Slow Cooker Beef Tips
46 Comments Sep 14, 2022
Updated Mar 10, 2025
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This slow cooker beef tips recipe is a comforting, slow-cooked dish featuring tender stew meat in a rich, flavorful gravy that’s perfect over rice or mashed potatoes.
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There’s nothing better than a comforting meal made in the slow cooker, and this beef tips recipe is a total winner. We use stew meat as the “beef tips,” pairing it with simple, easy-to-find ingredients to create a rich and flavorful gravy. It’s the kind of dish that makes the whole house smell amazing and feels like a big hug after a long day.
Just let this recipe simmer all day while you’re at work, and when you come home, it’s ready to serve! Pair it with fluffy steamed rice or creamy mashed potatoes for a hearty, satisfying dinner that everyone will love. It’s a guaranteed crowd-pleaser!
What you need:
Stew meat is the star of this dish, slow-cooking to tender perfection and soaking up all the flavors of the rich gravy. You can also use it in other recipes, like my slow cooker beef and broccoli. Brown gravy mix provides the perfect base for the gravy, while a blend of seasonings—dried onion, garlic, salt, and pepper—enhances every bite.
Beef stock, combined with Worcestershire sauce and a touch of cornstarch, creates a thick and flavorful sauce that ties everything together (low-sodium beef broth works just as well). A little butter is used to brown the beef tips, adding extra richness and helping to build the base for this comforting, savory meal. {The full recipe is in the recipe card below the images}.
Variations
- Make a mushroom gravy by adding 2 cups of sliced mushrooms (or a small can).
- Add a 1/2 cup of red wine (in place of some of the beef broth) for added flavor.
- Add a dollop of sour cream before serving — this will make the dish taste similar to beef stroganoff.
- Cubed beef chuck, round roast, or sirloin go great in this recipe. You may even enjoy trying it with venison.
Step-by-Step Directions
Step One – Brown the beef tips over medium high heat in butter in a cast iron skillet.
Step Two – Flip the beef tips to make sure they are browned all over.
Step Three – In a large bowl, whisk together the beef stock, garlic, cornstarch, brown gravy packet, minced onion, and Worcestershire sauce.
Step Four – Add beef tips into the slow cooker and season with salt and pepper.
Step Five – Pour over gravy mixture.
Step Six – Cook on LOW for 5-6 hours or until fork tender. Serve and enjoy!
Ways to serve:
- One of the most classic ways to serve beef tips and gravy is on a bed of mashed potatoes smothered in the gravy.
- Another ideal way to serve this delicious meal is on a bed of egg noodles. And if you’re family enjoys steamed white rice, this is another hearty serving option.
- These easy crockpot beef tips can also be served with a variety of vegetables liked steamed carrots, and broccoli. (try my honey garlic carrots recipe)
Recipe FAQs
Yes. though, I would wait to brown the meat, for it’s unsafe to only partially cook meat and refrigerate it.
Place any remaining beef tips in an airtight container. They will keep in the fridge for up to 4 days.
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Slow Cooker Beef Tips
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Ingredients
- 2 Tbsp. salted butter
- salt and pepper to taste
- 4 lbs. stew beef, I used top round, cut into 1 inch chunks
- 2.5 cups beef stock
- 2 cloves garlic, Minced
- 3 Tbsp. cornstarch
- .87 oz. package brown gravy
- 2 Tbsp. dried minced onion
- 2 Tbsp. Worcestershire sauce
Instructions
- Season the beef with salt and pepper and set aside.
- Heat a cast iron skillet over high heat until lightly smoking, add the butter and stew beef. Brown the beef on all sides. (Do not cook beef all the way through, just brown the outside). About 3 Minutes.
- Add the browned beef to the slow cooker pot. In a large bowl, whisk together the beef stock, garlic, cornstarch, brown gravy packet, minced onion and worcestershire sauce. Pour over the beef and cook on low for 5-6 hours.
- Beef will be down when fork tender and the gravy has thickened.
- Serve over mashed potatoes, rice or egg noodles. Enjoy!
Sarah’s Notes
- Place any remaining crockpot beef tips in an airtight container. They will keep in the fridge for up to 4 days.
- Stew meat, beef chuck, round roast, or sirloin go great in this recipe. You may even enjoy trying it with venison.
- Make a mushroom gravy by adding 2 cups of sliced mushrooms (or a small can).
- Add a 1/2 cup of red wine (in place of some of the beef broth) for added flavor.
- Add a dollop of sour cream before serving — this will make the dish taste similar to beef stroganoff.
Nutrition
Nutrition info is auto-generated. This information is an estimate; if you are on a special diet, please use your own calculations.
Jeanie-Loved this and would definitely make again❤️
I don’t have a Brown Gravy Mix packet but I have an Au Jus Packet. Do you think that will work?
It will be saltier and not as thick, but it would work.
I don’t have brown gravy mix, but I have a McCormick Slow Cooker Hearty Beef Stew packet. Could I use that and then not do the corn starch since there is corn starch in the packet?
I think that will work great!
Can I use tenderloin for this or would that be to lean of a meat?
Beef tenderloin would work great.
Has anyone cooked this low and slow in a convection oven? I’m thinking of making it for 100 people but that would be a lot of crockpots.
Put it in a deep pan cover with plastic wrap and foil. Oven at 250- cook for hours..I do catering and this is how we do it for 100! Well you will need a couple of pans! I use the full size steam pans!