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If you need a simple recipe that everyone is sure to love, try this Crockpot Beef Tips Recipe. The beef is so tender and the gravy is good on everything.
Sometimes you just need an easy crock pot recipe. One of those recipes where you can just throw it in the crockpot and you can walk away and enjoy dinner when you get home.
It’s good with a side of steamed broccoli or green beans. We also like green peas. They are all very simple to make and taste great with this recipe.
Easy homemade rolls are also amazing with this dish. You can use them to soak up ever last bit of this yummy gravy! Homemade Fluffy Biscuits would be yummy as well.
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Why This Recipe Works
Slow Cooker beef Recipes is always on the menu. The crock pot cooks the beef fork tender and is always full of savory flavor. The gravy is even delicious served over rice, potatoes or noodles.
Make this beef tips recipe for the perfect weeknight meal or to feed a crowd.
Ingredients
- Cream of Mushroom Soup
- Diced Onion
- Low Sodium Beef Broth
- Salt and Pepper
- Stew Meat (or chop up any inexpensive beef on sale)
For the full list of ingredients and recipe, please scroll to the bottom for the recipe card.
Variations Ideas
- Cuts of Beef – Feel free to use different cuts of meat to make this crock pot beef tips. You can dice up top sirloin, chuck roast or other types of tougher cuts of meat.
- Seasoning – For added flavor, you can use a brown gravy mix, dry onion soup mix, Worcestershire sauce and garlic.
Step by Step Instructions
Step 1 – Place the chopped stew meat in the bottom of the crockpot before adding the other ingredients. (You can sear the meat but it’s optional).
Step 2 – Place the rest of the ingredients over the stew meat. Slow Cook on low for 6-8 hours or on high 4-6 hours. Then stir ingredients together and serve.
Recipe Tips
- Crock Pot Recommendation – If you need a new crock pot for this delicious recipe, there are some nice ones on sale. I love the programmable crock pot for when I am am not at home. You can literally set it and forget it.
- Cooking Time – Cooking time will vary will making this recipe. We like to cook on low but also works great cooking on high.
- Dicing Meat – If you are cutting your meat to prepare this recipe. We recommend cutting about the same size so the meat cooks evenly.
Serving Suggestions
This recipe is delicious over mashed potatoes, pasta or even rice. Sometimes, I will whip up a bowl of quick and easy Instant Pot Potatoes that can be ready in only 10 minutes!
I also freeze rice so that is so easy to just take out of the freezer on busy nights.
Another option is pasta! We like to serve this over egg noodles but you could use any that you like. If you are looking for an easy meal for your Valentine’s Menu, make these steak bites.
Frequently Asked Questions
There is no need to brown the meat before making this tender beef tips recipe. But if you prefer, then you can.
Yes, the beef full cooks in the slow cooker without any problems.
Store leftovers in an airtight container in the refrigerator. It will stay fresh for up to 4 days and we think it taste even better the next day.
Yes, this recipe freezes great. Place in a freezer safe container and freeze for up to 3 months. It’s nice having something so easy in the freezer. I love having a few freezer meals tucked away for busy days or weeks. Another meal that freezes great is Easy Taco Casserole Recipe.
Yes, check out this Instant Pot Beef Tips and Gravy Recipe for another way to cook this delicious meal.
More Crock Pot Beef Recipes
- Easy Crock Pot Beef Burgundy Recipe
- Easy Crock Pot Beef Stroganoff Recipe
- Crock Pot Beef Ragu Recipe
- Slow cooker beef bourguignon
- Crock Pot Meatball Stew Recipe
- Slow Cooker Roast Recipe
We love to hear from you. If you make this Slow Cooker Beef Tips Recipe, please leave us a star review.
Crockpot Beef Tips
Ingredients
- 1 can cream of mushroom soup
- 1 diced onion
- 1 cup beef broth
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 teaspoon pepper
- 2 lbs stew meat (or chop up any inexpensive beef on sale)
Instructions
- Place the chopped stew meat in the bottom of the crockpot. Place the rest of the ingredients over the stew meat.
- Cook on low for 6-8 hours or on high 4-6 hours.
- Serve over rice (or you can do mashed potatoes). By the way, did you know that I like to freeze my rice and then I just microwave it when I need it for dinner. Try doing that and this recipe will be even easier.
You can use any “cream of” soup or you can make our homemade cream of mushroom soup recipe.
Is there a substitute for the cream of Mushroom soup?
Delicious!!!! The spices were a little to intense for me shockingly, so I may do less salt next time?
It was such an easy and yummy dinner. Perfect on anything!
I’m so glad you liked it.
It was a very good easy recipe! Thank you for sharing.
Delicious! Cut up a sirloin roast, browned the chunks in a skillet, put in crockpot. Put onion and dice mushrooms in the pan with a little garlic and red wine to deglaze and added a pkg of beefy onion soup mix, can of cream of mushroom soup, can of hot water. Mixed and cooked a couple min. Poured it on meat. Cooked on low 6hrs. Served with mashed potatoes.
