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Homemade beefiness tips with mushroom gravy — as always with NO canned soups! My beefiness tips are ridiculously tender and easy to brand in your slow cooker or instant pot. Serve beef tips over cauliflower brew, mashed potatoes, egg noodles, or rice!

speckled plate on striped napkin holding mashed potatoes topped with prepared beef tips

Monday blues is striking hard this morning.

Today I'm bringing on another circular of bootleg condolement food earlier it's a yard degrees in Texas and all I want is cold food for pretty much the residue of 2019.

My homemade beef tips are a family favorite. When things are going a hundred miles per hour over here on weeknights, I demand to get dinner on the table without having to babysit information technology. So I make a round of beef tips with mushroom gravy and serve information technology over a bed of fluffy, garlicky mashed potatoes and somehow, with every bite the troubles of the 24-hour interval slowly dissipate. Hubby is happy considering information technology's human-food and I'm elated considering fewer dishes! Although to exist fair, married man does dinner dishes, then my happiness stems more from the fact that this recipe requires minimum prep but produces maximum flavor?

Yes; that's information technology.

How to Make the Best Beef Tips

slow cooked insert holding prepared mushroom and beef tips with wooden spoon

Information technology always makes me laugh when I share an instant pot recipe because immediately I'll get messages asking how to make that recipe in the tedious cooker or on the stove. And the contrary proves to be true when I make recipes in the slow cooker/stove top. So this i goes out to all of my deadening cooker AND instant pot fanatics. Allow'southward permit our kitchen gadgets brand u.s. dinner.

The inspiration for today'south beef tips with mushroom gravy comes from a Mississippi pot roast. I love what happens to brown gravy after it's been mingling with pepperoncini peppers — one problem. I similar to avoid using store-bought gravy mixes as much as possible. So I'm making a from-scratch gravy mix using uncomplicated ingredients that y'all can find in your own pantry. All except one are a pantry staple in well-nigh households, so you can chop-chop put this meal together on the fly.

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stainless steel instant pot liner with peppered and seared beef medallions

Best Beef Tips Ingredients

  • butter
  • beef
  • flour
  • chopped onions
  • mushrooms
  • seasonings
  • Worcestershire sauce
  • pepperoncini peppers
  • beefiness stock
  • cornstarch

What are beef tips anyway?

This is a question I would wonder about all the time. Because that's what people that are obsessed with food practice. Basically, beef tips are any cut of meat cut into cubes. Even so, information technology is important to empathize that when y'all're force per unit area cooking or dull cooking meat, there are certain cuts of meat that work amend than others. The tougher the meat, the longer it'll take to melt; the more than perfect it is for slow cooking/pressure cooking.

instant pot holding all the ingredients for beef tips before cooking
pouring beef stock into the instant pot before pressure cooking the stew

What cuts of beef can I use?

For beefiness stews and beefiness tips, I prefer to employ a well-trimmed chuck roast that's cut into 1-inch cubes. Sometimes, I'll purchase 'stew meat' from the grocery store, which saves the time of having to trim and cut the meat into cubes. It all depends on what the grocery shop has to offering; either would work for this recipe.

How to make certain you get the most tender beef tips:

Since our beefiness tips aren't a high-terminate cut of meat, they'll take a longer time to cook; making them perfect for the slow cooker or instant pot. To ensure that the meat falls apart, allow the meat to continue cooking until it becomes fall-apart tender. 35 minutes should do it for the pressure cooker, but the slow cooker involves a little more guesswork. If you know your slow cooker runs hot, begin checking effectually the 5-hour mark (on low heat), if it runs cold, yous'll most certainly desire to allow it go for 6-seven (at to the lowest degree.) Trust me, i bite of that tender meat that only falls apart, and yous'll be putting this on the weekly rotation.

slow cooker insert with prepared beef tips with wooden spoon

Practice I have to use pepperoncini peppers?

Always since I added a handful of peperoncini to my beefiness stew, I haven't been able to become over information technology! I beloved the way the pepperoncini peppers add together and so much season to this stew. I purchase them in a jar already sliced, so all I have to do is add in a 1/two cup worth. It's important to notation that you lot want the peppers here, not the liquid they come packed in. I've tested the recipe without the peppers and didn't beloved information technology equally much as I did with them. However, it is your call. They're normally constitute in the condiment aisle next to the pickled jalapeños — just don't worry; they aren't as spicy as jalapeños!

Can I brand this recipe gluten-free?

