These Slow Cooker Beef Tips cook all day and are fall-apart tender when after cooking in the crock pot all day.
Serve them over mashed potatoes and you have a delicious meal that would make anyone happy . . . it’s comfort food at it’s finest!
This recipe for slow cooker beef tips is similar to a pot roast, except everything is broken up and you can make a delicious gravy with the juices when the beef is done cooking. Even that part is simple too!
Side dish ideas for Slow Cooker Beef Tips:
Ingredient Notes
- All-purpose flour
- Seasoned salt
- Ground Pepper
- Garlic powder
- Sirloin roast tips (or beef stew cubes works too!)
- Olive oil
- Diced onion
- Fresh mushrooms
- Condensed beef broth (like THIS, I used Campbell’s brand)
- Worcestershire sauce
- Ketchup
- Red wine vinegar
- Water
- Italian seasoning
- Cornstarch
- Cold water
Note:
How To Make Slow Cooker Beef Sirloin Tips and Gravy
- Spray slow cooker with non-stick cooking spray.
- In a medium bowl, mix together flour, salt, garlic powder, and pepper. Dredge meat tips in the flour mixture.
- Heat olive oil in large skillet over medium-high heat, then brown tips for a couple of minutes (you aren’t cooking them all the way through, just browning the edges). Place beef tips in slow cooker.
- Dump onions and mushrooms on top of meat in slow cooker.
- Mix broth, Worcestershire, ketchup, red wine vinegar, water in a bowl. Pour on top of meat in slow cooker.
- Sprinkle Italian seasoning on top of everything and cook on low for 7-8 hours.
- After meat is finished cooking, mix cornstarch together with water in a separate bowl. Using a strainer, remove beef tips from slow cooker and place in a separate bowl. Pour cornstarch mixture into remaining liquid in the crock pot and mix well. Add the beef tips back into the slow cooker and cook on high for about 10 minutes or until the liquid starts to thicken and turns into a gravy.
- Serve over hot mashed potatoes.
Storing and Other Tips
Store any leftovers in an airtight container and refrigerate for up to 4 days.
If you don’t have condensed beef broth, you can use regular beef broth and just condense it down. Here are the instructions on how to do that from the Gourmet Sleuth.
You can purchase a sirloin roast and cut it into 1-2″ pieces if you store does not carry the tips already. You can also substitute beef stew cubes, which you can find in in the meat department of most grocery stores.
If you are short on time, you can skip the 3rd step where you brown the meat in a skillet before adding it to the slow cooker. Browning the meat will help to lock in the moisture, giving you extra tender and juicy meat, but it will still taste great even if you don’t brown it.
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Slow Cooker Beef Sirloin Tips and Gravy
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon seasoned salt
- 1/4 teaspoon ground pepper
- 1/4 teaspoon garlic powder
- 3 pounds beef tips, or stew meat cubed
- 2 Tablespoon olive oil
- 1 onion, diced
- 1 cup fresh mushrooms
- 10.5 ounces beef broth, condensed
- 2 Tablespoon Worcestershire sauce
- 2 Tablespoon ketchup
- 2 Tablespoon red wine vinegar
- 2 Tablespoon water
- 1/2 teaspoon Italian seasoning
- 2 Tablespoon cornstarch
- 2 Tablespoon cold water
Instructions
- Spray slow cooker with non-stick cooking spray.
- In a medium bowl, mix together flour, salt, garlic powder, and pepper. Dredge meat tips in the flour mixture.
- Heat olive oil in large skillet over medium-high heat, then brown tips for a couple of minutes (you aren't cooking them all the way through, just browning the edges). Place beef tips in slow cooker.
- Dump onions and mushrooms on top of meat in slow cooker.
- Mix broth, Worcestershire, ketchup, red wine vinegar, water in a bowl. Pour on top of meat in slow cooker.
- Sprinkle Italian seasoning on top of everything and cook on low for 7-8 hours.
- After meat is finished cooking, mix cornstarch together with water in a separate bowl. Using a strainer, remove beef tips from slow cooker and place in a separate bowl. Pour cornstarch mixture into remaining liquid in the crock pot and mix well. Add the beef tips back into the slow cooker and cook on high for about 10 minutes or until the liquid starts to thicken and turns into a gravy.
- Serve over hot mashed potatoes.
Notes
Nutrition
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Wow, this sounds really delicious!
Hi there! This sounds like something my husband would love!
Help me out, though- what are sirloin roast tips? I have never seen that in any of the meat sections of grocery stores in my area. Since we don’t seem to have that, any suggestions on a substitution?
Thanks!
This sounds so easy and delicious. My boys love eating beef, so this sort of thing goes over really well in our house. And what could be easier than cooking it up in the crock pot?!?
