Kelly’s Slow Cooker Beef, Mushroom, and Barley Soup

Description

I tinkered with a few recipes and came up with this one. I have tinkered with this recipe and added celery once and leeks another time, for me all it did was add to the chunkiness, not the flavor; but that’s really up to your preference.

Ingredients

  • 1 (32 ounce) carton beef stock
  • 1 (8 ounce) can tomato sauce
  • 1 cup water
  • ½ onion, diced
  • ¾ cup diced carrots
  • 1 cup barley
  • 1 (6 ounce) package sliced fresh mushrooms
  • 4 cloves garlic, minced
  • 2 pounds beef sirloin, cut into chunks
  • 1 pinch garlic salt, or to taste
  • salt and ground black pepper to taste
  • 2 bay leaves

Instructions

  1. Stir beef stock
  2. tomato sauce
  3. water
  4. onion
  5. carrot
  6. barley
  7. mushrooms
  8. and garlic together in a slow cooker.
  9. Season beef chunks with garlic salt
  10. salt
  11. and black pepper; add to the beef stock mixture. Add bay leaves to the slow cooker.
  12. Cook on Low until the soup thickens and the beef is tender
  13. about 6 hours.
  14. Remove and discard the bay leaves to serve.

Prep Time: 20 mins

Cook Time: 6 hrs

Total Time: 6 hrs 20 mins

Servings: 6

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