Your Favourite Slow Cooker Recipes

[GeorginaA]

Leading on from gscrym's thread, I realise that I really don't make as much use of my slow cooker as I should (I think I have one recipe I regularly use). So I thought I'd poll mumsnet for some more good ones!

So, what are your favourite slow cooker meals? Extra points for chop & chuck in style recipes as opposed to having to cook stuff before putting them into the slow cooker, and also preferably "meal in one pot" type recipes (potatoes, veg, meat (optional) etc all in one pot so I don't have to faff cooking accompanyments).

Thank you muchly

[colinsmommy]

There's a website I go to that has over 900 recipes, but they're American, and not sure how easy that would be to convert for you.

[GeorginaA]

I'd be happy to have a look ... I have conversion tables. I have to confess though I was hoping more for the "love this so much we eat it at least once a fortnight" tried and tested type stuff

[colinsmommy]

Try here TBH, I know I liked some of them very much, but its been several years, and can't remember which ones they were. I don't have my old computer anymore, which had them saved.

[GeorginaA]

Thank you, shall look forward to experimenting

[Spanna2]

A lot of trial and error for me. Our fav is a beef casserole. Basically,
500g beef strips/braising steak.
1 onion chopped/shallots are nice if you can be bothered peeling them!!
Couple of carrots chopped
250g mushrooms sliced
1 pepper chopped
Half tin of plum toms
2 stock cubes dissolved in half pint of boiling water
Garlic clove crushed
Bay leaf
Any mixed herb you like
Pinch of paprika


Basically throw everything into slow cooker and switch on!! I usually add some gravy granules at the end to help thicken it. And add dumplings on top 30 mins b4 the end!! Yummy!!
We eat this loads...the meat is really tender and it means I can get my DD to eat red meat!
you can adapt it with chicken or other meat and just add different stock cubes.
Usually serve with more veg or pots

[GeorginaA]

Oooo yum... sounds lovely, going to try that, thank you!

Any more for any more? (shamelessly bumping on behalf of me and gscrym (who has now bought her slow cooker)!!)

[Beccarollover]

oooooooooo my Mum used to do redcurrant pork in her slo cooker its one of my favourite childhood memories

I'll get the recipe from her

[gscrym]

Spanna2, that stew was lush!!!

It tasted just like the stifado we had in Corfu. DH now thinks a slow cooker is a great idea as the house selled lovely when he came home from work.

[Beccarollover]

Redcurrant Pork

1.5lb lean pork - cut into small pieces
2 onions chopped
2 carrots slices
2 tbsp flour
0.5 pt chicken stock
redcurrant jelly
1 bay leaf
Paxo stuffing mix - 6-8 small balls of

1 Pre heat slow cooker
2 Heat pork until browing in pan
3 Transfer to slo cooker
Sautes onions and carrots for 3-4 mins
5 Stir in flour then chicken stock, redcurrant jelly and bay leaf
6 Prepare stuffing balls and arrange on top of pork mixture
7 Cook on high for 30 mins and low for 5-8 hours

Hope you like! I can remember this and its LUSH

[Momof2]

We use ours loads - our fav is all the left overs from SUnday roast thrown in the pot and left on all day in gravy so that on a Monday pm we have a lovely stew.
Another one I do is sausage casserole - you do have to cook the sausages off first - but I usually bung them in the oven for a bit until they are brown ( I would do this the night before). Then add tin of beans, tin of chopped toms and tin of new pots, cut up sausages and cook away for the day - Cowboy or Scooby Doo dinner we call this! If I am feeling particularly decadent I fry off an onion and some smoked bacon and put this in too, but its not necessary.