Slow Cooker Beef & Broccoli

Skip take out and still have dinner ready when you get home with this slow cooker beef and broccoli recipe.

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The other day I spotted a 2.5 quart crock pot in a sale bin at Kroger. For $9.99. With purple polka dots! With my need for a smaller crock pot, minimal funds, and love for purple it’s like it was meant to be mine and therefore I swiped it up and purchased it (and heck yea for extra gas points). Hopefully cooking smaller volume recipes in this smaller crock pot will solve my issue with things cooking too fast in my larger 5 quart one, although it still lacks a timer setting on it so I will still have to depend on my plug timer.

Unfortunately, I bought the 2.5 quart crock pot after making this recipe the first time, so originally I could not report on it’s functionality. So as usual for my 5 quart crock pot this recipe cooked twice as fast and reinforced the need to adjust the cooking time based on your crock pot’s mannerisms. But cooking time adjustments aside, this was an awesome meal. The beef was tender and the sauce was so good I ended up using every last drop on top of some leftover rice. Yes, I ate just the sauce over some rice because I enjoyed it that much.

Post updated 1/31/2025. Photo above is the original.

But because this slow cooker beef and broccoli recipe was so good, I did end up remaking it in my 2.5 quart slow cooker. I am updating this post to tell you that it worked like a charm and tasted just as good as I remembered. In fact I saved the leftover sauce again and made another random stir fry out of it. Waste not!

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SLOW COOKER BEEF & BROCCOLI

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Yield: 4 Servings Prep Time: 15 Minutes Cooking Time: 6 Hours 30 Minutes 6 Hours 30 Minutes

Nutrition facts: 200 calories 20 grams fat

Ingredients

• 1 lb. boneless, beef chuck roast, sliced into thin strips
• 1 cup beef consumme or beef broth
• 1/2 cup low sodium soy sauce
• 1/3 cup dark brown sugar
• 1 Tbsp sesame oil
• 3 garlic cloves, minced
• 2 Tbsp cornstarch
• 2 cups broccoli florets, cooked
• White rice, cooked

Directions

1. Coat the inside of a 2.5 quart* crockpot with nonstick spray.
2. In the crockpot, whisk together beef consume, soy sauce, dark brown sugar, sesame oil, and garlic.
3. Gently place your slices of beef in the liquid and toss to coat.
4. Turn crockpot on low and cook for 6 hours*.
5. When done, in a small bowl, whisk together cornstarch and 4 tablespoons of the cooking liquid to create a slurry, pour back into crockpot, and stir to mix well. Cook on low for an additional 30 minutes to thicken up the sauce.
6. Serve with broccoli florets over white rice.

Notes

*Cooking times may vary. In my experience, larger 5 quart crock pots cook hot with smaller volumes and only took 3 hours.

Source: Adapted slightly from Table for Two.