Recipe for the day ~ Peppered Steak in a Crock Pot

Slow Cooked Pepper Steak

Ingredients:

1 ½ - 2 lbs beef round steak, trimmed of fat cut into 3”x1” strips (sometimes you may be able to find them in your meat dept already sliced and packaged)

2 Tbpsn Canola oil

¼ cup soy sauce

1 garlic clove, minced

1 cup onions, chopped

1 tspn sugar

¼ tspn pepper

¼ tspn ginger

2 large green peppers, cut into strips

4 medium tomatoes cut in eights or 16 oz can of diced tomatoes

½ cup cold water

1 Tbpsn cornstarch

Directions:

Brown beef in oil in a saucepan

Transfer to crock pot

Combine soy sauce, garlic, onions, sugar, pepper and ginger

Pour over meat

Cover and cook on low 5-6 hours

Add green peppers and tomatoes

Cook for 1 hour longer

Combine water and cornstarch to make paste

Stir in crock pot

Cook on high for about 10 minutes longer until sauce thickens

Serve over rice or noodles