This easy Crock Pot Pepper steak is made with tender beef strips, peppers, onion and a tomato based sauce. The flavor is amazing!
CROCK POT PEPPER STEAK
I think this is another one of those dishes that people love or don’t love. You either like peppers or you don’t, right? There never seems to be a middle ground for this veggie. I happen to love red and green peppers. My husband, not so much. But this is a dish I grew up with and so I love it. And anytime I can serve something over rice, I am all over it.
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WHAT DO I SERVE WITH PEPPER STEAK?
I’m just gonna have to work on getting these boys to love peppers as much as I do. The bonus of making this in the crock pot is because you are cooking this meat low and slow, it comes out much more tender than just doing it on the stovetop. Serve it on top of rice or in flour tortillas as fajitas. Also, this Grilled Chili Lime Corn tastes amazing with this pepper steak.
INGREDIENTS NEEDED:
vegetable oil
round steak or sirloin tip steak
garlic powder
salt & pepper
beef bouillon
hot water
cornstarch
stewed tomatoes, with liquid
red pepper flakes
teriyaki (or soy sauce)
sugar
green pepper
red pepper
small yellow onion
Cook’s Tips: Remember when cutting steak to always cut against the grain for the most tender cut of meat. Also, you could use london broil or flank steak for this. If you want the sauce in this to be thicker, just add another cornstarch slurry (at the end) to it. Mix a tbsp. of water with a tbsp. of cornstarch. Add to the crock pot, stir, then turn on high and cook until thickened. Short on time? Just purchase fajita meat so the beef is already cut for you!
HOW TO MAKE CROCK POT PEPPER STEAK:
Heat up vegetable oil in a large skillet over high heat. You want to get that oil heated up so that it is screaming hot. Pat beef strips with paper towel. Season strips of beef with garlic powder and salt and pepper. Carefully add in strips of beef to the hot pan.
Brown beef strips on both sides. They should be sizzling when you put them in there. It should only take about a minute per side. Do not cook through, just brown the outside. You’ll need to do this a couple of batches of beef at a time. Don’t try to cram them all in the pan at one time. They won’t brown if you do that.
Once they are all browned, transfer beef to crock pot. In a small bowl, crush and mix bouillon cube with hot water until dissolved. Then stir in cornstarch until dissolved. Pour into the crock pot with meat. Stir in stewed tomatoes. Then add in red pepper flakes, teriyaki (or soy sauce) and sugar. Give it all a stir. Then cover and cook on on low for about 6 hours.
During the last hour of cooking, add in the sliced peppers and onions.
Cover and cook for additional hour. Serve over rice. Or serve in tortillas.
Originally published: January 2013
Updated & Republished: March 2019
Crock Pot Pepper Steak
Ingredients
- 2 tbsp vegetable oil
- 2 lbs round steak or sirloin tip steak, cut into 1-inch strips
- 1 tsp garlic powder
- salt and pepper, to taste
- 1 beef bouillon cube
- 1/4 cup hot water
- 1 tbsp cornstarch
- 1 (15 oz) can stewed tomatoes, with liquid
- 3 tbsp teriyaki or soy sauce
- 1/2 tsp red pepper flakes
- 1 teaspoon sugar
- 1 large green pepper, cut into strips
- 1 large red pepper, cut into strips
- 1 small yellow onion, sliced
Instructions
- Heat up vegetable oil in a large skillet over high heat. You want to get that oil heated up. It should be screaming hot.
- Season strips of beef with garlic powder, salt and pepper.
- Carefully place half the beef strips into hot pan. Brown beef strips on both sides. They should be sizzling when you put them in the pan. It should only take about a minute per side. Do not cook through, just brown the outside.
- Continue with the other half of the beef strips.
- Once they are all browned, transfer beef to crock pot.
- In a small bowl, crush and mix bouillon cube with hot water until dissolved. Then stir in cornstarch until dissolved. Pour this slurry into the crock pot with the beef.
