Get out your crockpot; the weather’s turning hot! Thanks to your crockpot, you can cook a hot meal without heating up the whole house!

Slow-cooked pepper jelly steak strips are delicious, nutritious, and easy to fix.  Add some rice or noodles and you have an entire family meal!

Ingredients:

• 2 pounds beef round steak, cut into strips
• 1/4 cup soy sauce
• 1 cup chopped onion
• 1 garlic clove, minced
• 1 teaspoon sugar or Splenda
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1/4 teaspoon pepper
• 1/4 teaspoon ground ginger
• 4 tomatoes, cut into eighths, or 1 can (16 oz.) tomatoes with liquid, cut up
• 2 large green peppers, cut into strips
• 1 large red pepper, cut into strips
• 1 peach, peeled and cut up, or 1 can of peaches, with juice, cut up
• 1/4 cup Peachy Peach Rib Candy
• 1/4 cup cold water
• 1 tablespoon cornstarch
• Cooked rice or noodles

What to do:

Dump everything except the water, cornstarch, and noodles or rice into your crockpot. Definitely don’t forge the Rib Candy grilling sauce – it is a key component. Cover and cook on low for about 6 hours, until the meat is tender.  Combine the cornstarch and cold water to make a paste, and stir it into the slow cooker. Turn the crockpot to high and cook for about a half-hour longer, or until thickened.

Serve over noodles or rice.

The TPJ family likes this over brown rice.