Give me your slow cooker recipes please?

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I have a slow cooker but I only ever use it on Boxing Day to make coca cola gammon!!! So please give me your favourite and easy recipes as I am a really bad cook!!

I like these breakfast beans.

To be honest I mostly just bung in vegetables and pulses without a recipe (I'm vegetarian).

Chicken breasts in the bottom, then carrots onions peas peppers mushrooms leeks and whatever else you've got chopped and on top, bung in a tin of chopped tomatoes and a can of chicken soup, some water (can also use chicken stock) up to level of veg, lid on, switch on. After a couple of hours stir and then continue to ignore for however long you want. Might need thickening with some gravy powder or cornflour before serving. Can either serve whole breasts with side of rice and veg and gravy tipped on the chicken, or shred the chicken (which will be falling to pieces) and serve on top of rice. Piece of piss.

This is lovely. The only part of the recipe missing is the 'shred with two forks'. I prefer doing it on low & slow but the high 4 hours is just as nice.

Leg (or other joint) of lamb in red wine. The meat comes out really tender and the juice makes a wonderful gravy.

Leg of lamb. Lay on top of onions and carrots. Whole jar of redcurrent jelly. Whole jar of mint. Loads of garlic. St, pepper some stock. Slow cook on low at midnight. Eat following lunch t8mr with mash, green beans and shiraz yum yum yum

I’m so lazy - put in whole chIcken, turn on low for 6-8 hours... the end

Utterly shameless placemarking.

Fajitas
1 onion and 2 peppers sliced up and any other veggies you fancy, I tend to chuck in a tin of sweetcorn close to the end
2-3 chicken breasts
Pack of fajitas seasoning

Half the veg on bottom with the chicken breasts on top with fajitas seasoning on them then cover with the rest of veg,
6 hours on low then shred or slice the chicken

It does end up with quite a lot of liquid so sometimes I will chuck a tea towel under the lid so it doesn't end up with so much.

There is quite a few slow cooker groups on Facebook if you use it

Goulash

Braising steak
Smoked bacon or pancetta
Onions (lots!)
Tinned tomatoes
Tomato purée
Garlic
Mixed herbs
Paprika (lots!)
Beef stock cube
S&P

It’s usually best to brown the beef first and add flour to soak up the juices

It’s lovely served with crusty bread

Generally Placemarking

But recently did Jamie Oliver's Jools Favourite Stew in the Slow Cooker and it went brilliantly

Recipe here :

www.jamieoliver.com/recipes/beef-recipes/jools-s-favourite-beef-stew/

Would also appreciate any Instant Pot recipes

Lentil soup:
2 onions
4 carrots
230g red lentils
2 tins of chopped tomatoes
Mixed herbs
1.7litres bouillon stock

Put kettle on. Chop veg. Rinse lentils. Make stock. Put everything in slow cooker. Many hours later, blend it. Eat.

Ooh you could pop some bacon in the lentil soup. Or curry powder x

Lovely!!! Off food shopping today so will note down some of these!! Thank you all

Place mark!!

pinchofnom.com/recipes/syn-free-campfire-stew/

I agree with PP roast chicken in a slow cooker is ace. Literally no work or faffing or thinking. It’s great!

I do our jkt spuds in ours, whilst we are out walking.
I also do my one pot meals, like chilli, bolognaise, curry etc
I stick chicken in with jar sauces and mushroom and onion.
Pork joints with a little veg stock

I also warm my pork pies in ours, another great one to come into after walking .

@NonJeNeRegretteRien does it fall apart though? Meaning all the bones etc are mixed through the chicken?

Chopped up over ripe tomatoes, a couple of onions chopped & fried (or they taste a bit raw), chicken thighs cut up, rolled in flour & seared in the onion pan.

Add any other vegetables eg. carrots, peppers, courgettes, aubergine but be aware they cook down really soft - my kids prefer veg cooked separately on the side.

Add garlic (lots) & an optional chilli - again they cook down loads so chop both coarsely, no need to mince finely.

Add flavourings/liquid. Be really mean with the liquid or you'll end up with soup! Lots cooks out of tomatoes & chicken so you need much less than you'd think.

I use: half tin coconut milk with curry spices OR tomato puree, dollop of stock, herbs usually. However, most popular effort recently was when I had a nearly empty bottle of barbecue sauce & rinsed it out into the pot!

Also experiment with chilli & liquid smoke OR soy sauce OR various vinegars...

Cook for 4 hours on high or all day on low. Add frozen veg or tinned pulses as liked for last hour.

You can do the same thing with stewing steak - stew, curry, chilli.

I also do a mean stealth veg tomato sauce - 2kg over ripe tomatoes, rest of the veg in the fridge, garlic, herbs, cup of stock. Leave to tick away all day in low then blend. Freezes brilliantly.

I'm in a hot country where veg are dirt cheap, great quality but don't keep, so forever using slow cooker to batch cook for freezer. Best £25 I ever spent.

Mincemeat is amazing in a slow cooker. I cook mine on low for a few hours with an oxo cube, dash of Worcester sauce, spoonful of tomato puree and salt and pepper. Use to make cottage pie or bolognese sauce. Delish!

Not in my experience, just be careful as you lift it out (get something under it) tends to be really lovely and moist

I use mine mainly for doing joints of meat.

Gammon - sprinkle with black pepper and chilli flakes, drizzle with barbeque sauce and honey (or maple syrup if you have it).

If you have time and care to, some chopped onion and garlic thrown in with it is really nice, but I often skip it (or throw in frozen). Comes out really tender and lovely for slicing or shredding.

Beef - black pepper, chilli flakes, garlic and ginger (I just throw frozen cubes in), few shakes of worcester sauce and pour in red wine (I just use one of the tiny single-serving bottles)

If I have time I might chop up a layer of onion, celery, carrot for the bottom.

Chicken - generic chicken seasoning, black pepper, sometimes a bit extra paprika (for colour), a few whole cloves of garlic, and a few shakes of lemon juice (I have a small long-lasting bottle in the fridge)

I often prepare the meat with the seasoning in the slow cooker inner pot (only takes a couple mins), and then leave in the fridge overnight.
Then when I'm working (most days), DH can take it out of the fridge mid-day and just put it in the slow cooker, switch to on.

By the time I get in, the house smells like lovely home-cooked dinner. I'll add salad or steamed veg or ready-made coleslaw, and DH will sort his carb portion out (potato or rice-cooker rice).

There's almost always enough left over for lunch cold cuts a couple days.

I'll try it @NonJeNeRegretteRien

I can't imagine 'roast' dinners in the slow cooker, doesn't it get soggy and not at all crisp? Flabby chicken skin.... yuck.

I can understand if you're cooking it to shred the meat for soup or fajitas or something.

I was driving in the rain and thought it was time to get the slow cooker out!

My slow cooker is enormous. Can you put cake tins and things in?

Oh yes @memaymamo I always take the skin off the chicken otherwise it goes oily and meh.