February 14th, 2010

This is a quick easy meal that you can just toss into the crockpot in the morning. It also is a great recipe for cheap cuts of steak such as round steak or london broil because the slow cooker ensures tender meat. In our area, round steak is a cheap cut that often goes on sale ‘buy one, get one’ so I stock up then which reduces my costs greatly for this recipe.

Ingredients

2 lbs Round steak sliced against the grain into strips and extra fat removed @$2.50
1 tbsp Garlic powder @$0.30
1 tbsp Onion powder @$0.30
1 small chopped onion @$0.25
3 tbsp Soy sauce @$0.30
1 can chicken or beef stock, whatever you have on hand
1 can diced tomatoes @$0.75 ( we buy this in bulk at a cost savings)
1 can diced tomatoes with green peppers @$1.00
Cornstarch as needed to thicken the sauce
Rice @$1.00

Optional Ingredients: Fresh green pepper if you are big on peppers. We are not so the one can of diced tomatoes with green peppers is more than enough for us. Mushrooms would also be a nice addition, however, we don’t like them at our house.

Time: Prep: 30 minutes. Cooking time: 6-8 hours

Serves: 4 and really not much more than that.

Cost: Around $5.90

Instructions

1. If you have time, quickly sear round steak in a hot pan with the onion, powdered garlic and powdered onion. Otherwise, everything can go right into the crockpot.

2.Transfer steak to slow cooker. Add in soy sauce, tomatoes and stock. Set to cook on low for 6 to 8 hours.

3.Thicken sauce with cornstarch if necessary at the end of cooking time (sometimes this recipe cooks down and thickens on its own just fine) and test meat for tenderness. If it’s tough, cook a little longer. If it never becomes tender, you may not have cut across the grain properly when slicing the meat.

4.Make Minute Rice in the microwave or long grain wild rice, whatever you have on hand and like. (Some cooks add the rice to the slow cooker, but not everyone in our home eats rice so we make it separately.)

5.Serve on top of a bed of rice.

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