Mouth-Watering Beef Tips with Mushroom Gravy

A fork-tender beef slow-cooked to perfection is one of the most satisfying and delectable comfort food options. If you incorporate a flavorful, savory mushroom sauce/gravy? Nothing else could really compete with this beef tips recipe!

This dish is the epitome of comfort food, especially when served with mashed potatoes. However, a whole roast may not always be ideal for your typical meal because it can be a little pricey and provide you with more portions than you actually want.

Check below everything you need to learn about one of the yummiest family dinner ideas!

1. Ultimate Comfort Food

In addition to being incredibly affordable, beef tips are an extreme cut that cooks well over low heat, making them extremely tender.

In this beef tips recipe, the beef is simmered in a delicious mushroom sauce that only requires a few pantry staples and doesn’t call for quick fixes like flavor packs or cans of soup. This indicates that there is nothing greater than authentic homemade family dinner ideas.

2. Two Possible Kitchen Appliances

You can find directions for both high-pressure cooking and slow cooking below. The beef tips cooked using either method turn out tender and mouthwatering.

The Instant Pot will finish this for you a few hours earlier and allow you to brown your meat and prepare your onions in the pressure cooker.

However, the slow cooker version may have a slightly better texture than the pressure cooker one. Regardless of which one of the kitchen appliances you will opt for, the outcome will certainly be delectable.

3. Beef Searing

Although you can theoretically forgo searing the sirloin beef tips, home chefs strongly advise doing so because it adds a flavor that slow-cooking alone cannot match. The true cooking begins once the meat begins to brown and the onions are tender.

This simply entails adding pepperoncini, beef broth, Worcestershire sauce, sliced cremini mushrooms, and some spices and herbs, such as thyme plant leaves, dried rosemary herb, a beef bouillon cube (See the ingredients below), to the cooking gadget you opted for.

4. Slow Cooking Wonders

Cooking requires 35 minutes of high-pressure in the Instant Pot. Yet, it takes around 3 hours on the high setting or 6 hours on the lowest setting in the slow cooker.

In either case, you’ll have the most delicious gravy with the tenderest, luscious beef that will have folks pleading with you to prepare it once more after the first mouthful.

Ingredients

• 3 spoonfuls melted butter
• 2 lbs. sirloin beef tips
• 2 spoonfuls plain flour
• 1 diced white onion
• 8 oz. cut cremini mushrooms
• 2 spoonfuls garlic powder
• 1 spoonful onion powder
• Dried thyme and rosemary leaves
• 1 beef bouillon cube
• 1 spoonful Worcestershire sauce
• 1 bay leaf
• ½ cup pepperoncini slices
• 2 cups of beef broth
• 2 spoonfuls corn starch
• Black pepper and seasoning salt.

Preparation

• Rub flour over the cut of meat after seasoning it with salt and pepper.
• Add the melted butter to a big saucepan over high heat.
• Add the sirloin beef tips in sections and cook them until browned and crispy on every side.
• Transfer to a platter and keep searing the meat until it’s done.
• Add the chopped onion and simmer for a mere two minutes or so, scooping up any bits from the pan’s bottom with a spatula.

Choosing the Slow Cooker

• Add the mushrooms, dried thyme and rosemary, bouillon cube, Worcestershire sauce, bay leaf, pepperoncini, and two cups of beef broth to the slow cooker along with the browned beef and onion.
• Cook, covered, for 3 to 4 hours on the highest setting or 6–7 hours on the low.
• Stir corn starch into three tablespoons of water about half an hour before the cooking period ends and pour into the slow cooker.
• For the final thirty minutes of cooking, keep it covered. Taste and appreciate the seasoning!

Choosing the Instant Pot / Pressure Cooker

• Re-return the meat to the Instant Pot along with the onions, then add the ingredients mentioned above.
• Shut the lid and choose the « Meat/Stew » option. Cook for 35 minutes under intense pressure.
• Following the completion of the cooking process, allow the rising pressure to naturally dissipate for ten minutes before turning the valve that releases pressure to « venting » to let out any residual air.
• Activate the « Sauté » option. Add corn starch to three tablespoons of water and mix it into the Instant Pot’s liquid mixture.
• Stir until the gravy starts to thicken, then add salt and pepper to taste.

Relish the yummiest beef tips recipe ever!