Kelly's Slow Cooker Beef, Mushroom, and Barley Soup

Prep time: 20 min
Cook time: 360 min
Servings: 6
Yield: 6 servings

Description

Traditional beef, barley, and mushroom soup in the slow cooker.

Ingredients

2 pounds beef sirloin, cut into chunks
1/4 teaspoon garlic salt, or to taste
salt and ground black pepper to taste
1 (32 ounce) carton beef stock
1 (8 ounce) can tomato sauce
1 cup water
1 cup barley
3/4 cup diced carrots
1 (6 ounce) package sliced fresh mushrooms
1/2 medium onion, diced
4 cloves garlic, minced
2 large bay leaves

Directions

1 Season beef with garlic salt, salt, and pepper.
2 Place seasoned beef into a slow cooker with stock, tomato sauce, water, barley, carrots, mushrooms, onion, garlic, and bay leaves. Stir to combine, then cover and cook on Low until soup thickens and beef is tender, about 6 hours.
3 Discard bay leaves before serving.