Crock Pot Tri Tip with Mushrooms and Dutch Potatoes

I totally scored on the Ranchers Reserve meat sale at Safeway last week, but seem to forget to defrost the meat, so I wanted to make a tri tip today and at 1pm it was frozen solid...so to make a short story even shorter, I went the route of the crock pot.  the meat was SUPER tender and the flavor was delicous.

 

 

Crock Pot Tri Tip with Mushrooms and Dutch Potatoes

• Tri tip
• 4 cups of beef stock
• 4 cups of water
• 2 cups sliced mushrooms
• 10-15 small potatoes
• salt and pepper
• 1/4 cup melted butter
• 21 Seasoning mix from Trader Joes
• 1tbspn flour
• 1/2 cup milk
• 1/4 cup grated parmesean cheese

 

 

Place your tri tip, fat side down, in your crockpot, salt and pepper meat, sprinkle seasoning, add potatoes, mushrooms, beef stock and butter.  Add water until meat is completely covered and vegetables are almost covered. Cook on high for about 4.5 hours.  The rest is optional, but I like it this way.

Remove tri tip and and trim off all fat, reseason.  Remove veggies and 1/2 liquid.  Take 1 cup of remaining liquid and mix in flour and milk, add to liquid in crockpot. Put meat and veggies back in for lower heat to low and continue cooking for 1 more hour.  To serves, slice meat, pour mushroom gravy on top, place potaoes around and sprinkle potaotes with parmesean cheese, salt and pepper.