Pepper Steak
Comforting easy slow cooked steak with peppers and onions in a tomatoey paprika sauce served over rice. On a cold winter day, or really any day this meal will have your family running to the table!
Why I love pepper steak
Hello. How are you? Is this winter weather getting you down? Don’t get me wrong, the snow is pretty and all, and I am immensely thankful for heat and coats and cupboards full of blankets, but dang, is Spring ever going to get here? Do you find getting dinner on the table easier during the winter months? Or is mealtime equally challenging in your home, no matter the season? I lean on my slow cooker more in the fall and winter months. The smell of dinner cooking all afternoon is comforting, and I love it when the kids come busting in the back door and yell, “YUM! What smells so good?”. Pepper steak is one of my family’s favorite meals, and it’s sure to become a favorite at your table, too! It’s comfortingly spicy and smells wonderful as it’s simmering away in your slow cooker!
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How to make slow cooker pepper steak
Give yourself 15 minutes (max) to prep ingredients and layer them in your slow cooker, and you are home free until dinner time! Kick back, eat bonbons, take a nap, read a book, catch up on episodes of Downton Abby—you’ve got dinner in the bag—er, um, pot!
- Slice round steak across the grain in thin pieces place them in the bottom of your slow cooker.
- Sprinkle steak with salt.
- Layer slices of onion, celery, and peppers over steak.
- In a large measuring cup or bowl combine tomato paste, diced tomatoes, paprika, sugar, water, and red pepper flakes. Whisk together and pour over steak and vegetables.
- Cook on low for 6 hours or high for 4 hours.
- Make rice or wide egg noodles. Serve over rice or noodles.
TIP: It’s easier to slice meat in thin strips when it’s frozen, you just need a nice sharp knife! So if you forgot to take the meat out of the freezer…no worries!
Voila! There you have it! Another dinner dilemma solved! For more easy meal ideas be sure to follow my Dinner Dilemma & Meal Ideas… pinterest boards!
Thanks for using Eat2gather to get dinner on the table for your family, Sheila
Pepper Steak
Equipment
- crock pot or instand pot
Ingredients
- 2 pounds round steak sliced thin across the grain
- 1 tsp salt
- 1 whole red bell pepper cored and sliced
- 1 whole green pepper cored and sliced
- 1 whole yellow or orange pepper cored and sliced
- 1 whole medium sweet onion peeled and cut into thin slices
- 2 whole stalks celery cut into small pieces
- 6 ounces tomato paste
- 14 ounces diced tomatoes
- 1 tbsp sweet paprika
- 1/2 tsp red pepper flakes 1/4 or leave out if you prefer no spice
- 1 tbsp sugar
- 1/2 cup water
- 6 cups cooked rice or noodles
Instructions
- In a 5-7 quart slow cooker, place sliced round steak on the bottom of the dish. Sprinkle with salt.
- Next, layer sliced peppers, onion, and celery over the steak.
- In a medium bowl, mix tomato paste, diced tomatoes, paprika, red pepper flakes, sugar, and water. Pour the mixture over the peppers and onions in the slow cooker.
- Cover and cook on high for 4 hours or on low for 6.
- Serve over cooked rice or wide egg noodles.
Hey Sheila, I tried to leave a comment up there on your pb dessert but couldn’t find where, it may be my phone being weird, but I wanted to say that we aren’t really into valentines day either! Nice to find another scrooge ;). Truth is it’s sandwiched between 2 family birthdays at the end of a two month birthday wave so this mama is a little burnt out (saving the last bit of energy for daughters bday next week)
Another note – this pepper steak? Ok my husband will think it’s valentines day the day I make it! He would love it!!
Aggie, I can’t figure out why the comments are turned off on that post…weird. Maybe Cupid is cursing me! Hahaha! At least you have the birthday excuse, by mother-n-laws birthday is on the 16th does that count? Thanks for being persistent with the comments. xo Sheila
This is brilliant – Rich would LOVE this!! And I’ve never used my slow cooker more in my life!! Babies do that to you. 😉 Hang loose, Liz
I’ve have to admit I’ve been slow to adapt to cooking with my slow cooker. The teen years will make a slow cooker believer out of ya too! xo