Slim & Healthy Easy Slow Cooker Company Beef
Lean stewing beef and mushrooms cooked in slow cooker until tender. This is a great dinner for the meat lovers in your home. It’s easy enough for a weeknight and tasty enough for company.
I’m not a huge steak fan, but I love hearty beef vegetable soups, stews and braised dishes, like this slow cooker beef and mushrooms. And a simple meat and potatoes meal always pleases my mid-western raised husband.
This recipe is loosely based on one from one of my most recent cookbook purchases, Fix-It and Forget-It Lightly: 600 Healthy Low-Fat Recipes for Your Slow Cooker
, by Phyllis Pellman Good. I made several changes, including substituting fresh mushrooms for jarred, but kept the fat-free cream of mushroom soup and dry onion soup mix.
The recipe instructs you to just combine everything together in the slow cooker and let it cook on low for 5 to 6 hours, which would be fine when you are really pressed for time. But, I took a few extra minutes to season the beef with salt and pepper and then brown it in a skillet and also cooked the mushrooms, in two batches, before tossing everything into the cooker.
(I’m not sure who taught me the correct way to saute mushrooms; Was it Jacques Pepin or Julia Child? What a revelation it has been to cook mushrooms without overcrowding the pan. They cook up golden and delicious.)
Serve over noodles, rice, pasta or mashed potatoes. And don’t forget a green vegetable like broccoli or green beans 
Simple home cooking that’s satisfying and just plain good. Enjoy!
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