- Add stewed tomatoes, red pepper flakes, Teriyaki (or soy) sauce and sugar.
- Give it all a quick stir. Then cover and cook on on low for 6 to 8 hours.
- During the last hour of cooking, add in your sliced peppers and onions.
- Cover and cook for additional hour.
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I love recipes like this!
It sounds so good, and easy to make too. =)
Im pinning to save, thanks!
Eating this now. OMG, this is so darned good with a perfect blend of spices along with tenderness to the meat. Thank you!
This is one of my favorite foods. Unfortunately, the green peppers do me in. So, instead of red and green peppers, I use red and orange or yellow peppers. They don't cause the stomach distress that the green ones do. The taste is a bit milder, too.
Love steak and peppers and this recipe sounds so easy and yummy! Can't wait to try it!
Looks great! You should try it using Oyster sauce about 4oz, and omit the canned tomatoes and the teriyaki.10 to 15 minutes before serving cut up one fresh tomatoe and some broccoli florets, let it cook on top. You can also make it with chicken.
Wanna try this, looks yummy, but how many does it serve?
Where is your print recipe place?
If you click on the blue words above that say "Printable Recipe Here", it will take you to a copy of the recipe that you can print 🙂
don’t see that but do see a print place inside the recipe square; going to try it
i made this recipe and i have to say that it was great , everyone loved it ,, THANK YOU
Thank you for letting me know how it turned out Riham! So happy to hear it was a hit!
tried this recipe ,, awesome , everyone loved it . THANK YOU
If using beef broth how much would u use instead of the bouillon cube.. thank u the crock pot recipes i am a first timer trying these … the pot roast i made in my crock pot was awesome… my family loved it..
Hi Rochelle! Just substitute the 1/4 cup hot water and beef bouillon for 1/4 cup beef broth. Hope that helps!
MMMM good made this for dinner last night had a few chuck steaks could not figure out what to do with them so viloa'. My family loved it my 3 yr old wanted 2nds and 3rds of just "chicken" thats what she calls all meat. I made rice and noodles though cause some wanted noodles and I wanted rice. Will for sure make this again. Thank you for sharing. Oh and had to say was a perfect amount for a family of 7 with left overs.
I'm trying this tomorrow, Brandi! Thanks!
I made this for dinner tonight and it was delicious! One of the best recipes I've found thus far on pinterest.
Love this recipe! I add the peppers and onions at the same time as the meat. It gives the meat and juices a wonderful flavor!!
yum
At the end of the cooking process, when it's done, I add a can of chop suey vegetables to it also. And let it heat for 5 minutes. My husband likes this over boiled potatoes. I love the rice. Yummy. I also add worcestershire sauce. (Funny, spell check says Worcestershire is spelled wrong but that's how it is on the bottle)!
how would I make using chicken
This was very good and easy to make, but found it a little bland. Besides adding extra red pepper flakes, any ideas to spice it up some? Guess we are used to more spice here in the south 🙂
Someone above added the peppers and onions at the same time as the meat for more flavor.
Add some red wine to it.it will be delicious!!!!
This looks great! Going to try it this week but dont like stewed tomatoes what can I replace instead?
I'm the same I'm going to try tomato juice.?
Did it still turn out okay with the tomato sauce?
I'm thinking a few jalapeno and cayenne peppers chopped up and added to this would really bring up the zing.
Is there any way to make this on the stovetop? I don't have a crockpot 🙁
It's a great excuse to get one. You will be glad you did.
Very nice, this look so delicious, thanks for sharing this recipe.
Simon
Love your page! Marie
Great easy meal. I used yellow and red peppers instead of green. Added 2 stalks of celery chopped and about a pound of fresh mushrooms. Also about a cup of chicken broth when I added the veggies. No soy sauce. Used london broil cut into thin slices. The meat broke apart more than I would have liked, it was still a great meal. Served over egg noodles.
