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.
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I, too, had tears. Precious memories oh how sweet. We appreciated those things didn’t we?
I remember going to Daytona as a child on vacation with my parents and my older sister and younger brother. Did you ever ride laying up in the back window of the car?? We would take turns. . . one would sleep in the back window, one in the seat and one in the floorboard. Never a thought of a seat belt and safety, but it was so much fun to watch the traffic from that back window. We always stayed at these little Mom and Pop motels. That trip my Mama took her electric frying pan and cooked corn beef hash out of the can. The whole family ate it on crackers for lunch and it was sooooo good. I can still remember that wonderful taste. Never had any since then that was that good. We didn’t have much money, but we went on vacation every year and were always gone the whole week. . . saw lots of things, though I realize now that we didn’t have a lot of money to spend. But oh my, we had so much love and so many memories. My parents have both been gone for a long time now. . .but we will always cherish our memories.
Oh I remember sleeping in the back window!! There were 4 of us, so one would sleep in the back, 2 on the seat and one on the floorboard! Sometimes we would get up and drive awhile and then stop at a rest stop(they were different back then as well) and eat cold cereal for breakfast. We never got cold cereal unless we were going on a trip. It was REALLY special if Mom bought the packages of individual boxes of cereal! We always brought the cooler along. We would often have sandwiches and chips, another luxery.
First of all, what a delicious and easy recipe. Can’t wait to try it.
Your story was fantastic, really, kids today have no idea how much they have and not until they are older will they appreciate it. Fact is, the old days, they were very memorable. I miss my parents and all they did for me.
I tried this recipe myself and it was Scrump-de-delish! We just about licked our plates clean! 😀 Thanks so much!
I can’t believe something that looks so yummy so so easy!!!! Think I can add some onion to it and it won’t disintegrate? This sounds like the perfect meal for dinner one night next week!
Oh — and WELCOME to Southern Plate, Deborah!!!
So true…my parents drove all day and night to our vacation destinations – usually Daytona or Myrtle Beach – to save the money we’d spend on a motel room on the way. Mom would pack a picnic to eat on the way. They didn’t want to spend money on a kitchenette, so we’d have lunches of pimiento cheese and crackers and green grapes, or bologna sandwiches and apples my daddy sliced with his pocketknife. Our big meal out would be lunch at a drugstore restaurant!
I’ve bought the ingredients, and was impressed because there were only two ingredients. Well, three, if you count the rice. I’m not much of a cook. So can you please tell me how much of the beef tips you put in the crock pot? I can’t enlarge your photo, so can’t see how much meat you have for your one can of gravy. If you would, please e-mail me and let me know. I’ve got the meat in the refrigerator just waiting for you to tell me how much to use.
I just discovered your blog last week, and I’ve probably spent 2-3 hours just reading through old posts and looking through your recipes. I’m a southern girl, born and bred (Georgia), and can’t wait to try your recipes. Like I said, I’m not much of a cook. I detest cooking. But your recipes look great, and I can’t wait to try them.
Thanks for the stories – they make me feel like I’m with you. You have such a good way of telling a story. You’re my new friend.