Absolutely! My suggestion would be to bandy the flour for a i-1 gluten-free baking mix. The package will be marked, and information technology ways that you tin bandy 1 function flour for 1 part of the baking mix. So for this recipe, you lot'll demand a total of 2 tablespoons of 1-1 GF blistering mix.

striped surface with speckled bowl with mashed potatoes topped with prepared tips sprinkled with parsley

How to make the best beef tips with mushroom gravy:

  1. Sear the meat. Make sure y'all don't skip this step. I'm such a big fan of the Maillard reaction. This occurs when you sear the meat in a hot pan with a petty butter. It creates a nice brown chaff that seals in the juices and adds and so much depth to your recipes. It'south free flavor!
  2. Mushroom gravy: Sure calculation mushrooms to our beef tips makes this a mushroom gravy, simply what elevates the flavors is a hint of mushroom powder. It'south an umami mix that I picked up from Trader Joe's. More on that in a sec.

Practise I have to utilize mushroom base?

I always get a lot of questions asking whether a specific ingredient can simply exist omitted from the recipe. This is probably i of those ingredients I'm sure a few people volition have questions nearly then I wanted to address it. Mushroom powder is a footling chef secret used to really amp up the flavors of beef gravy. You lot know when you swallow out, and you wonder, why does their brown gravy taste and then much better? UMAMI. The mushroom pulverization adds a subtle complexity to the sauce making it so much more than succulent.

For this recipe, I highly suggest looking for a mushroom powder (such as the 1 from Trader Joe'south, powdered porcini or shiitake, or using a piddling bit of Better Than Bouillon mushroom base.) I have tested this recipe without these ingredients and found that it does not yield the same flavor equally when we're using something to assistance heave the umami flavour in the gravy.

This is the perfect warm and comforting meal to throw together in your wearisome cooker or instant pot of cold evenings. We're back downward with lower temps this calendar week, and and so I was elated to put my instant pot beefiness tips on the menu for the week!

ENJOY!

speckled bowl with a spoon resting with mashed potatoes topped with mushroom gravy and beef tips

Ridiculously Tender Beef Tips with Mushroom Gravy

Ingredients

  • 3 tablespoons butter
  • ii pounds chuck roast, trimmed+ cubed (or stew meat works too)
  • 2 tablespoons all-purpose flour
  • i onion, diced
  • viii ounces baby Bella mushrooms, cutting into thick slices
  • 1 ½ teaspoon EACH: garlic powder AND sugar
  • 1 teaspoon EACH: onion powder, dried thyme, AND mushroom powder
  • i tablespoon Worcestershire sauce
  • 1 big bay foliage
  • ½ cup pepperoncini peppers, thinly sliced
  • 1 ½ - 2 cups low sodium beef stock (come across directions)
  • two tablespoons cornstarch (mixed with a few tablespoons of water)

Instructions

  1. SEAR: Flavor the beefiness with the flour, a large pinch of salt and pepper; mix well. Heat the butter in the instant pot on the sauté setting or a cast iron skillet over medium-high heat. When information technology melts sear the beefiness in batches to form a chocolate-brown chaff, remove to a plate, and continue searing the remaining beefiness. Add the onions and switch to a wooden spoon. Sauté them for 1 minute, scraping the bottom of the pot to brand sure no chocolate-brown bits are left stuck on.
  2. SLOW COOKER: Place 2 cups of beef stock along with the remaining ingredients in the slow cooker (except the corn starch) and melt on high for 3-4 hours or low for 5-seven hours. 35 minutes before the cooking time is upwards, combine ½ cup of the liquid from the slow cooker and the cornstarch in a small bowl, whisk until smooth. Add to the tiresome cooker and allow for the food to cook for the remaining 30 minutes. If the gravy is too thick, add a few tablespoons of water to thin information technology to your desired consistency. If you nonetheless find your gravy is thin, add more cornstarch mixed with a tablespoon of water. Adjust common salt and pepper to preference and serve over rice/mashed potatoes/cauliflower mash, etc.
  3. OR INSTANT POT:  Identify one ½ cups of beefiness stock along with the remaining ingredients in the instant pot (except the cornstarch) and select the meat/stew setting. Cook on transmission high force per unit area for 35 minutes. Once the stew is cooked allow natural pressure level release for 10-15 minutes. This gives the meat a chance to actually soak up all those flavors. Click the 'sauté' setting. Deliquesce the cornstarch with two-3 tablespoons of h2o and add that to the instant pot once the liquid starts bubbling. Allow the sauce to thicken, about one-2 minutes, stir to combine. If the gravy becomes too thick, you lot tin can add a couple more tablespoons of water to thin it to your desired consistency. Adjust salt and pepper to preference and serve over mashed cauliflower, mashed potatoes, rice, or egg noodles.
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