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
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!
| Easy Slow Cooker Company Beef & Mushrooms |
- 2 teaspoons olive oil
- 2 pounds lean stewing beef, cubed
- 10 ounces fresh mushrooms sliced
- 1 can (10.75 ounces) fat-free, low sodium cream of mushroom soup
- 1/2 cup dry red wine
- 1 envelope dry onion soup mix
- Heat oil in a nonstick skillet over medium heat.
- Season the beef with salt and pepper and then brown it in the skillet, cooking it in 2 to 3 batches so you don’t crowd the pan. (Overcrowding the pan will cause the beef to steam instead of brown.)
- Place the beef in a 4-quart slow cooker.
- Brown the mushrooms, in the same skillet, again cooking them in 2 batches so they aren’t crowded in the pan, and add them to the slow cooker.
- Add the red wine to the skillet and stir up any browned bits. Stir in the mushroom soup and onion soup mix until the mixture is blended, and then add to the slow cooker.
- Give everything a stir to combine.
- Cover and cook on low for 5 to 6 hours.
Nutritional Estimates Per Serving (1/8th of recipe): 225 calories, 9 g fat, 5 g carbs, 1 g fiber, 27 g protein
If time is short, skip the browning and just combine everything in the slow cooker, cover and cook on low for the recommended time.
More Weight Watchers Friendly Slow Cooker Beef Recipes from the Blogs
Lightened Up Beef Stroganoff from Recipe Girl
Slow Cooker BBQ Beef Sandwiches from Culinary Covers
Slow Cooker Pepper Steak from the Queen of Points
