9/19/12

Hamburger Steaks with Brown Gravy

The BEST recipe for Hamburger Steaks made from fresh ground beef with an easy, homemade brown gravy.

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Can you think of many things that are better than brown gravy? I would, honest to God, choose a plate of rice and gravy with a side of black-eyed peas and fresh sliced tomatoes over filet mignon. I’m not even kidding.

And, ummm... I'm  not trying to brag or anything but... if there's ONE thing I'm great at, it's making gravy. If they had a cooking competition for gravy, I could win that sucker blind-folded and drunk with one hand tied behind my back.

Making biscuits? Negative. Cooking a steak to the perfect temperature without cutting it to peak inside? Dumb luck if I do. Decorating beautiful cakes with hand-piped icing? No way. But making gravy? Oh yeah, that's my jam.

Hamburger Steaks with Brown Gravy! The BEST recipe for Hamburger Steaks made from fresh ground beef with an easy, homemade brown gravy.

You can make brown gravy from just about any kind of meat that’s cooked to yield pan drippings. I guess that’s why we just call it “brown” gravy because you can’t really pigeonhole it into just beef, pork or chicken gravy.

Sometimes I add onions to this but the white onions I had on-hand were wicked strong and I didn't want to overpower the taste of the gravy. If you want to add onions, just slice a medium onion into rings and add to the pan while you’re searing your hamburger steaks.

If you love gravy, double the recipe below. I always eyeball my roux when making gravy like this. I add enough flour to the pan drippings to make it about the consistency of ketchup, cook the four until light brown then add broth or water, while constantly whisking, until it's the thickness that I'm after.

Hamburger Steaks with Brown Gravy! The BEST recipe for Hamburger Steaks made from fresh ground beef with an easy, homemade brown gravy.

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Hamburger Steaks with Brown Gravy! The BEST recipe for Hamburger Steaks made from fresh ground beef with an easy, homemade brown gravy.

Hamburger Steaks with Brown Gravy

Hamburger Steaks with Brown Gravy
Yield: 4 Servings
Author: Mandy Rivers | South Your Mouth
Prep time: 10 MinCook time: 20 MinTotal time: 30 Min
The BEST recipe for Hamburger Steaks made from fresh ground beef with an easy, homemade brown gravy.

Ingredients

Hamburger Steaks:
  • 1 pound ground beef
  • 1/2 teaspoon salt
  • 1/2 teaspoon pepper
  • 1/2 teaspoon onion powder
  • 1/2 teaspoon garlic powder
  • 2 tablespoons vegetable oil
Brown Gravy:
  • 1/4 cup pan drippings
  • 1/4 cup flour
  • 2 14-oz cans beef broth
  • Salt & pepper to taste

Instructions

Make the steaks:
  1. Crumble ground beef in a medium bowl and add salt, pepper, onion powder and garlic powder; mix by hand until seasoning is evenly distributed taking care not to over-work the meat. Shape ground beef into four thin hamburger steaks (about 1/2 inch thick).
  2. Heat vegetable oil in a frying pan over medium-high heat. Once the pan is good and hot, cook steaks on each side for 4-5 minutes or until nicely seared. Remove steaks to a plate and set aside (do not worry if they are cooked through, they will finish cooking in the gravy).
Make the gravy:
  1. Reduce frying pan temperature to medium. Pour off pan drippings into a cup or bowl, measure 1/4 cup of the drippings then add back to the pan (the hamburgers should yield 1/4 cup of pan drippings but if you’re short, add vegetable oil or butter).
  2. Add flour to pan then whisk to incorporate. Continue cooking and whisking for about 3-5 minutes or until roux is medium brown.
  3. Add beef stock and continue whisking for 2-3 minutes or until gravy starts to thicken a little (gravy will be thin). Add salt and pepper to taste.
  4. Add hamburger steaks to gravy, reduce heat to medium-low then continue cooking, uncovered, for 15-20 minutes or until meat juices run clear and gravy has reduced and thickened.
  5. Serve with white rice or mashed potatoes.
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75 comments:

  1. Add mashed potatoes and veggies...mmmm!

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    1. Recipe was delicious!!!

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  2. Love, love, love Hamburger Steaks. Seriously, I eat Hamburger Steaks at least every other week. It's just good ole comfort food in my book. Thank you for sharing at Weekend Potluck! You know we always love to see what our favorite hooker is whipping up. I just shared on facebook. Have a good weekend!! ~Brandie

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  3. Congrats on having the recipe with the most clicks from last week's Weekend Potluck. These look seriously yummy! My beef loving family will be very pleased when we have these. Looking forward to seeing what you bring this week. Thanks so much for being so faithful to our little party!
    ~Kim
    http://sunflowersupperclub.blogspot.com/2012/09/weekend-potluck-37.html

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  4. Hi Mandy! These hamburger steaks look delicious! I too, am a Southern girl who loves to cook! I don't usually create recipes, just follow others, such as this. Nice to meet you! Blessings from Bama!

