Tuesday, December 4, 2012

Mama's Swiss Steak

This Swiss Steak Recipe is my family's favorite. Growing up, my father would ask my mother to make it almost every week. I'm sure my mom didn't mind because not only does it satisfy those comfort food taste buds, but it is so extremely simple to make. Unfortunately, I don't have a picture of the meal when it was done. We ate it to quickly for me to snap one. Anyway, here's what you need.

-Crock Pot or slow cooker
-cube steak or round steak that has been tenderized. For this recipe I bought two packages of cube steak. Each package had three large pieces of steak in it.
-1 Family size can of Campbell's Cream of Mushroom soup.
-1tbsp butter
-1tbsp vegetable oil
-1tbsp flour
-salt and pepper
-1 large onion
-1/2 cup water


Cut your onion in slices then pull apart the layers.  Keep the layers in large chunks like this. 
Fill the bottom of your slow cooker with the onions.
Salt and pepper both sides of each piece of meat. I also pound the meat a little more, even tho it is already tenderized. It makes me feel better. 
Melt butter and oil in pan over med/low heat
Start browning the meat. I cook it enough so both sides are brown but the juices still run a little pink.
Keep the meat you have browned in a dish for later.
When all the meat is browned, add water to the pan and  scrape the bottom to get all that yummy goodness off the pan.
Mix in the soup.
Be careful mixing. I had a full pan!
Put a layer of meat in the slow cooker over the onions
Sprinkle a little flour over the meat.
Then, spoon a layer of the gravy mixture over the meat.
Repeat the layers of meat, flour, and gravy until you use it all up. 
Cover and cook on high for 5 hours. If I'm home while the meat is cooking, every so often I shake the  slow cooker a little bit. BE CAREFUL! Doing this helps the meat around the edges not to get too done. It just loosens it up a bit. 







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