Slow Cooked Sweet and Sour Beef

This easy slow cooked sweet and sour beef recipe lists round steak, green peppers, brown sugar, and pineapple among it’s ingredients.

What you need:

• 2.5 lbs round steak, trimmed of fat and cut into fajita like strips
  
• 2 large onions, sliced
  
• 20 oz can unsweetened pineapple chunks, juice reserved
  
• 1/2 c beef broth
  
• 2 green peppers, chopped
  
• 2 large tomatoes, chopped
  
• 6 T red wine vinegar
  
• 1 garlic clove, minced
  
• 1 t imported sweet paprika
  
• 3 T brown sugar
  
• 1 t salt
  
• 1/8 t black pepper
  
• 1.5 T cornstarch
  
• 2 T soy sauce
  
• 2 T water
  

What you do:

• In a 3.5 to 4 quart crock pot, combine the beef, onions, pineapple juice, broth, vinegar, garlic, paprika, salt and black pepper and mix.
• Cook, covered, for 6 hours on low.
  
• Increase heat to high.  
• Stir in the green pepper and brown sugar.  
• Mix together the cornstarch, water and soy sauce.  
• Pour cornstarch mixture into the crock pot while stirring.  
• Cook covered for 30 minutes, stirring occasionally.  
• Add tomatoes and pineapple to crock pot and mix.  
• Serve by itself, over noodles or rice.