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  5. This reminds me of my mum making "salisbury steak" with cube steaks: saute in butter, make a packet of dry gravy mix, and serve with instant mashed potatoes and veg. She was an extraordinary lady though after moving to NY from London she embraced mod cons as did many ladies in the early 60's. Sunday dinners were always a joint of the day: standing rib roast with yorkshire pudding, crown roast of pork, leg of lamb, whole turkey, and the like which provided many leftovers with few poor iterations. Don't remember much ground meat though we did have cube steaks now and then. These DO look good, and the homemade gravy perhaps augmented with mushrooms and herbs will definitely be on the horizon. Hubby likes any kind of meat, and this would go together quickly. Love this country cook weekend potluck as I discover new to me blogs such as yours. Off to subscribe and get more of your lovely recipes.

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  6. Wow, bring back memories! I grew up eating Hamburger Steaks and this looks delicious.

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  7. This looks wonderful! Carrie

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  8. These are wonderful. I make them with 1lb of good beef combined with 1lb of jimmy dean's original sausage, 1 tsp of seasoned salt (lawry's). They are amazing with mashed potatoes, steamed veggies and king's sweet rolls.

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  9. This was so good, and easy! Love your blog, you are hilarious!

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  10. Thank you for linking up!!

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  11. It's been years...need to whip that up. YUM1

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  12. Made this the other night, the only thing I did different to the gravy was add about teaspoon of Kitchen Bouquet and about 4 oz of sliced mushrooms. Good stuff. Thanks.

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    1. Kitchen Bouquet makes the gravy or au jus taste amazing!

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  13. YUM!!!! Another way to do this is instead of adding beef stock, use milk and make cream gravy. Heck, I once ran out of milk and used watered down half and half ;)

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  14. ah my Gawd! i frickin' love hamburger steaks, and people never know what they are! i love mine with A1 or another comparitable (word?) steak sauce.

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  15. I made this the other night for my family and my grown daughter who was over visiting (she lives 5 houses from me) and they were a huge hit. EVERYONE and I mean EVERYONE, even the picky grandson who is not a gravy fan LOVED these. a few nights later my daughter cooked them for her husband and he is now in love with this recipe. Good thing too, cause I think if my daughter had it her way, they would eat them 4+ nights a week. haha.

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  16. I just made this tonight and I think the only thing I changed was I didn't add any flour, just turned up the heat quite a bit to reduce the stock I put in the drippings which made more of a sauce than gravy (which doesn't bother me because I'm not a HUGE fan of gravy all the time). I also sort of eye-balled the seasonings and it came out nummy! I'm always for garlic and onion powder. Thanks for the recipe. =)

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  17. Just made this tonight after seeing it on Pinterest. AMAZING. It will now be a staple in my house. Thanks!!

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  18. I make this and use ground deer meat in place of the beef and it is awesome! It is one of my husband's favorite meals. I add mushrooms to it when I have them available and it makes it even better.

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  19. Made this tonight, and it was marvelous! I used such lean ground beef that it didn't leave any fat, so I used bacon grease and it gave such a great taste to the gravy. This definitely goes on the 'make-again' list.

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  20. These were an almost weekly staple in our house about 40 years ago when the food budget was really tight. Sometimes I added crushed crackers to make it go a little farther. Love these!

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  21. Made these tonight with ground venison. The venison is really lean so I used a bit of bacon drippings in the pan. My husband raved about them. Thanks for sharing this recipe! I stumbled on your site when looking for a good hamburger steak recipe. So many of your recipes look so good, I can't wait to try some more.

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    1. Dont have a url, but my name is Sharon. Like I said, the recipe was awesome with venison. I am going to try your meatball recipe with venison too.

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  22. yumm,i make these but mix in onions n onion salt.we call it onion burgers

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  23. Made this tonight but with chicken tenders and chicken broth. My first gravy! Everyone loved it. Thanks!!

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  24. This was super easy! Husband loved it!

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  25. Whenever you have onions that are really strong in flavor you can chop or slice them up and drop them in ice water for a few minutes. Helps to take away some of the smell and taste

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  26. cannot wait to make this as a surprise for my Texas born & raised Husband! Every time I make a "kitchen hit" he calls his mom (score for this Seattle born & raised girl! lol)

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  27. Sounds awesome, I will have to cook this for my family.

