Slow Cooker Steak with Mushrooms and Onions

by Tara Ziegmont

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I love the little cookbooks at the cash register of the grocery store. I don’t care whose cookbooks they are – Taste of Home, Everyday Food, Pillsbury, Campbell’s. They’re usually a couple of dollars, and most of the time, they’re packed with yummy recipes that use normal ingredients.

Over the last couple of months, I have only allowed myself to buy the cookbook if it features low fat or low calorie foods. It’s not as hard as you might think.

On Valentine’s Day, I picked up Prevention magazine’s Slow Cooker Recipe Book. After I bought it and brought it home, I noticed that it says “Display until 12/22/09″ on the cover, but I didn’t care. It’s not like recipes expire.

I picked out quite a few recipes to try, and I like that the recipes all have nutritional information calculated. It’s listed right alongside the recipe. When I make the time to track my food, that information will be really important to me.

I wanted to share my favorite recipe so far. This one is indulgent, but it’s still under 330 calories per 6-ounce steak.

I’m the kind of person who eats a little burger with a lot of A1 sauce, so being marinated in A1 made these steaks a huge treat for me.

Slow Cooker Steak with Mushrooms and Onions
 

Ingredients
  • 2 – 2½ pounds of boneless beef bottom round steaks (or braising steaks), fat trimmed, cut into 6 equal steaks
  • ½ cup steak sauce (is there any steak sauce aside from A1?)
  • 1 tablespoon olive oil
  • 4 cups sliced mushrooms
  • 2 onions, chopped
  • ¼ teaspoon salt
  • ½ teaspoon freshly ground black pepper

Instructions
  1. Combine steaks and steak sauce in a large ziploc bag. Massage contents to coat evenly. Refrigerate at least 1 hour, up to 8 hours.
  2. Remove steaks from marinade. Heat oil over medium-high heat in a large skillet. Add steaks and brown, turning once, about 2 minutes per side. Remove skillet from heat.
  3. Layer mushrooms, onions, and browned steaks in a 4-quart (or larger) slow cooker. Deglaze skillet with a small amount of water and add pan juices to cooker. Sprinkle in salt and pepper.
  4. The original recipe didn’t call for it, but we dumped in another ½ cup of A1 sauce.
  5. Cover. Cook on low for 6 to 8 hours or on high for 4 to 6 hours, until meat is cooked through and tender.

Notes
Makes 6 servings, 327 calories per serving

We ate this with Broccoli, Cheese, and Rice casserole. It’s another of our favorites, and it’s fairly healthy, too. It was a perfect comfort food kind of meal.

© 2010 – 2013, Tara Ziegmont. All rights reserved.

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{ 26 comments… read them below or add one }

1 Bay February 22, 2010 at 8:22 pm

This looks yummy and I'm not even a steak person. Just an A1 person :)

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2 FeelsLikeHomeBlog February 23, 2010 at 2:53 am

One of my cousins said lately, “You'd put A1 sauce on A1 sauce.” :)

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3 upstatemomof3 February 23, 2010 at 6:57 am

Oh that looks good!!! I just love slow cooker recipes. :)

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4 pamelaponder February 23, 2010 at 7:33 am

sounds great I love slow cooker reciepes a swell thanks

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5 Jessica @ This Blessed Life February 23, 2010 at 1:25 pm

I’ve been looking for a steak slow-cooker recipe. Perfect!

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6 susieshomemade February 23, 2010 at 9:00 am

What a yummy tackle!

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7 Staci February 23, 2010 at 3:26 pm

Sounds yummy! I love those little cookbooks too. They always have such great ideas in them!

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8 FeelsLikeHomeBlog February 23, 2010 at 3:38 pm

They do. I've never gotten one that I didn't like.

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9 AllTheLittleStuff February 23, 2010 at 4:13 pm

Mmmm, that looks good!! Thanks for sharing with us!

I agree – I love picking up a new recipe book at the cash register. There are so many of them!

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10 lpink75 February 23, 2010 at 4:29 pm

That looks really good. I am always looking for new slow cooker recipes. I am going to put this on the menu for next week. Thanks for sharing!!!

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11 FeelsLikeHomeBlog February 23, 2010 at 4:43 pm

We're having it again this week. :)

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12 Geri@heartnsoulcooking February 23, 2010 at 5:20 pm

I love cooking in the slow cooker and this is a GREAT!!! recipe.

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13 Brenda February 23, 2010 at 6:01 pm

I love all the mushrooms in this dish, I bet its really yummy

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14 FeelsLikeHomeBlog February 24, 2010 at 5:02 pm

I think so! You'll have to stop back and let me know how you liked it. :)

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15 Tonya February 26, 2010 at 7:01 am

This sounds sooo yummie…thanks for sharing. I think the entire family would enjoy this.

Blessings~
Tonya

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16 nancysdailydish February 26, 2010 at 1:04 pm

What a great recipe! This is perfect for my big family of 8! Thank you!

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17 Pattie and Allie February 26, 2010 at 9:04 pm

My husband is a huge fan of A-1. Great post!
xoxo Pattie

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18 Maria_B February 27, 2010 at 5:41 pm

Oh yum! I LOVE my crockpot. Pop something in first thing in the morning, have a delicious meal at dinnertime. Doesn't get any better than that!

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19 Melissa Smallwood February 27, 2010 at 6:04 pm

yum yum that sounds (and looks) fabulous!

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20 Stefany @ To.Be.Thode February 27, 2010 at 7:58 pm

Oh my! That sounds fantastic!

Now you have me thinking. I probably should check those cookbooks out because WW points would be pretty easy to figure out from them.

Thanks for linking up today on Saturday Sound Off!

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21 sarabroers February 27, 2010 at 8:02 pm

This recipe looks yummy~ gonna have to try this one!

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22 Maria_B February 28, 2010 at 1:41 am

Oh yum! I LOVE my crockpot. Pop something in first thing in the morning, have a delicious meal at dinnertime. Doesn't get any better than that!

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23 Melissa Smallwood February 28, 2010 at 2:04 am

yum yum that sounds (and looks) fabulous!

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24 Stefany @ To.Be.Thode February 28, 2010 at 3:58 am

Oh my! That sounds fantastic!

Now you have me thinking. I probably should check those cookbooks out because WW points would be pretty easy to figure out from them.

Thanks for linking up today on Saturday Sound Off!

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25 sarabroers February 28, 2010 at 4:02 am

This recipe looks yummy~ gonna have to try this one!

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26 actingbalanced February 28, 2010 at 9:05 pm

Mmmm… looks so yummy! Saved it for the next time braising steak comes on sale!

Heather from Couponning101
and
Acting Balanced

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