Easy Slow Cooker Braised Beef with Onions & Mushrooms
If you can’t cook, have no time to cook or are just too tired to cook then this Easy Slow Cooker Braised Beef with Onions & Mushrooms recipe is for you! Restaurant quality, budget friendly food for mid-week or a special occasion!
Servings 3 people
Equipment
- 3.5 L slow cooker
- Chopping Board
- cook's knife
- Measuring spoons
- Digital scales
Ingredients
- 4 red or brown onions quartered (medium sized)
- 2 bay leaves
- 400 g stewing steak
- 2 beef stock cubes good quality
- 4 garlic cloves crushed with side of knife and sliced
- 1 tbsp Worcestershire Sauce
- 250 g chestnut mushrooms halved
- 15 g butter diced
- Sea salt and freshly ground pepper
Instructions
- Grease the sides of a slow cooker pot with a little olive oil (not vital but stops mushrooms sticking) and then place onions, bay leaves, stewing steaks, salt, pepper, garlic, stock cubes (one on each steak), Worcestershire Sauce, mushrooms and knobs of butter into a slow cooker in this order.
- Cook on high for 4 hours or low for 8 hours or until a fork will easily glide through the steak.
- Once tender serve the steaks whole (if serving 2) or break up and serve with onions, mushrooms and cooking juices. Serve with mashed potatoes/creamy polenta and vegetables.
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Notes
If making for a special occasion you could swap the onions for shallots.