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  28. I love Hamburger Steaks. I eat Hamburger Steaks at least every other week at New Orleans Bar and Grill restaurant in Greensboro.. its so delicious.
    Hamburger Steak

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  29. My family just finished these up for dinner and they were soooo good!! I didn't have onion powder so skipped it and didn't have beef stock so I used vegetable broth and it was awesome!! For the side I sliced potatoes and zucchini really thin, seasoned them with salt, pepper & garlic powder and butter and baked them in a casserole dish. We poured some of the gravy over the veggies too.

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  30. These babies are always superb! Made some last week with added shroomers, what a feast! Thanks for sharing a great recipe, Mandy.

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    1. Do you know what "shroomer" means? You enjoy your far out acid trip, hippy?

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  31. This is one of my ALL TIME FAVORITES from childhood. My dad made these all the time with corn and rice he microwaved (yes, I know I never could duplicate his technique and he is the only person I know who can microwave regular rice and it come out perfectly fluffy and cooked through). I still make this often for my family and have mixed it up different ways using ground beef, turkey or chicken. I like to add different herbs to the meat to change up the flavor also. My fav is rosemary. It brings such a nice element to the meat. Thank you for posting this so that the love of savory goodness this dish inspires can be shared!

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  32. A Mouth-Watering, MY kind of meal. Yes and yes please! Thanks so much for sharing at Weekend Potluck.

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  33. I remember this from childhood also ( I saw earlier comment from Varonica ) =)
    Your recipe looks delicious! I pinned to save.

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  34. I challenge anyone to say this isn't some of the finest eating a person can experience! Shirley.

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  35. These hamburger steals sound wonderful! Thank you very much! :)
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  36. Didn't have a clue for dinner tonight. Now I do. This sound great and brings back memories. Thanks

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  37. I don't normally leave comments for recipes. But, I had a taste today for hamburger steaks, and remembered your picture on Pinterest. So, I whipped up a batch. OMG! I Love the gravy! Spices absolutely perfect! I'll be using your recipe from now on!
    BTW,,,,,lots of people are using your photo to carry you to the wrong sites. Just wanted you aware.
    Thanks for sharing the recipe!

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  38. I'm making this tonight for my boyfriend and his brother. I don't have onion powder. Could I finely chop onion and throw it in the beef?

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  39. I made them and they were a HIT! It was also my first time making gravy, and it was so simple! My boyfriend has asked that I make this meal again.... and often!

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  40. I've been looking through your recipes and discovered we cook a lot alike. I don't know, maybe we southern girls are just born to cook good food. Just a suggestion on your hamburger steaks, try breading them with flour. They are awesome that way. Also I use Wyler's beef granules to sometimes flavor my gravies if I'm making beef tips or hamburger steak. It's a good replacement for beef stock. Finally I have found a cooking website to my taste. Thanks for sharing!

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  41. Being a BAMA GIRL, I grew up on these type foods and have just found your website today!! Was looking for a recipe for a simple brown gravy to use over hamburger steaks (I do usually cheat on gravy and use a packet but was out...lol). Decided to just use this entire recipe and it was MELT IN YOUR MOUTH DELISH!!!! Living in Orlando now, I usually don't get these type foods without making them myself. Made the hamburger steaks with mushroom and onion gravy (just added mushrooms and onions while searing the steaks), mashed potatoes (doubled the gravy recipe for gravy for taters) and sweet peas...My 14 year old son cannot eat mashed potatoes without mixing them with peas!! haha AMAZING site and I assure you I will be passing on many of your recipes and "liking" on facebook!! Thanks again!! You made this mom and wife and hero tonight!! :)

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  42. You had me at the rice and gravy with the black eyed peas on the side! Ah gravy!!!!!! Anything is good with gravy. I remember these well - with 6 kids to feed growing up in the 50s and 60s we had these a lot! And loved them every time Mom fixed them. Your recipe is the same that has been passed down to me from Mom and Grandma! Sometimes I will add mushrooms to the gravy but mainly I just make sure I have plenty of gravy to go with the steaks and taters or rise! Thanks for the flashback! #TBT

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  43. Kerri Morgan9/21/14, 7:27 PM

    I saw this recipe on your Facebook page awhile ago & finally made it tonight for dinner. Can I just say I was blown away how delicious this was?! My husband is still raving about it & said I can make this as much as I want!! Thank you for yet another 'keeper' recipe!! Yours are THE best.

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  44. Always Love this recipe… Everyone in the family enjoys it every time!

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  45. If I have pre-sliced patties, can I just sprinkle on the seasonings or do I need to work them through all the meat combined?

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  46. I finally got around to making these, and they are delicious!!!! Gravy scares me, but this turned out perfectly!
    Only thing I did was substitute Lawry's seasoning salt for the meat seasonings; a little easier and good :)
    Next time I want to impress a man, I'm making this ;)

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  47. Made this tonight. So good!! My hubby too will take this over a filet mignon and I have often made "a hamburger steak, store bought gravy. This will definitely becomes one of our go too's. So easy and usually have all ingredients on hand.

