks.
Whether it’s this recipe, beef stew, chili, stroganoff or other, I tend to cube round steak.
We are the same way about stew met. I use either a Chuck roast or sirloin steak cut up.
I used tenderloin cut into pieces, delicious!
If don’t have dry onion soup can use other replace
Stir together onion flakes, beef bouillon granules, onion powder, parsley flakes, celery seed, paprika, and black pepper in a bowl.
This was excellent. I didn’t add the mushrooms.
My family are not mushroom eaters at all. What can be a substitute for them in any dish.
You can just leave them out for this recipe. If you would like to substitute you can try carrots, onions or bell peppers but it will be a little more crunchy instead of a tender texture.
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Recipe was very bland. I added extra garlic, herbs de province, pepper ,salt, etc but still was bland. Will add hearty burgandy wine, carrots and pearl onions next time I make it.
The wine certainly can’t hurt.
I’m a close follower of the Justin Wilson philosophy that one should “taste” the wine every few minutes to insure it remains of finest quality during the cooking process.
I recommend having a back up bottle on hand, in case of an emergency.
I agree, you most definitely need the back-up bottle for emergency!!
I’ve cut up onions red ( half of a left over one I used for salsa tonight) and yellow – garlic- carrots – celery- mushrooms – or…first thing In the morning ..heading to my favorite butcher …to buy . A chuck blade steak or two …I can cut it up in bigger chunks and the fat in the steak makes it juicy after cooking for hours….. I’ll post tomorrow night..see what my hubby and do think ..thank you
I just came across your recipe & it looks very similar to the one I just “created”, with a few exceptions. I threw in cream of mushroom soup, (love the flavor, can’t tolerate the texture), onions,
onion soup mix, onion gravy, garlic, thyme, salt, pepper, tomato paste, white wine (didn’t have red), Worcester sauce & plum jam -(found it in the pantry and thought, “Why not?”, lol). Wish I had found your site BEFORE I began cooking it! Have bookmarked & saved! Thanks so much for sharing your recipes! ??
Very tasty recipe, I didn’t have the Worcestershire sauce so I left it out, came out excellent!
Could you freeze the leftovers? Not sure because of the mushrooms.
Yes, this is a great freezer meal.
How do you make it thicker 3 Tablespoons didn’t do it ?
HMM! It may depend where you live but adding another tablespoon may help or letting it sit longer.
This recipe turned out fantasticI made this exactly as written and I would not change a thing! The seasoning was spot on. I served it over noodles with green beans, carrots and homemade biscuits! So good! Everyone loved it! ♥️😋👍🏼
This recipe turned out fantastic! I made this exactly as written and I would not change a thing! The seasoning was spot on. I served it over noodles with green beans, carrots and homemade biscuits! So good! Everyone loved it! ♥️😋👍🏼
I sauteed the mushrooms and onions in the pan after the beef. Than deglazed the pan with 1 cup red wine and reduced the beef broth to 2 cups. Added alot of flavor
This was amazing! so simple. My family loved it. Was asked to make again.
Delish! If I may, Stew Meat is third class mystery meat. At the least, a roast or tenderloin cut up adds heaps and layers of flavor and you don’t get that organ meat bite.
I love it
This is absolutely delicious, it is a family favorite in our home and super easy to make! Just a note, you left out when to add in the worcestershire sauce, I assumed it went in with everything else 😉 I absolutely love following you on instagram, I have tried several of your recipes, are all always a hit with our family. Thank you for sharing your deliciousness with us!!
What is green stuff in the picture?
It is parsley sprinkled on top of the beef tips.
Can l use beefy onion soup mix since I don’t have the onion soup mix?
This recipe was so good thank you. I added poblano peppers, added a little cayenne, thyme, and added more cornstarch. Came out perfect.
I made this on Sunday. I had to use 4 lbs. of beef stew so I added a can of Cream of Celery soup and 2 packs of brown gravy. Everyone loved it! This recipe is a keeper.
Anxious to try this, but because we have to watch daily carbohydrate count I am going to use xanthum gum to thicken instead of cornstarch. Looks so good !!
This is my 3rd time making this recipe. IT IS EXCELLENT, and my friends enjoy it. I will keep making it just for me and rare special occasions. Thank you so much.
If I don’t have cornstarch is there any substitution I can use? like flour maybe?
Yes, flour would be a great substitution.
Does anyone know what the cook setting/times would be if this was done in an instapot instead of a traditional slow cooker?