Slow Cooker
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I've just bought a slow cooker and I need some inspiration and recipe ideas. I've never really cooked slowly on the hob or in the oven, so I'm a complete novice.
Any recipes welcome, no matter how basic or fancy they are, thank you
Any recipes welcome, no matter how basic or fancy they are, thank you
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I also brown off some pork and add some pear cider, apple juice few chunks of apple, mushrooms and peas and some creme freche or cream thats lovely after a few hours.
The pork is my fav on a rainy sunday
I am making a Chilli hash at the moment
800g minced beef
2 tins baked beans
2 packets of chilli powder
2 finely chopped Scotch Bonnets
300 grams mushrooms
Potatoes
1 onion
1 and a half can of water.
Method :
Brown off mince & onion to seal, then drain excessive fat. transfer to slow cooker / crock pot.
Add mushrooms, scotch bonnet's, baked beans & water.
Place lid & cook on high until boiling
Add & stir in chilli powder
Place lid & put onto simmer for about 7 hours.
Transfer to oven proof dish & spread over mashed potato, bake until potato has browned off.
Serve with a jug of iced water or beer, as it will blow your head off.
Some of my regular recipes are:
Chicken casserole - chop up potatoes, carrots, and turnips, in roughly the same size chunks. Put in the bottom of the slow cooker, with mushrooms and peeled baby onions. Brown the skins on 4 chicken thighs. Add to the pot. Pour on a pint of stock and a few drops of soy sauce. Cook on low all day. I serve it with Yorkshire puddings.
Sausages - brown the sausages, put in the pot with some sliced onions and mushrooms. Pour on a jar of sauce (whatever you fancy - I've used onion gravy)
Gammon - put a whole joint in the pot and pour over either half a can of cider, or a carton of pinapple juice. Cook on low all day. Half an hour before you want to eat, take out the joint, smear it with honey and put it in a high oven.
Curries are especially good made in the slow cooker. Look at a few jars of curry sauce to get some ideas.
Some great delicious ideas there
http://www.tesco.com/direct/home-electrical/slow-cookers/cat3374426.cat#scrollTo=11;pageNo=1
Ta, with my impatience I've gone and bought a Partitioned Morphy Richards from Argos... thinking that it might be useful for veggie wife as well.
Now, lentil curry....
Thank you
Actually, I've just remembered - the last time I did sausages in the slow cooker, I used steak peppercorn sauce - yummy with jacket potatoes!
I hope you enjoy your slow cooker - it really is great to get home from work and have dinner ready and waiting for you!
I've just remembered - a whole chicken cooked in the slow cooker is fantastic! It is rubbish for carving because the meat just falls off the bone, but you would be amazed at how much meat comes off a meduim sized chicken. I usually keep some for sandiwches and freeze the rest in batches for pies/pasta etc.
I usually heat it all up in an ordinary pan first though - then transfer to the slow cooker.
Oh and I've found that sometimes potato takes longer to cook than the flippin meat so now I cut up any potatoes quite small.
I'm another novice slow-cooker owner and LOVE the sound of the sausages with peppercorn sauce. Will definitely be trying that. Thanks, Holly!
These all sound lovely. Regarding the chicken casserole one, do you not have to put in some kind of thickening agent with the stock? What thickens the stock to make gravy?
Pork tenderloin
Chopped onion
Bbq sauce
About 8 hours on low and it just falls apart.
- breast side down with two stock cubes and boiled water to half cover.
Salt n peppa
Paprika to give some colour
Garlic if you're feeling fancy.
Tablespoon of olive oil to keep it moist (possibly unnecessary)
I leave it on auto during the day. Or 6 hours on low does it
After cooking, drain rather than lift out chicken to prevent it falling apart.Meat falls off bone so no carving required.
Keep the drained water and add some veggies for tasty soup.:)
No worries
I have some thickening granuals which you are meant to add to thicken the stock into gravy, but I prefer it without. You could add a spoon of cornflour at the beginning or halfway through cooking, or use Bisto instead of stock, which would give a thicker gravy.
Thanks for those suggestions
That's OK
I admit that it does spend the summer just taking up space in the cupboard, but really comes into its own during the winter - there's nothing better than getting home when it's dark and cold outside, to find dinner waiting for you!
http://www.slowcookerrecipes.org.uk/
I agree I work mid morning till mid afternoon and a couple of nights a week. It's nice to come home on a rainy cold day after being on my feet all day serving other people food to a lovely pot of something hot tasty and warming.