Can you brown the meat before placing in a crockpot? I’ve seen some recipes do that first but wasn’t exactly sure why.
Thanks!
Turned out delicious thanks for sharing
is it suggested to not stir while cooking?
Yummy! Made a cheap piece of meat very tender and flavorful. Easy too! Will be making this way again.
What size can of soup?
So do I! Thank you so much!
I love these easy recipes where you can throw everything in the slow cooker in the morning and it’s just “done” when you get home! And as a bonus you don’t have to buy expensive cuts to get a result that’s nice and tender.
I’m so glad you enjoyed it! Thanks for sharing 🙂
Served over whole grain rice.sautéed fresh mushrooms and added when done cooking. It was delicious and so easy to prepare.
I’ve made these multiple times. So good, easy, and delicious!
Sorry for the confusion – The green stuff in the final pictures is chopped up parsley used to style the photos. Thank you.
Did I miss something? What are the green ingredients in the final picture?
Absolutely love this recipe. I have made it several times and always a hit and one of my personal favorites.
There needs to be 10 stars! I have never like beef tips and this was awesome!
My 16 year old son makes this for often. The first time i made it he fell in love with it and asked for it again but also asked if he could make it from scratch the next time and now he does it frequently. I loved being in the LDCC but sadly had to unsubscribe due to financial reasons. Miss you ladies:)
Love, Love, Love this recipe!! Very easy, and love the “set and forget”! Very tasty, and so simple especially with the crock pot liners ?! Thanks so much!
Keep on sending more recipes!
Yum. Can’t wait to try this recipe. So good.
Great flavor and beef was so tender! Loved this recipe.
The meat was so tender and full of flavor. We will be making this one again!!
I made this with a “price dropped” chuck roast. I added the rest of a bottle of red wine that had been hovering around. It turned out amazing. This recipe was easy at it’s best.
I will keep you posted if I play with the recipe any more.
This is excellent! I added mushrooms and served over egg noodles and even my daughter, who doesn’t care for beef, liked it!
LOve this beef tip recipe
Delicious!!
I have made this many times.
I’ve used mashed potatoes, rice, home made egg noodles, and I have even used ramen noodles
Amazing recipe love beef tips
Me and my husband made this last night omg the crockpot did it all and it was so moist and good. The red wine made a wonderful difference. 5 stars from our dinner table. So good.
It’s easy and I love it
Served it over Rice and it’s a family Favorite
My family really loved this recipe we served over mashed potatoes so good and easy.
This was something that my husband loved. Always try to make when I can.
This is my fiancé’s absolute favorite dish and this recipe was so easy! I can make it even more for him now! So yummy!
I made this recipe and served over mashed cauliflower and it was delicious. I am watching carbs so this was a really delicious low carb dinner.
I really love this recipe the meat tender and it tasted great!
Beef is tender and savory, very easy to make, popular with holidays
Crock pot beef tips is the best with some rolls luvd it ty
We Loved it!! 🙂
We Loved bit!! 🙂
Was so delicious
My family love this recipe! I switch it with all 3 mashed potatoes, rice and noodles
I made this today and it was a hit!! So yummy, tender, flavorful. Thanks!
Super easy and very good! We like it over mashed potatoes or egg noodles
This a super simple go to recipe for my family. Everybody loves it!!!
Amazing what a aroma to come into after a hard days work and how easy the rest the dinner prep is going to be.
Great meal to make for guests!
My adult children love it!
I made this and love it. So easy. 5 stars
This recipe was quick and easy. So filling and
Perfect for starting it in the morning on low and ready for dinner. No muss no fuss.
This is amazing over egg noodles! I added mushrooms and onions – so yummy!!
I think cream of celery soup will work great in this recipe too. Thank you!
Love this recipe it’s so easy I make it atleast once a month
This is amazing over egg noodles! I added mushrooms and onions – so yummy!! ?
Would love to try this recipe.
What can be used instead of the mushroom soup?
I am extremely allergic to mushrooms.
I love this recipe it is so tasty and so easy to make!!
I have made this recipe multiple time, switching between noodles and mashed potatoes for the beef. It was easy to make and my family loved it. Thank yu
My family loved it!
This was absolutely amazing and easy.
This is the perfect dish to have on a cold winter day.
This is so tender and rich. We love this in our house! It is on the menu almost every week.
We served over rice! Hubby loved it! Thank you!
family favorite recipe, especially when it really cools off for winter. Great comfort food.
This is a super yummy & easy recipe! I make this with mashed potatoes & a salad! Best part is the short people in my family approve!!!! ??
Loved it
I make this recipe all the time. It’s the best beef tip recipe I’ve found. It’s so good and flavorful. My family loves it.
We served this over mashed potatoes and it is now a family favorite!
Can I use beef stalk instead of broth for this recipe?