Favourite slow cooker meals with recipes please

[April241]

I’m looking for your favourite slow cooker meals and linked recipes or how you make it please.

I’ve had a look in the food section and seen lots of nice ideas but no actual recipes, I’m not a very confident cook and I’m wary about trying random recipes, mainly because I always think my food doesn’t taste very nice and I don’t like to waste whatever I have made.

I have toddler twins who currently like to literally hang off my legs so I’ve hauled out the slow cooker so I can take 5 minutes to prep, chuck it in and leave it. Hoping that by doing this we can actual meal prep for the week and have proper meals!

Thanks in advance.

I made it today, it's very easy and tastes nice. You need sausages (sometimes I use chicken ones if I want to be healthy), onion, celery stick, carrots, paprika, oregano, salt and pepper. Slice onion and lightly soften it in a pan, don't brown. Then I added carrots to onion and cooked a bit just to soften the carrots (when you add tomatoes vegetables won't soften easily). Put it in the slow cooker. Then brown the sausages (don't cook them just brown) and into the slow cooker. Add celery sticks, paprika (I like quite a lot, it's not spicy), oregano, salt and pepper, tin of tomatoes, tiny bit of sugar (for tomatoes), a bit of stock cube and a bit of boiling water (not a lot). Cover and wait. I cooked it on slow for 5 hours.

Thank you :)

Go to Aldi and buy two legs of lamb. Throw into your slow cooker with half a glass of red wine, a big spoonful of redcurrant jelly, a bit of garlic, rosemary and salt and pepper. Do on slow for 6-8 hrs. Eat as a roast or my preferred one is to jam slices into home made flatbreads, salad and redcurrant jelly. That'll also give you enough lamb to do a nice curry or stew in your slow cooker the next day too.

"Not" roast chicken. Put sliced carrot and leek in your slow cooker. Pop a chicken on top. Cook on low for up to 8 hours. Beautiful moist meat.
Brown mince. Put mince and bolognese sauce (homemade or not) in slow cooker. Leave on low a couple of hours and all you need to do is cook pasta when you get back.
Soup - chuck in a cup of lentils, a litre of stock, chopped leek and 4 chopped carrots. Leave on low for 6 hours. Blend. Soup :-)
I luffs Autumn and my SC!

Also, if you have lingering veg, think about making a tomato sauce. You can use it for all sorts.
I put whatever is left in the salad drawer - onions, tomatoes, carrots, etc in the slow cooker with a teaspoon of lazy garlic and a pinch of mixed herbs. Add a can of tomatoes or carton of passata and leave for 5 hours or so. Then I blend it and freeze it to use in chilli or spag bol or whenever tinned tomatoes are needed.

Cubed beef, fry till brown.
Fry Carrots, onion.
Par boil potatoes.

Put all in the slow cooker, meat first. Top up with gravy. If you aren't confident with using herbs, put in a Knor herb pot. Season with black pepper.

Cook for 4-6 hours. Before the end put in peas and spinach. You can use whatever Veg you want. Thicken with cornflower if necessary (mix a teaspoon of CF with cold water until thick, then put it in) and put in more gravy/herbs/black pepper, if needed after tasting.

I like it with crusty bread and pickled cabbage.

4 pork loin steaks
An onion, chopped
Some mushrooms, chopped
A can of mushroom soup

Fry off onions and mushrooms in some oil. Put in slow cooker. Pile pork on top. Add can of soup. Cook on low for 6-8hrs. Serve with rice or mash and vegetables.

Brown ribs. Add to slow cooker with a bottle of barbecue sauce and a small tub of applesauce.

Are you on facebook? If you are, join slow cooked wonders. It has stacks of recipes and lots of photos and helpful advice.
One of my favs is pulled pork and cooking a whole chicken in it.
Also hot choc

This is currently our favourite:

slowcooker.cooktopcove.com/2016/05/17/how-to-make-slow-cooker-thai-chicken-curry/?src=fbfan_51962&t=fbsub_slowcookerkitchen&rp=20180805

And someone posted this here before, it's ace:

allrecipes.co.uk/recipe/17202/slow-cooker-butter-chicken.aspx

Roast Beef

• Seal in a frying pan first
• Put in slow cooker with 1/2 pint of beef stock
• Smear some dijon mustard on beef
• Cook on low all day

Roast Chicken (you're seeing a theme!)

