This easy crock pot low carb, gluten free meal for Salisbury Steak is perfect for any weeknight dinner! Top with mushrooms and gravy over mashed cauliflower for a complete meal!
Once the season of fall hits, Slow Cooker recipes are all I can think about. I want comfort and I want it done for me with ease! Crock Pots are made for stress free living and I use mine in every season, but fall is my favorite. There's just nothing better than doing a little prep in the morning, leaving for the day and coming home to amazing smells of your dinner waiting for you!
Salisbury steak is a comforting meal whether made in the slow cooker or not. My original recipe was not made for the crock pot nor was it low carb, so I decided to do some tweaking to the recipe and make it especially for an easy weeknight meal. It's one of the best of the best meals for a family. No complaints from my kids, except the mushrooms. They all hate mushrooms, but hubby and I love them so they just need to pick them out, no big deal.
I served this over creamy mashed cauliflower. If you've never tried creamy mashed cauliflower in place of mashed potatoes, it's worth your time and believe me, the picky family still loves it even though they know it's made with cauliflower.
Steam your cauliflower till tender, add butter, some cheese and seasonings and you've got a fabulous low carb mock mashed potato!
Sprinkle a little chopped fresh parsley and call it done!
Brenda's Notes:
- You could use gluten free or traditional bread crumbs in place of crushed pork rinds but to lower the carbs, crushed pork rinds is the way to go. Flaxseed adds fiber and is really good for you!
- You could skip the mushrooms if you're not a fan.
- Arrowroot powder is what will thicken the gravy. You could use cornstarch if you don't have any arrowroot powder.
Slow Cooker Low Carb Salisbury Steak
Ingredients
- 2 teaspoon olive oil
- 1 cup chopped onion
- 2 pounds grass fed ground beef
- ¼ cup ground flaxseed
- 1 cup crushed pork rinds
- ½ teaspoon onion powder
- ½ teaspoon salt
- ¼ teaspoon pepper
- 2 eggs
- 2 cups low sodium beef broth divided
- 8 ounces baby bella mushrooms
Gravy
- 2 tablespoon arrowroot powder
- 2 tablespoon tomato paste
- 1 tablespoon red wine vinegar
- 1 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce
- 1 teaspoon ground dried mustard
- 1 teaspoon garlic powder
Instructions
- Heat your oil in a large skillet and cook onion until tender and browned.
- Add onion to ground beef in a large bowl along with ground flaxseed, crushed pork rinds, salt, pepper and eggs.
- Pour in a ½ cup of broth and mix meat to combine well. Form 8 oval patties and place in the bottom of the crock pot. Top with mushrooms.
- To the remaining broth add the gravy ingredients and stir well.
- Pour this over the patties in the slow cooker and cover for 3 hours on high or 6 hours on low.
Nutrition
About Brenda
Brenda Bennett is a certified Nutritional Therapy Practitioner, certified Sugar Detox Coach, certified Keto Coach and certified Life Coach. She has been Sugar Free & Refined carb free for 17 years and has written 2 cookbooks, Sugar-Free Mom, and Naturally Keto and her 3rd book The 30-Day Sugar Elimination Diet, is a four part program to help you detox from sugar, eliminate cravings, balance blood sugar and lose weight all while eating a delicious, nutrient dense whole foods. Meal plan offers two tracks to follow, low carb or keto. She is the founder of the Sugar Free Fresh Start course and Sugar Free Tribe weight loss membership. Learn more.
C.C.
Hi thank you for this recipe. I'm new to all this & I'm not even sure if this blog is effective active anymore but I just waved to reach to to ask if there's anything I can use instead of arrowroot for the gravy of I don't really want to use any type of starch
Also, is there something else I can use that's lower carb in place of the Worcestershire Sauce? And finally, ate the flax seeds necessary or can I substitute those for anything? I can't really have any nuts or seeds. THANK YOU SO MUCH.
Brenda
This website is active, I am the blogger. I have an updated lower carb keto version of this recipe here; https://www.sugarfreemom.com/recipes/keto-salisbury-steak-with-onion-gravy/
Brenda Peeler
This recipe is delicious! Even my husband liked it and he doesn't like anything he thinks is diet/healthy....I didn't make it in a crockpot, I just made it in my cast iron skillet on the stovetop with a lid for most of the cooking time. I used hot n spicy pork rinds and it didn't change the flavor much but did give it added dimension. Definately a keeper!
Tanya
I found this while looking for a gluten free recipe. While the ground pork rinds sound intriguing, I wonder about the gluten freeness of the Worcestershire sauce. Is your Worcestershire gluten free? What brand do you recommend? If it's not gluten free, do you have an idea of a substitute?
Brenda
Its not cheap but it is gluten free. http://amzn.to/2fqHKBi
Holly Cowan
I am just starting to learn to cook. Am I understanding correctly that I add a cooked onion to raw meat? How big are the patties? Can they overlap in the bottom of the crock pot? I don't think I can fit eight patties in the bottom of my crockpot.
Brenda
Yes raw onion, yes overlap patties or put a few on top of the ones on the bottom.
Susan
is there anything I could use to sub the ground pork rinds?
Brenda
I think if you can use almond flour that would work as well, my youngest has a tree nut allergy, also the pork rinds were taking the place of breadcrumbs.