Heidi- so sorry about that! You can actually just buy a sirloin roast and cut it into 1-2″ pieces and it will work perfectly. 🙂 Another thing that you can do is buy beef stew cubes (they usually have them all cut into pieces for beef stew in the meat section of the grocery store) and it will work!
I will be taking a meal in to my neighbor’s family on Sunday and thought this would be delicious, but they are a gluten free family. Do you think substituting GF flour would be possible? Thanks!
It should be fine. The recipe only calls for 1/2 cup.
Is it really 2665 calories per serving?!?!? It looks sooo good. Please tell me this was a typo….
Thanks for bringing this to our attention. We sent it on to our technical support to check it out.
Hi, I’m in the process of making this right now for supper tonight, can’t wait to see if it tastes as good as it looks.
Made this and it is great! I cheated though…I had cube steak thawed out and had to use it, so I cut it into 1″ pieces and used it. Hubby loved it! If it was that good using cube steak, I can only imagine how good it is with roast tips! 😉 This recipe is a keeper! But then again, what recipe on this site isn’t!?
Thanks again!
Thanks very much that was a 10 star meal. and very east to follow recipe . I will be back soon . Again thanks.
What size whole sirloin roast would you recommend using. And what kind of mushrooms work the best in this?
You need 3 to 4 pounds of sirloin tips, so if using a roast you would want it to be about that same weight. Any sliced mushrooms in the produce section will work great.
I need to make this for a crowed of 20 ppl how would measurements change? Or just double everything? I know beef broth what is condensed beef broth I never seen that?
Just double everything for feeding a larger crowd. You may need to use more than one slow cooker if it’s more than 2/3 full after doubling. Campbell’s makes a condensed beef broth. But here is how you can substitute regular beef broth –
About Condensed beef broth
Beef broth which has been reduced down so it is stronger than regular strength broth. Campbell’s makes condensed chicken and beef broth and it can be found in the soup isle of most grocery stores.
Substitute for Condensed beef broth
For 1 cup of condensed broth, simmer 1 1/2 cups regular strength broth and reduce to 1 cup.
So you would need to adjust accordingly to your measurements if you are doubling the recipe.
I made this recipe today, I follow all the steps and did a reduction in the beef both since my store don’t carry it, I loved the taste, but it was very soggy, the last step when I’m supposed to add the corn starch, the meet had no water or juice to drain it was dry! What did I do wrong?
Hi Clara, not sure what you could have done wrong. There should be plenty of liquid with the whole can of beef broth added along with other liquids.
I’m planning on making this for my family tomorrow. We have early church and was wondering of it would work to dip the meat In flour and brown it the night before and then place everything else in the crock pot in the morning?
That should work just fine.
U put a recipe on fb for pull apart pumpkin breakfast bread but recipe did not show up is there anyway u can repost recipe please??
Hi
I don’t like using a crock pot can I cook this in the oven or on stove top?
Hi Paula, you should be fine cooking this in the oven. You’ll want a nice pot with a lid.
Here is the link on our website – https://www.sixsistersstuff.com/2016/10/pumpkin-pull-apart-breakfast-bread.html
Would the beef tenderloin be a better cut than the sirloin roast? Or is the sirloin roast a better choice for slow cooking?
What is the purpose of the red wine vinegar? I don’t have any, but could I use dry red wine?
Any cuts of beef will work well. We often buy the stew meat and after cooking all day in the slow cooker, it is super moist.
What about the red wine vinegar? What could I substitute for it?
Hi Connie,
I did some searching and reading on the internet. Where this recipe only calls for 2 Tablespoons of Red Wine Vinegar you should be fine substituting. Here is what I found for you….. Substituting vinegar does not alter the taste of the dish substantially. However, this is true only if the recipe demands a little use of vinegar. Balsamic vinegar, white wine vinegar, apple cider vinegar, rice vinegar can all be substituted for red wine vinegar.
Read more at Buzzle: http://www.buzzle.com/articles/red-wine-vinegar-substitute.html
My husband isn’t crazy about onions. Any ideas for what else to add? And can I make it without the last step with the cornstarch? Thanks!
You could totally leave out the onions if you don’t like them. You could also add in an envelope of onion soup mix for flavor. The cornstarch and water at the end thickens up the liquid to make a gravy. You could skip that last step if you don’t want your liquid to be thick.
Can you cook on high to speed up cook time? If so how many hours?
Have you eever done this without browning the meat first?
We often make this without browning the beef tips first. They cook all day in the slow cooker, so they will be cooked through.
Can I make without the mushrooms? Or used something in its place… my boys don’t like mushrooms. Thanks!
You can just leave the mushrooms out all together if the family doesn’t like them.
My cooking skills are average at best, however I am capable of making good meals. Is this dish have a good chance of turning out good for the average cook?
