Braising beef, cut into meaty chunks, slow cooked in a well-seasoned gravy and served over rice or egg noodles.

Crockpot Beef Tips and Rice

If you have a meat eater in your family, they will love these beef tips and so will you since the slow cooker does the cooking.

You may recall that earlier this summer after some prompting by the Facebook family, I invested in a newer slow cooker hoping to put together some easy meals.

Well, so far I've still not experimented enough to become a big fan of chicken in a crockpot, but there's one thing for sure, besides an excellent way to make a cheater pulled pork for sandwiches, it sure does come in handy for beef roasts doesn't it?

Spicy Crockpot Italian Style Drip Beef for Sandwiches

A nice, spicy beef made in the crockpot with giardiniera and golden peperoncini, finished with sauteed sweet peppers, onions and provolone cheese & passed under the broiler to melt.

Spicy Crockpot Italian Beef

An Italian beef is a sandwich believed to have originated in Chicago, made of thin slices of highly seasoned beef, dripping with meat juices, and served on an Italian roll.

First, let's get this out of the way. Like all regional foods that I prepare and share here on Deep South Dish that originate from other parts of the country, this recipe is not meant to be representative of an authentic or even traditional Chicago style Italian beef in any way, shape or form. It's just a beef roast braised in broth, peppers, onions, and Italian seasonings, that makes a pretty darned good Italian Beef drip sandwich. Let's just agree to settle on calling my sandwich "inspired."