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Slow Cooker Casserole Beef

Cassie greco
Deliciousness & comforting, a winter classic really!
4.41 from 5 votes
Prep Time 25 minutes
Cook Time 6 hours
Total Time 6 minutes
Course Main Course
Cuisine Beef, casserole, pot roast, stew
Servings 3 - 4

Equipment

  • 6L slow cooker

Ingredients
 

  • 1 tbsp plain flour
  • 1 tbsp Dried or fresh thyme - I use both
  • 500 grams diced casserole beef
  • 1 tbsp olive oil
  • 3 Garlic cloves, peeled and crushed
  • 1.5 onions, peeled and sliced
  • 3 Carrots, peeled and quartered
  • 5 mushrooms quartered
  • 400 ml Campbell’s beef stock
  • Salt
  • ground black pepper

-later on:

  • 3 tbsp Cornflour - to thicken
  • 1 cup of spinach leaves

Instructions
 

  • Cover the beef chunks in the flour, brown that in a pot with the olive oil some salt and pepper (try not to brown it too much though)
  • Slightly brown the onion, garlic and carrot with it
  • Add a little stock to the bottom of pot and use a spatula to scrape out into slow cooker for extra flavour
  • Once that is added to slow cooker, add the rest of the stock and more pepper and a little more salt (how much seasoning is up to you) add the mushrooms and thyme and give a stir.
  • Cook for 6 hours on LOW
  • Once cooked, usually when meat is tender and carrots also, spoon some liquid from slow cooker, roughly a cups worth out into a small pot and heat up with the cornflour (stirring frequently until a little thick)
  • You can use a small sieve to put the thickening mix into slow cooker to help remove any clumps
  • Add spinach and stir through, and cook it for another 15-25 minutes.
  • I served this over a garlic mash (potatoes cooked with 2 cloves of garlic) and with buttered pane de casa bread, also can sprinkle a little fresh chopped flat leaf parsley on top as garnish.
  • Note: You can add more onion if you like, can also add more thyme, I did add probably about a tsp more of fresh thyme to the thickening mix while cooking it.
Keyword Beef casserole