Hi Lori. I made this last Sunday for dinner. It really is so easy to make and the slow cooker basically does all the work. I didn’t even do step #3 in the instructions. I put the floured meat tips directly into the slow cooker. (So I didn’t use any olive oil since I didn’t brown the tips.) Let it cook all day on low and it was amazing. You should be fine making this recipe! Let us know if you have any other questions.
Next time I am leaving out the vinegar. It just doesn’t taste right in a dish like this. It was just okay.
Hi Betty. You could easily leave out the vinegar. Have a great week.
Could I prep this and put it all together as a freezer meal?
Yes, this recipe would work as a freezer meal.
We’ve made this dish twice already since the video on IGTV (visuals help me TREMENDOUSLY! 😉) love it 😋
We loved this recipe in the instant pot. It was delicious!!
There is no instruction for when to add the condensed broth. I imagine it is with the ketchup mix.
You mentioned Instapot directions in the video. Would you mind sharing where they are? I’m assuming everything the same except instead of slow cooking, pressure cook a certain timeframe? Or slow cook partial and finish off pressure cooking?
Scroll all the way down to the instructions and ingredients and it’s in step #5.
The recipe never mentions when to add the condensed beef broth.
In step #5 in the recipe card it says to add the broth. Hope this helps.
Hi! I am planning to make this tomorrow!!
I got pre sliced angus sirloin tip steaks…..is this type of meat good for this recipe?
Thank you!
Laurie
Update: I made this with the sirloin tip cut of meat and it was absolutely delicious – in case anyone else is wondering!!
Laurie
So sorry I am a little late to the game! Yes it should work great, and you already let us know that it turned out amazing!!!
Could I prepare everything (but the noodles of course) and freeze it to cook it in the crock pot 5 days later? We’re going on vacation and would like the mess at home before we go.
Yes, this makes a great freezer meal.
Can you cook on high to speed up cook time? If so how many hours?
Low and slow is always best for moist and tender meat. But if you need to do in on high temp, it would take about 3-4 hours.
I don’t see the step that adds the beef broth. When is it added?
Scroll down to the recipe card and it’s in step #5.
Hi, how long would you cook this if using an instant pot? Believe I heard you say a half hour on your Facebook video?
Just put this in the crockpot for dinner but realized too late that I used regular beef broth instead of condensed. Oh well. I’ll remember that for next time. Hoping it will be good.
If I were going to bake this in the oven (with stew meat), how long should I bake it, and at what temperature?
The temperature of the slow cooker depends on the model. The slow cooker has a temperature of 190 – 200 degrees F. while on the low setting.
The temperature ranging between 200-205 degrees Fahrenheit is the optimum cooking temperature on your slow cooker. So your oven would need to be at that temp and follow the instructions as directed in the recipe. You would want to use a good pan too.
My family devoured this. This was honestly the best tasting “pot roast” recipe I’ve tried.
Yay! So glad to hear that the family liked the Beef Tips and Gravy!
Hi. Can’t wait to try this recipe on my new instant pot. Can I skip the browning for the IP? Or will it taste better if I brown the meet? Other than that I follow the same steps as the recipe above? What’s a substitue for seasoned salt? Oh and for 1.5 pounds of meat everything else should be divided in 2 but the time? Thank you
We have the recipe for the instant pot – https://www.sixsistersstuff.com/recipe/instant-pot-beef-tips-and-gravy-recipe/
This recipe was sooooo delicious!
Omg I tried this recipe today and it is absolutely delicious and very versatile. You can serve it over mashed potatoes, rice, pasta, even toast or bread. Thank you!
So glad you liked it! A family favorite for us too!
What size crockpot is best?
We recommend a 6-quart crock pot for every recipe on our website, unless the recipe specifically states a smaller size.
Do you have an instapot version of this
I made this tonight and it was FANTASTIC!! I did the quick version and didn’t brown the meat first and it still turned out perfect. I followed the recipe exactly and served it over egg noodles. It made a lot and we STILL didn’t have leftovers. My teenage boys both had three helpings 🥰
We sure do! You can find the recipe here: https://www.sixsistersstuff.com/recipe/instant-pot-beef-tips-and-gravy-recipe/
I love this recipe! BUT, I left out the mushrooms because my husband doesn’t eat or like them. I replaced the mushrooms with 1 diced bell pepper (any color is fine) and let me tell you! It came out absolutely amazing! I did not need any cornstarch at the end because I feel like those peppers did the trick for thickening it up. I have not made it any other way, so I’m not sure how to compare it to the original recipe that calls for the mushrooms. The peppers are basically undetectable at the end, so the diced pepper option is totally kid friendly! This substitution did not disappoint! Hope this helps someone, as I had the same questions when I first came across this recipe! Side note: I have a smaller slow cooker, so I actually only used 1.5 lbs of meat.