WW Recipe of the Day: Slow Cooker Beef & Mushrooms
Lean stewing beef and mushrooms cooked in slow cooker until tender. This lightened up beef and mushrooms 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 cooked beef and mushrooms.
And a simple meat and potatoes meal always pleases my mid-western raised husband. So everyone is happy, an important consideration when trying to eat better and lose weight without having to cook separate meals.
How Many Calories and WW Points in this Lightened Up Beef with Mushrooms?
It is possible to eat hearty satisfying foods and lose weight. Each serving (about 1 cup) of this easy and delicious lightened up easy slow cooker beef and mushrooms dish has just 225 calories and:
5 *SmartPoints (Green plan)
5 *SmartPoints (Blue plan)
5 *SmartPoints (Purple plan)
5 *PointsPlus (Old plan)
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Recipe Notes
This recipe is loosely adapted from one of my most recent cookbook purchases, Fix-It and Forget-It Lightly Revised and Updated: 600 Healthy, Low-Fat Recipes for Your Slow Cooker (affiliate link), 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.
The recipe includes ½ cup dry red wine. Substitute beef broth if you prefer.
Serving Suggestions
Serve over noodles, rice, pasta, mashed potatoes or cauliflower rice or zoodles for the carb-conscious.
And don't forget a green vegetable, like broccoli or green beans, to accompany your beef and mushrooms 🙂
This lightened up slow cooked beef and mushrooms is simple home cooking that's satisfying and just plain good. Enjoy!
Are You Ready To Slow Cook Yourself Slim?
If you like this easy slow cooker beef with mushrooms, be sure to check out my other Weight Watchers friendly slow cooker recipes including Slow Cooker Balsamic Beef, Mom's Slow Cooker Roast Beef, Crock Pot Beef with Mushroom Sauce, Slow Cooker Italian Beef & Lentil Soup and Slow Cooker Thai Beef
If you've made this Lighter Beef + Mushrooms dinner, please give the recipe a star rating below and leave a comment letting me know how you liked it. And stay in touch on Pinterest, Facebook, Instagram and Twitter for the latest updates.
Easy Slow Cooker Beef and Mushrooms Recipe
Ingredients
- 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
- ½ cup dry red wine
- 1 envelope dry onion soup mix
Instructions
- Ideal slow cooker size: a 4-Quart.
- 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 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 6 to 8 hours, or until fork-tender.
Equipment
Recipe Notes
Source: Fix-It and Forget-It Lightly Revised and Updated: 600 Healthy, Low-Fat Recipes for Your Slow Cooker (affiliate link) by Phyllis Pellman Good
*Points® calculated by WW. *PointsPlus® and SmartPoints® calculated by Simple Nourished Living; Not endorsed by Weight Watchers International, Inc. All recipe ingredients except optional items included in determining nutritional estimates. SmartPoints® values calculated WITHOUT each plan's ZeroPoint Foods (Green plan, Blue plan, Purple plan) using the WW Recipe Builder.
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Barb
This was delicious! I cut the stewing beef a bit because it comes in huge chunks, and everything was so good. I served it over brown rice. The sauce served on the rice was so good as well. How easy was that! Thank you for this. I will be making it regularly.
Bernice P
This sounds wonderful... can white wine be used in place of the red wine? Thank you.
Bernice P
Angela
How much is 1/6 of a serving size.
Martha McKinnon
About 1 cup
Maxine
I made the Slow Cooker Beef & Mushrooms today.......loved it! I served it with Egg Noodles but it would be awesome with mashed potatoes as well. I am looking for more WW Friendly Recipes for additional variety -- I will definitely make this again. I thought it had the perfect amount of gravy.......but one person in my family wished there was more gravy (since it was so good)......so the next time I make it, I may attempt increasing or doubling the gravy portion of the recipe to see what happens (although that will make it slightly higher in WW Points). Thanks for the recipe!
Gweneva Lovett
I am surprise at the amount of food that a person can eat on this new freestyle point system. This is really a breakthrough and an accomplishment for Weight Watchers. I am not quite sure how the new freestyle plan works. It seems like a lot of food to consume and yet the smartpoints are very low. How does one lose the weight? I will give this new freestyle program further thought. Thank you.
Angela Mielke
I have this in my crockpot and it smells amazing, but what cut of meat did you use? I bought top round which is pretty lean and I used oil spray instead of the olive oil and I am still coming out to 8 smart points a serving using the WW recipe builder.
I will note that I used Pacific brand cream of shrooms soup, but that is only 1 SP higher for that ingredient, so it shouldn’t make the whole recipe 3 points higher.
I may see about dividing mine into 8 servings instead of 6, but I just wanted to clarify. I chose this recipe since it said just 5 points.
Martha McKinnon
Hi Angela, I used beef round as well. Did you choose Uncooked beef round in the Recipe Builder? If you mistakenly enter 2 pounds of cooked beef the points will be higher since the beef shrinks while cooking. That's the only difference I can think of. Hope this helps. ~Martha
Angela Mielke
Nope, I used 2 lbs I’d beef round raw which which is 34 points before adding other ingredients. That alone is 6 points per serving without anything else.
SusieMA
I made this for our supper this morning before I went to church...by the time we got home the house smelled divine! I let it cook the 8 hours on low and boy howdy was it tasty. MDH said to keep this recipe. I served it over brown rice along with a big green salad-it was a great meal. Entering it into WW recipe builder I got 6 points on my Green plan. (did not include the rice) I used a boneless arm roast, cutting it up myself for the small chunks of beef & trimming off all visible fat from the meat. This is going in to my WW Recipe Notebook for future delightful dinning. Thanks so much!
Martha McKinnon
So Glad you liked it! ~Martha
Joyce
This meal was delish!!! Meat was sooo tender. The sauce was delicious!! My husband rated this an A+ dinner!!! Will definitely make it again!!!
Thank you Martha for ALL your tasty recipes you share with us!!!
Pamela
When I click on the link to take me to my personal points it brings up a breakfast casserole
Martha McKinnon
Hi Pamela, I've corrected the link! ~Martha