Fall-off-the-Bone Pork Steaks

Fall-off-the-Bone Pork Steaks -- essentially a 5-ingredient meal prepared in the slow cooker
Fall-off-the-bone tender, mouth-watering flavor and an aroma that made our house smell wonderful—this is definitely an easy one-pot meal that I'll make again! It is more of a technique than a specific recipe so I've written the directions in a conversational manner versus the usual recipe format
Even in the midst of stay-at-home COVID-19 orders, I needed a no-fuss evening meal as I had multiple Zoom meetings and several deadlines. So, I thought of the pork steaks that Barry purchased last week when they were on sale. We re-wrapped them so each was in it's own individual bag and put them in the freezer. I just grabbed a couple and without much thought and few expectations, I threw them into the slow cooker. They were so good (and easy) that I decided to create a post. These are the conversational directions . . .

1. Place 2 pork steaks (frozen or thawed) side-by-side in an oval slow cooker. They could also be stacked if you are doing more than two.
2. Sprinkle most of a 1 oz. envelope of Dry Onion Soup Mix over the steaks. Amount can vary according to  preference and number of steaks.
3. Add enough chicken or pork broth or stock to almost cover steaks.
4. Set on HIGH for a couple of hours or until steak becomes tender, then turn to LOW. 
5. About 1 or 1 1/2 hours before ready to eat, add carrots and potatoes; season with salt & pepper. Add a cornstarch slurry and set on HIGH to finish cooking. I used carrot strips and smaller potato chunks so the veggies would cook in the time I allowed. To make a cornstarch slurry: Mix about 1 or 2 Tbsp. cornstarch with 2 to 3 Tbsp. of water.

   

   Above - Vegetables have been added to the pork steak.
   Below: Then a slurry was added and all the ingredients cooked on HIGH for another hour. 

   

The result was fall-on-the-bone tender pork steak that was packed with flavor and aroma . . .