Almost all housewives can cook beef in a slow cooker. This simple, quick and satisfying dish, served with various side dishes, is a great option to feed the whole family. Goulash can be prepared both in modern Teflon pans and in thick-walled cast-iron. Today we want to offer a variety of recipes for cooking beef with gravy in a slow cooker. The meat will be soft, boiled, very tasty! The advantage of cooking is that it takes less time than cooking in ordinary pans.
Whip up goulash
If you don’t have much time to cook, then we suggest you try this option of cooking beef gravy in a slow cooker. There will be a minimum of ingredients, you won’t have to prepare products for a long time.
Take for cooking:
- a kilogram of beef;
- more onion;
- two tablespoons of tomato paste and mayonnaise;
- a spoonful of flour;
- salt and seasoning.
How to cook goulash fast?
If there is very little time left to prepare dinner for the family, then this recipe for beef gravy will be a real salvation.
- Cut the meat into large pieces, wash and let the water drain.
- Peel the onion, chop in half rings.
- Pour a little sunflower oil into the multicooker bowl, lightly fry the meat, add the onion.
- When the beef juice boils, you need to add salt and seasonings, flour, tomato paste and mayonnaise. Fry until orange, fill with water and simmer in the "Meat" or "Stew".
Many cookers-pressure cookers do not have the "Frying" mode, so you will need to fry them in a pan, or skip this step altogether, just mix all the ingredients in the multicooker pan, fill with water and put on "Stew". In a pressure cooker, this mode takes only 30 minutes, but the meat is very soft!
Goulash with tomato
This option of beef gravy in a slow cooker will appeal to lovers of tomato sauces.
Ingredients:
- 700 grams of beef tenderloin;
- 300 grams of ripe tomatoes or in their own juice;
- 300 grams of bell pepper;
- three tablespoons of thick tomato paste;
- salt and seasoning;
- a spoon of flour;
- bulb;
- carrot.
All products are simple, they are sold in every supermarket, so there are never any problems with availability.
Cooking goulash with tomato
- First of all, you need to prepare the meat: cut in slices in portions along the fibers, removing all the films, they become stiff during cooking. Rinse, knock over in a colander and let the water drain.
- While the meat is freed from excess fluid, prepare the vegetables: chop the onion as you like - rings, half rings, smaller. You do not need to remove the peel from tomatoes, cut them into cubes, peel them from the insides and cut into strips.
- Put the slow cooker on the "Frying" mode, fry the meat first, then add the onion when the golden hue appears on it, introduce the peppers, fry them for five minutes. Send tomatoes to the rest of the ingredients, if using in your own juice, then without juice.
- When the frying is almost ready, salt and season, add the tomato paste and flour, fry it to orange. Next, pour the juice from the tomatoes, if used in their own juice.
- Pour water into the pan so that it covers the roast of meat and vegetables by 2 centimeters. Put the slow cooker on the "Stew" or "Meat" mode.
Beef in Sour Cream Sauce
This recipe for beef gravy in a slow cooker is incredibly simple. Despite this, the final dish is very aromatic, rich, and you would think that it was prepared by professional chefs.
Products for goulash:
- 700 grams of beef;
- 400 grams of sour cream;
- 3 cloves of garlic;
- bulb;
- basil;
- a spoon of flour;
- salt and seasoning.
How to cook beef in sour cream
Consider the recipe for beef gravy in a slow cooker step by step. Check out the photo of the dish above, it looks very appetizing!
- The meat needs to be cut, washed.
- Finely chop the onion into cubes, and sell the garlic through a press.
- Place the beef in a multicooker pan, sauté to a blush, add onion and garlic. We fry for another 2-3 minutes until the onion begins to cast in gold.
- Salt, season, add sour cream mixed with a spoon of flour and a glass of water. Add basil.
- We put the slow cooker on the "Extinguishing" mode, wait for the program to finish and serve the delicious beef and gravy to the table.
Beef in Pomegranate Sauce
This is a spicy dish, a little sour, a bit sweet and incredibly fragrant! It’s worth at least once trying to cook such beef gravy in a slow cooker. You can serve the dish as a hot dish on the festive table, decorating a plate with a side dish and beef with pomegranate seeds. This recipe is not "for everybody", it will appeal to all meat-eaters, without exception, even those who prefer not to mix meat with fruits.
Ingredients:
- 500-700 grams of veal;
- large pomegranate;
- 10 coffee beans
- salt and a mixture of peppers.
In addition to peppers, it is not recommended to add other seasonings, we won’t even take onions, since all this can interrupt the coffee-pomegranate shade of taste.
Cooking Beef with Pomegranate Sauce
- Wipe the pomegranate seeds through a sieve into a deep bowl, which will then fit the meat.
- Pepper, if not ground, pitch, do the same with coffee beans, add all this to the crushed pomegranate.
- Salt the sauce.
- Cut the meat into small pieces. Put in the sauce, mix well and refrigerate for half an hour (if not veal, but beef, then for an hour).
- In the pan of the multicooker, place the meat with the sauce, put the "Stewing" mode and wait until the end of cooking.
Conclusion
All the presented recipes for beef gravy can be used not only when cooking in a slow cooker, but also in ordinary pots and pans. The slow cooker is convenient in that it saves time and effort in cooking: you do not need to stir stably, increase and decrease the heat of the fire, the gravy will not “run away” and will not burn to the stove. Reviews about this preparation are only the best.
In almost all recipes, flour is listed on the ingredients list. You can completely do without it, but with flour the gravy turns out to be thicker - it is worth orienting yourself according to your own taste preferences. As the housewives write on the Web, flour does not change the taste of the dish at all, but the sauce with it looks more appetizing, as it is thick.
They recommend absolutely serving all beef and gravy with a wide variety of side dishes. It can be mashed potatoes or just boiled potatoes, rice, risotto, buckwheat, pea porridge, pasta. Also, in the reviews, all agreed that only milk porridges, fried potatoes and vegetable salads would not work.