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Slow Cooker Beef Tips and Gravy

Learn how to make Slow Cooker Beef Tips and Gravy - the perfect comfort food to serve over mashed potatoes, with vegetables, egg noodles, and more!
Course Main Course
Cuisine American
Keyword beef cubes slow cooker, beef tips and gravy crockpot, crockpot beef tips and gravy, slow cooker beef tips and gravy
Prep Time 20 minutes
Cook Time 5 hours
Total Time 5 hours 20 minutes
Servings 6
Calories 262kcal

Ingredients

Beef Tips

  • pounds Beef round Roast cut into chunks
  • 1 teaspoon kosher salt
  • ½ teaspoon black pepper freshly cracked
  • 1 tablespoon unsalted butter
  • 1 yellow onion sliced (about 1 cup)
  • 5-6 cloves garlic peeled
  • 1 sprig fresh thyme or 1 teaspoon dried thyme

Gravy

  • ½ tablespoon unsalted butter
  • 8 ounces white mushrooms sliced
  • 1 pinch salt
  • cups water
  • ½ tablespoon beef base I use Better Than Bouillon
  • ½ cup red wine
  • 1 tablespoon cornstarch

Instructions

  • Season beef roast with salt and pepper. Melt 1 Tbsp. unsalted butter in a skillet over medium-high heat, then add the beef. Allow it to sear for 4 minutes on each side to give it a caramelized coating. Once seared, add the beef tips to your slow cooker. Top with sliced yellow onion, peeled whole garlic cloves, and thyme.
    1½ pounds Beef round Roast cut into chunks, ½ teaspoon black pepper, 1 tablespoon unsalted butter, 1 yellow onion, 5-6 cloves garlic, 1 sprig fresh thyme, 1 teaspoon kosher salt
    Beef tips, onions, garlic, and thyme in slow cooker
  • Reduce the heat of the skillet to medium and melt ½ tablespoon unsalted butter. Add sliced mushrooms with a pinch of salt and stir to coat with the butter. Saute for 5 minutes, until the mushrooms are soft. Stir occasionally, scraping up the brown bits from the bottom of the pan. Add water and beef base to the skillet and stir to combine. Then, add the contents of the skillet to the slow cooker with your beef tips.
    ½ tablespoon unsalted butter, 8 ounces white mushrooms, 1 pinch salt, 1½ cups water, ½ tablespoon beef base
    Adding the cooked mushrooms to the slow cooker
  • Cover your crockpot and cook on low for 5 hours, or on high for 2½ hours, until the beef is fork-tender. If you have more time, you can cook for 6 hours for even greater flavor.
    Stirring the beef tips and gravy in the slow cooker
  • Once the beef tips are done cooking, combine red wine with cornstarch and add it to the slow cooker. Turn heat up to high and cook for 20 minutes to thicken the gravy. Alternatively, cook gravy in a pan (see note 3).
    ½ cup red wine, 1 tablespoon cornstarch
    Slow cooker beef tips and gravy, ready to serve and enjoy!

Notes

  • You want a nice caramelized coat on the beef from searing, so make sure to properly sear for enough time to brown the meat.
  • 5 hours on low or 2 and a half hours on high should be enough time to tenderize the beef, but if you find you'd like it more tender, you can leave it for longer.
  • Alternately, you can add the gravy to a skillet over medium heat and add the cornstarch/red wine mixture to the gravy and heat until thickened, which will only take a minute or two.
  • I recommend using a beef base/water combination in this recipe. You can find beef base in the soup aisle of your grocery store. Beef base will give the gravy a deep rich flavor, however, you can also substitute 1 and a half cups beef stock in place of the water/beef base combination. Be sure to use beef stock (not broth) for maximum flavor results.

Nutrition

Calories: 262kcal | Carbohydrates: 5g | Protein: 32g | Fat: 11g | Saturated Fat: 4g | Cholesterol: 95mg | Sodium: 541mg | Potassium: 408mg | Sugar: 1g | Vitamin A: 90IU | Vitamin C: 3.2mg | Calcium: 17mg | Iron: 3mg