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

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

• Preparation Time: 20 mins
• Cooking Time: 6 hr
• Total Time: 6 hr 20 mins
• Calories: 359 Calories

Ingredients

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

Recipe Instructions

Step 1

Season beef with garlic salt, salt, and pepper.

Step 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.

Step 3

Discard bay leaves before serving.