• Slice a potato into 1-2cm flat disks
• Stand whole chicken on potato disks
• Season chicken if you'd like
• Cook on low all day

Curry

• Cut up meat (we use 3-4 chicken breasts)
• Add chopped potatoes and vegetables of your choosing (we use bell peppers and spring greens)
• Add 1-2 jars of curry sauce of your choice
• Cook on either high (5hrs) or on low depending on how long you have.

Basically I put whatever I used to cook in the oven, in the slow cooker! I'm not into cooking, so it's all basic and quick. I also do lamb, chilli and Bolognese in the slow cooker (I find that browning the mince first is a must).

Bbq pulled pork

Pork joint (whatever is on offer- usually shoulder)
Onion
2 garlic cloves crushed
Tspoon mixed herbs
Tspoon smoked paprika
3 tablespoons balsamic vinegar
2 tablespoons sugar or sweetener
Chilli if wanted

Bung in and cook on low all day.

Lift out pork and pull and then add some of the sauce.

I sometimes do this as a last minute slow cooker meal

www.goodhousekeeping.com/uk/food/recipes/a574738/slow-cooker-macaroni-cheese/

Two favourites

Lamb and sweet potato curry
allrecipes.co.uk/recipe/29381/slow-cooker-lamb-and-sweet-potato-curry.aspx

Chilli con carne
allrecipes.co.uk/recipe/2240/slow-cooker-chilli-con-carne.aspx

This is my fave... it's delicious 😋

www.themediterraneandish.com/moroccan-lamb-stew-recipe/

I’ve got Twins, SC is the only way we ate when they were little!

The best is sausage casserole:
1 bag frozen roasted veg/peppers/mushrooms/ something
A pack of sausages cut into bite sized pieces with the kitchen scissors straight into the pot
Some chorizo cut into chunks with the kitchen scissors straight into the pot
A tin of red kidney beans in chilli sauce
Depending on the size of the SC, more tinned red kidney beans and tinned tomatoes
A big teaspoon of lazy garlic
A big teaspoon of smoked paprika
A big squirt of tomato purée

My SC had a setting where it would go on high for a bit then switch to low, put it on that

About an hour before you want to eat it, have a look. If it’s too runny, put it on high and leave the lid off.

Everything goes orange from the paprika so it doesn’t matter that you didn’t Brown the sausages. If you leave it too long it just goes a bit soupy, still nice. Eat it with rice, crusty bread, grated cheese, soured cream.....anything really

Ah I recently did a chicken and the leftover juices made the best gravy. Moist meat no crispy skin but I didn’t miss it. All the recipes say fry onions etc I don’t bother just chuck all in . Tonight’s was onions peppers celery potatoes (washed skin on qtrs) piece of pork loin then tinned tomatoes , Tom paste , herbs . Stock pot and paprika top with a little water. Entire meal takes about 20 mins to prepare cook all day while at work.... pork comes out like pulled pork. Can use chicken thighs too!

Lasagne
Mix raw mince, onion, lazy garlic, canned chopped tomatoes, (+ red or white wine if you like)
Layer with uncooked pasta sheets ( break up a little to make oval shape)
Pour over white sauce...jar, or packet is ok. And throw on a handful of cheese.
Slow cook all day.
Brown top under grill, in oven, or with blowtorch if you like the look of crispy top better.

Thanks everyone! These are all great and I’ll definitely need to try them out. Will make a meal plan for next week and try a few of these.

newkitchen I am on FB, I’ll have a look there too, thanks!

www.theorganisedmum.blog/2017/05/10/slow-cooker-chorizo-chicken/

Hi everyone,

We're moving this to Food and Recipes at OP's request.