RECIPE IDEAS FOR SLOW COOKER

[angeldelight]

IF YOU HAVE A SLOW COOKER CAN YOU PUT YOUR IDEAS HERE PLEASE WITH FULL INSTRUCTIONS ON PREPARING / INGREDIENTS ETC

THANKS

ANGEL XXX

[Tam's Tribe]

Light pork chilli

Diced pork
Chilli powder (to taste)
Onion, chopped
Stock (enough to half cover meat)
Can of tomatoes
Can of kidney beans
1 x tbsp tomato puree
1 x tbsp cumin
Freshly ground black pepper

Put all ingredients in slow cooker, mix well and leave to cook.


** Quick and easy and very nice! ** . . . my rating

[Tam's Tribe]

Chicken and bacon casserole with cripsy rosemary dumplings

4-6 smoked streaky bacon rashers
4-6 chicken breasts
1 sweet potato, peeled and cut into cubes
2 carrots, roughley chopped
1 large onion, chopped
2 tsp Bovril or Marmite
1 tsp tomato puree
½ pint dry white wine
Chicken stock cube

For the dumplings
225g self raising flour
100g shredded suet
2 tbsp chopped fresh rosemary
1 egg, beaten

Wrap a bacon rasher around a chicken breast and secure with a cocktail stick. Season well. Put sweet potatoe, onion and carrots in slow cooker, place chicken and bacon on top. Crumble stock cube over, season and pour in white wine, add tomato puree and bovril, mix well. Leave to cook. About half way through add some cornflour mixed with cold water, you seem to need more than normal in the slow cooker.

** Quick and easy and absolutely DELICIOUS with rice ** . . . My rating

The smell will drive you crazy while cooking!!!

[angeldelight]

Thanks for all of the ideas you have given to me Tam I have just looked through them they sound lovely

Angel xx

[Tam's Tribe]

You are welcome, and its nice to help someone else for a change (I have had so much advice and ideas from the forum in the last couple of months).

I am looking forward to making stuff OTHER THAN STEWS in my slow cooker, like lasagne, spagbol, casseroles, etc . . . stuff you can prep in the morning and be ready for tea . . . stress free cooking . . . even my boys are asking me what I am cooking tomorrow . . . personally I think they are waiting for me to try the syryp sponge!!!

And dont forget, you can make delicious rice pudding in your slow cooker . . . much better than the best well know brand!!!!

Also, you can make pies as well . . . make the filling in the slow cooker, then just before serving, take the crock pot out of the housing and put puff pastry on the top and pop in the oven!!!

Hope you are convinced to get one, you wont regret it!

I will shut up now . . . as you can tell, I love my slow cooker

Lovies
Tam
x

[Blackhorse]

Slow cooker lamb and tomato stew:
1.2 kg stewing lamb (I have also used less before..but good to make more and freeze sometimes)
2 tbsp plain flour seasoned with pepper
4tbsp oil
2 large cloves of garlic
1 sprig fresh rosmary (have also left this out before as it was raining so much I couldnt be bothered to go into the garden and get it..LOL)
150ml white wine and 150ml lamb or beef stock OR 300 ml stock
1/2 tsp salt
400g can tomatoes
salt and pepper to season

trim lamb and cut into cubes
toss in flour
heat oil in a pan and fry the lamb
then lift into slow cooker pot
add the garlic to remaining oil in frying pan, then add rosemary wine and stock and tomatoes..bring almost to the boil and scrape off all the bits of meat etc from the pan
pour over the lamb
season with salt and pepper

leave in slow cooker (mine doesnt have a heat setting like low or high..so I just leave it for the max amount of hours which with mine is 9)
the recipe says: high for an hour then 6-8 hours on medium

[Blackhorse]

Rice Pudding

25g butter
100g sugar
100g desert rice
1ltr milk

Grease the pot with the butter (use it all up)
Add the other ingredients to the pot
Stir gently together
Turn the slow cooker to high
Stir occassionally during cooking
Cooking time is approx 2.5hrs to 3.5hrs

when it is to liquidy I have sometimes just opened to lid towards the end to let some steam evaporate...or change my cooking mode to porridge cooking which does the job in no time...as it uses a much higher heat...(as my slow cooker mode doesnt have a heat setting)

[Mrs Book]

Love my slow cooker. Currently have vegetable pasta sauce in mine.