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  48. Just made this and we loved it. Husband commented several times at how good it was. It was also easy too, and I mixed the meat by hand on the tray the meat comes in so I didn't have to dirty a bowl.

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  49. Made last week with mashed potatoes, making tonight over egg noodles. This is a winner:)

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  50. Add chopped onions to the ground beef. Flour and brown in a small amount of fat until almost cooked. Remove from pan and add 2 Tablespoons flour to fat in pan. Brown slightly and add 2 cups milk and cook until thickened. A can of cream of mushroom soup can be added to make more gravy. Thin with milk if needed. Add hamburgers and simmer carefully for about fifteen minutes. Serve with mashed potatoes, peas and hot dinner rolls. A lighter dessert is usually wise as this is rather filling. This is the Northerner version popular here in Wyoming.

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  51. Try making this with 1/3 of a cup white wine and 1/2 a can of mushroom soup delicious. Marie

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  52. I have a recipe for hamburger steaks and gravy, but I'm gonna use yours tonight. My recipe includes eggs and bread crumbs but I won't be using them. Will post my results ASAP!

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    1. Well, I made your recipe and it was DELICIOUS! This is the first time I didn't use seasoning salt, eggs, and breadcrumbs. And it was a hit. I had to triple the gravy and double the seasonings because I used 2 lbs. of ground beef. Your recipe shall now be my go-to recipe for hamburger steaks. Oh yeah, and I didn't need to add any additional seasonings to the gravy. The beef broth was enough and the gravy was WONDERFUL!!

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  53. MY FIRST TIME MAKING MY OWN GRAVY AND THIS RECIPE HELPED ME NAIL IT! IT WAS GREAT!!THANKS!!

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  54. Made this as written.
    What I really like about this is that the flavor is not overpowering and the gravy does not have that artificial flavor that gravy mixes normally have. The flavors balance out without one being dominate.

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  55. This was so good and so simple! I’m not a huge fan of hamburger steaks but these were tasty and the gravy made it so much better! Can’t wait to use this gravy with other stuff

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  56. Thank you! We Like them very much and I am passing on the recipe!!

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  57. I like this! But I roll my hamburger in flour , then fried it up, remove and make milk gravy , and pan bread.

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  58. If you don't mind. You're first recupe for the gravy, was it one or 2 cups of beef broth & how much flour? I don't rememberit being in ounces & i'm kind of weird about being very precise about something when I like it lol.

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    1. There's a little more than 1 3/4 cups in a 14-oz can ;)

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  59. Wanted to like this but the ratios of the patties and gravy seemed all wrong. 1/4 pound patties? With that much cooking time they shrink to the size of a hockey puck. The gravy was thin and had to be thickened with corn starch.

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  60. I made this tonight and it was great! I made it just like the recipe! It is definitely a keeper for my recipe book. Thank you!

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  61. I do these, but with pre-seasoned burgers I make ahead and freeze raw. I make them usually for the grill, but when I crave hamburger steaks, I bake this up on a rack in the oven (from frozen) at 425 for at least 15 minutes to sear and then lower to finish (flipping a few times). Then I set them out to drain on paper towels while I get my roux and gravy made (I add milk following the broth/stock). Then the hamburger steaks go into the gravy long enough to heat through again and register 165 F or above. I like to serve up with a lot of french fries to dip in the extra rich gravy.

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  62. I made this tonight exactly as the recipe instructed. The gravy is delicious. I didn’t have 1/4 C drippings, so added butter. Great idea! However, the next time I make it I’ll want to decrease the garlic powder. Half teaspoon is a lot in 1# of meat for my family

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  63. Loved this recipe. Very tasteful. Can’t wait to make again. Thanks bunches!!

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  64. Too much garlic powder for my taste would use 1/4 teaspoon not 1/2 teaspoon

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  65. OMG! This was so good and I loved it very easy to make and it didn’t take long to cook it. I had leftover mashed potatoes and served the meat & gravy on top

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  66. I’m going to try this soon. I work nights so unfortunately my family eats early in the afternoon. I’m always looking for affordable meals to make as things are tight right now. I’ll definitely let you know how it turns out.

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Hi there! While I’m not able to respond to every comment, I try hard to answer any questions that haven’t been addressed in the post, recipe or in other comments.

I can tell you now 1) I have no idea if you can substitute Minute Rice or brown rice in my recipes because I’ve never used them and 2) If I know how to convert a recipe to a Crock Pot version, I will make a note about it (otherwise, I don’t know).

And though I may not respond to them all, I do read each and every comment and I LOVE to hear from you guys! Thanks, y’all! - Mandy