I am very disappointed that I can't print the recipe. I just upgraded to Windows 10 and have always been able to print from this website before. It sounds wonderful so will try to copy it with pen and paper. 🙁
I wonder if you got your print issues worked out by now; we “just” now upgraded to Windows 10 and I was concerned; it’s taken some getting used to, but were you not able to print using the print button?
I really liked this recipe! I followed it through and it was really good! I did add a little extra pepper at the end! Very good!
This was delicious… Thank you for sharing!!!
How many servings does this recipe make? Sounds Delicious.
I have made this before and have this in the crockpot now. My husband and I love this recipe! I follow it exactly and always comes out sooo good
So glad you and your family enjoy it as much as we do. You can't get much easier!
This looks so good!
This Was Absolutely Delicious!!!!! Followed recipe exactly (Ok fine, I added extra onions because I like onions) and it was Perfect!
Can you cook it on high in the crockpot as well
I love pepper steak and have always done it on the stove top, but love the idea of doing it in the slow cooker. What size slow cooker do you recommend..
Can you substitute for Soy Sauce or Terriyaki Sauce?allergies
Soy sauce is much more salty than teriyaki and a lot thinner. Have you tried making your own teriyaki sauce? I have a recipe for it here if you want to give it a try 🙂
https://www.thecountrycook.net/2017/02/fast-easy-chicken-teriyaki-bowls.html
Has anyone done this in the instant pot? Crock Pot Pepper Steak
How long & what pressure?
Can you please tell me if this freezes well? Trying to get ahead for back to school meals. Thank you!
How would you convert this for the instant pot? Anyone know? I love my instant pot, but have never tried converting anything. I’m thinking saute and pressure the meat then add the peppers and onions and pressure a little longer? How long though?
Great recipe! Made it for a large pot luck dinner and it went fast. Everyone loved it!
Excellent, the whole family loved it. My slow cooker runs hot so it was done in 5 hours.
This is great to hear Cheryl! Thank you for taking the time to come back and comment!!
Absolutely love this recipe also made with pork loin pieces very good
Hi Brenda!! So, so happy to hear that! I also enjoy hearing other meats that work with this recipe! 🙂
Ive tried many recipes hoping to love it .. only to be disappointed. Finally I found in worthy of being as good as Grandma’s. LOVE IT.
That almost made me cry to read that, Anna! Nothing is ever as good as Mommas or Grandma’s but it is always so wonderful to hear when a recipe comes close to what you remember! Thank you or taking the time to come back and comment!
My whole family loves this one and ask for it regularly. I do have to double it for my family to get all that they want and have a lil leftover. I made it for my dad who was very ill and barely eating, and he ask for it again a few days later. He said I should sell that stuff lol. Its definitely a keeper.
Hi Deedee! Thank you so very much for coming back to review! So happy the whole family loves it!!
Was so easy and delicious. My husband is not a pepper person but loved it.
This recipe turned out just great, served it to a few friends and they loved it
I’m trying your crockpot beef and noodles today. I’ve never used Better than Boullion before. It smells yummy! (The roast is in the crockpot now so I haven’t tried it yet). I wonder why you don’t use for the Crockpot Pepper Steak which I will be trying. I can’t wait to explore your site more.
I am making this today I use a round steak that I had tenderized next time I believe I won’t have it tenderized or used to sirloin steak I only use two tablespoons of soy sauce as I have high blood pressure have to watch the salt. And I will be serving it over rice I put the last tablespoon of soy sauce in that while it cooks. I passed this recipe on to my sister and daughter and highly recommended it. Thank you so much it was very good PS I left out the sugar also I didn’t think it really needed it and I’m glad I did not use the sugar This is delicious as is!
Debra, thank you so much for such a thoughtful and wonderful comment! I really appreciate you mentioning the adjustments you made too. Your comment may really help others who have similar questions. So happy you enjoyed this one!