Have some fab receipies in a slow cook book my mom brought me so will put some of those on. Going to try some of the ones already on here.

But do agree strews, chillis and such like seem to be the norm. This month declicious mag has some slow cooker recipies in it.

[Willowdancer]

Roast chicken!

1 chicken
1 carrot per person
2 x celery sticks
1 x Onion
1 x garlic bulb
Pack streaky bacon rashers.

Peel carrots and chop into large pieces (either half or in thirds.)

Peel loose skin from onion, top and tail then cut in half.

Remove loose skin from garlic head and cut in half.

Clean celery sticks and cut into large chunks.

Put carrots, celery, onion and garlic in bottom of slow cooker. Wash chicken and sit on top of veg in slow cooker.

Cook on high for 2 hours and then switch to low and leave all day. Remove chicken from pot - brown in oven if you want. Fish out carrots and celery with a slotted spoon. Strain liquid into a saucepan and make gravy with it.

Yum yum yum!! You can crumble a stock cube and rub it all over the chicken which makes it a bit browner but I usually just take the skin off and then boil it up with the bones to make stock

I buy an extra large chicken and serve it with mash the first day. I make loads more mash and veggies than I need and then the next day I make what I now call Chicken Coop Pie, which is kind of a chicken version of cottage pie.

Then if I still have leftovers the day after that I do either chicken fried rice or chicken bake, which is kind of like a pasta bake except I use rice instead.

[mushpea]

there are lots of recipes on www.*****.co.uk
I do things like bologniase sauce then use it for spag bol and also lasagne, chilli, roast joints, stews , casseroles.
most of the time i do a 'bung it in 'stew so i use any meat i have , today its left over lamb from our roast yesterday, then what ever veg i have in the fridge, think i got carrots, onions, peas, celary and probably a tin of toms, add herbs if you wish and hey presto a medaterainian stew.

[FussyElmo]

Light pork chilli

Diced pork
Chilli powder (to taste)
Onion, chopped
Stock (enough to half cover meat)
Can of tomatoes
Can of kidney beans
1 x tbsp tomato puree
1 x tbsp cumin
Freshly ground black pepper

Put all ingredients in slow cooker, mix well and leave to cook.


** Quick and easy and very nice! ** . . . my rating

Guess what I am having for tea later!!!

Cheers Tam

[patevans]

How do I make a beef stew using the slow cooker?

[LOOPYLISA]

How do I make a beef stew using the slow cooker?

I usually throw everything in, litterally

Beef
Potatoes
carrots
peas
Suede
onions, whatever else you wanna add, and leave all day

[patevans]

I usually throw everything in, litterally

Beef
Potatoes
carrots
peas
Suede
onions, whatever else you wanna add, and leave all day

Do I have to put any stock or gravy or water in?

[patevans]

Just found this one on *****

Beef stew
"Take 500g of braising steak, cube it and roll in flour, salt and pepper. Fry it off with 1 sliced onion. Add 1 oxo cube and 150ml water. Then chuck into the slow cooker with spuds, carrots, garlic and leeks (or a bag of winter vegetable mix). Cook on slow for 8-10 hours."

[daisyboo1980]

pork loin

i only reall cook meat in mine as dp doesnt really like caserole

one nice piece of pork loin
cover with 1 bottle of cider
add 3 good spoonfulls of honey
a dash of worseter sauce
a dash of soy sauce

leave to cook for abt 7 /9 hours depending on size
and use the liquid to make a tasty gravy afterwards

[sweets]

pork loin

i only reall cook meat in mine as dp doesnt really like caserole

one nice piece of pork loin
cover with 1 bottle of cider
add 3 good spoonfulls of honey
a dash of worseter sauce
a dash of soy sauce

leave to cook for abt 7 /9 hours depending on size
and use the liquid to make a tasty gravy afterwards

thats sounds nice, will give it a try.

[LOOPYLISA]

Do I have to put any stock or gravy or water in?

Oh yes der me

I fill to the top with gravy

[LOOPYLISA]

We have shepards pie in ours, well the inside

Beef Mince, browned off first and fat drained,
Chopped Onions
Carrots
peas, any other veg you like
s&p
Leave in slow cooker all day

Cook potatoes, mash, i sometimes put grated cheese on the top too, then under grill to brown

[Zoomie]

I do a ham in the slow cooker.

I love the coca cola recipe : http://www.channel4.com/food/recipes...ecipe_p_1.html