Yummy Slow Cooker Beef Casserole
Next to soup, casseroles are a fantastic meal to have during winter. Our Slow Cooker Beef Casserole is super easy to make in your slow cooker but adaptable to cook in the oven if needed.
Equipment
- Slow Cooker or All-In-One Cooker
Ingredients
- 30 g Butter
- 750 g Chuck Steak
- 1 Large Onion
- 2 Sticks Celery
- 125 g Bacon
- 3 tbsp Plain Flour
- 2 cups Water
- 3 tbsp Tomato Paste
- ¼ tsp Mixed Herbs
- 1 tsp Sugar
- 1 tsp Worcestershire Sauce
- 2 Garlic Cloves
- 200 g White Mushrooms
- 1 tsp Salt
- ½ tsp Pepper
Instructions
- For the oven method, refer to the notes.
- Cut up your meat into 2 cm cubes, removing most of the chunky fat pieces. Dice up, onion, garlic, celery and bacon (if you are using bacon strips). Thinly slice mushrooms.
- Set an all-in-one cooker to the saute setting or use a frypan. Add butter and melt. Add onion, garlic, celery. Stir for a minute and then add mushroom and continue to saute until mushrooms are tender. Then turn off.
- Add flour to a zip lock or freezer bag, add diced meat and coat the meat in the flour. Add the bacon and the meat, along with the remaining flour to the sauteed ingredients in your slow cooker.
- Add water, tomato paste, mixed herbs, sugar, worcestershire sauce, salt and pepper to a small bowl and combine well. Pour over the ingredients in your slow cooker.
- Put on the lid and set to the low slow cook setting and cook for 6 hours.
Notes
Oven Method
- Brown your meat in a frypan in batches, remove and add the onion, celery, garlic, and sliced mushrooms, saute until the mushrooms are tender.
- Add the flour and cook for a minute, then gradually add the water while stirring until it thickens.
- Add the tomato paste, Worcestershire sauce, mixed herbs, sugar, salt, and pepper and combine.
- Place your meat into a crockpot or other ovenproof dish that has a lid. Add mixture from the frypan over the meat, stir and place in a preheated oven of 160°C (fan-forced) for 1 1/2 hours or until the meat is tender.
