Lazy Pepper Steak

 

When I was growing up, my mom would make what she called “pepper steak”. Instead of using sliced beef, she used ground beef. (I may have the original recipe on here.) I made it the same way for years, but now with some health issues it’s hard for me to stand so this is a super easy recipe that the family still loves!

Lazy Pepper Steak

Ingredients:

1# cooked ground beef

2 bags frozen 3 pepper and onions

4 brown gravy packets 

Italian seasoning

Salt and pepper

Prepared white rice (about 6 cups or so)

Directions:

1. Add your hamburger to the crockpot.

2. Add both bags of veggies to the crock pot.

3. In a 4 cup measuring cup, add 3 cups of water and the 4 packets of gravy. Mix well.

4. Pour the gravy mixture over the veggies in the crockpot. Sprinkle the top with a good amount of Italian seasoning, salt, and pepper.

5. Cook on low for 1.5-2 hours. Stir the mixture and taste if it needs more seasoning.

6. Serve over the steamed white rice. Enjoy!

Notes: 

*I cook 5# of hamburger in the crockpot and then put in quart sized zip baggies equaling about 1 pound each and save them in the freezer and pull one out as I need it. So for this recipe I put the frozen hamburger in the crockpot frozen.

*You could also use ground chicken or turkey as well.

*If the meat mixture is too thick, add some water to thin it out or you could use two more gravy packets to make it more gravy-ish. 

*You can also serve over brown rice or any other rice you prefer.