Cheater Vegetable Beef Soup (crock Pot)

Total Time: 4 hrs 15 mins Preparation Time: 15 mins Cook Time: 4 hrs

Ingredients

• Servings: 10
• 2 lbs lean stew meat
• 2 lbs frozen mixed vegetables
• 2 (15 ounce) cans canned diced potatoes (drained)
• 1 (15 ounce) can tomato sauce
• 1 (1 ounce) packet lipton onion soup mix
• 2 cups water

Recipe

• 1 dice stew meat and brown on stove.
• 2 place frozen vegetables, and drained potatoes in crock pot.(before turning it on or you could crack the crock).
• 3 turn crock pot on.
• 4 once meat is browned, deglaze the pan with a cup of cold water and pour meat and resulting fluid onto the vegetables.
• 5 pour tomato sauce over the top of everything.
• 6 mix onion soup packet with 1 cup of water and pour on top.
• 7 you can mix the ingredients at this point, but it isn't necessary.
• 8 cook on high for several hours (4-6) or low for 8-10 hours.
• 9 salt and pepper to taste, being careful not to over-season. the tomato sauce intensifies both the salt and pepper flavors, and the onion soup contains salt already.