Steak Tips Over Rice In The Crock Pot
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. Normally I use a tray half this size but I made a little extra today. Sometimes I do this with a roast as well, cutting it up into smaller pieces similar to how stew meat is cut.
Alright, lets get to cooking.
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.
Place “steak tips” in crock pot and cover with one can of beef gravy. I often pop these suckers in frozen and just break them up a bit as they thaw and begin to cook. 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 :).
Prepare rice according to package directions and spoon out steak tips and gravy to serve!
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!
You are an excellent story-teller Christy. I love taking walks down your “memory lane”. 🙂 It always makes me think of something from my own life.
And the “Grass is greener” quote – that is too funny because we were saying almost the same thing the other day. LOL!
I think this recipe will make “one Texan” very satisfied!!!
Loved the story…
Frankie
Awe Christy, you went and made me cry. I lost my daddy when I was 15 yrs old and my momma got very,very depressed so I pretty much lost both my parent at the young age of 15 we never had a vacation I didn’t know it then but daddy was dieing of cancer since I was 10 or so. To this day I have never seen the ocean I’m now 43 but I’m thankful for all my parents gave up so we could have them small (life time) special treats.
Thanks for the great memories
Mellany
Reading this made me smile as the memories flooded. I remember one vacation where my parents took us to Colorado and Wyoming. We stayed at Estes Park and I had potato donuts and dill pickle ice cream. I had not thought about that in years. Thank you for bringing back the memories 🙂
Are you sure you aren’t my long lost sister? This story described my family exacting! Even the mattress in the back of the truck! Maybe its because I grew up in Limestone Co. too?! I’m so glad I’ve found this blog. Its like a walk down memory lane.
Hey Christy…
My Daddy loved beef tips over rice…. I know he would have really enjoyed this recipe. Truth is…. Daddy was a Meat and Potatoes kind of guy. He never had much rice growing up…. born in 1917,moved to California from the East Coast as a child…. but when he was in the Army… he was stationed in Arkansas and that is where he first experienced Beans over rice!! He loved that dish until the day he passed away.
Thanks for this recipe Christy… as always…
Blessings to you and your family.
Linda in Louisiana 🙂
Enjoyed the recipe, and loved the story! We also had a camper on our pickup truck when I was young. We took many a glorious vacation and saw wonderful things. There was a refrigerator in it, a two burner stove, and cabinets. We ate practically every meal in there, and never really thought much about it . . that’s just the way it was. I remember helping Mom fix Dad’s “topless” sandwiches and crawling through the window to take them to him, along with some pickles of course LOL. He would one time a trip, usually stop at a Stucky’s, where we were allowed to get a pecan roll!!! YUM!!! What a treat, and still my favorite candy! The first time I stayed in a motel, was on my honeymoon — when I was 18 years old. He thought it wasn’t a very nice place, but I loved everything about it!!! It’s true, we spoil our kids, but so happy that we can. Thanks for the wonderful memories.