Crockpot Hammered Steak and Gravy

This is a double post. I've made this hammer steak and gravy in the crock-pot a few different times now, and everyone likes it. I like it because this type of steak is cheap, I don't actually know the real name of it, but it's the pieces of beef that they hammer flat and thin. The original recipe calls for cube steak - and I have no idea what that actually is because nothing in our grocery stores is called that. I love to serve this over rice too, and spoon on extra gravy - it's so good. There is lots of sauce left over, so you could add more meat in then the 8 called for. I also only had half a pkg of onion soup mix. Onion soup mix is next on my list of things to make my own mix of.  This recipe is super easy to make, it's all dumped into the crock-pot and left to do its thing.

Today however I didn't have a single can of cream of anything soup. So, I looked up how to make my own. And it turned out great, no one noticed that it wasn't was from a can. They did notice that there were no little chunks of mushroom, and one noticed that there was a different spice in there. I didn't have dried onion so I tossed in a bit of chopped up onion that I had. I liked it as well and I like even more that there is no MSG in it. MSG gives me such a wicked headache. Honestly even from the picture you can't tell that it's not from a can. I'm glad that the recipe makes a bunch of the mix. And that you can add whatever you want to it, chicken, celery mushrooms.....

Crock-pot Hammered Steak and Gravy

family pkg - hammered flat steak
2 cans - cream of mushroom soup
1 envelop onion soup mix
3/4 cup - water
salt & pepper to taste

Place all ingredients in crockpot and give a stir. Cook on low all day. Serve over rice, noodles, or mashed potatoes.


Cream of Whatever Soup

2 cups - milk powder
3/4 cup - cornstarch
1/4 cup - bouillon (cubes have to be smashed up) I used chicken
4 tbsp - freeze dried minced onion
1 tsp - dried basil
1 tsp - dried thyme
1 tsp - dried parsley
1 tsp - pepper
dash of salt

Mix all together and store in an airtight container. 1/3 cup dry mix with 1 1/4 cup cold water = 1 can. Add mix to cold water and whisk together, cook until it's as thick as you want it.

Rating:
*****/5 - for both recipes

Hammered Steak & Cream of Whatever Soup in the middle of cooking