No oven, so Christmas dinner will be slow-cooked....

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Pheasant? Or Leg of lamb?

Pheasants more festive but lamb DH's favourite meat and will have more leftovers so I can be lazy on Boxing Day unless I do two birds.

Has anyone done either of these in the slow-cooker? I think it'll be just like a pot-roast, no? All tips welcome.

I have cooked roast chicken in slow cooker and it comes out so tender and juicy. Am sure same would apply to either of your dishes.

I didn't add any water, it just cooked in its own juices. Not sure about lamb, might need a bit a water.

I do chickens in there too, so I'm hopeful a pheasant will be fine, though they have a tendency to dryness (easily rectified with apples, cream and calvados though )

I do chicken in the slow cooker all the time.

I did lamb in it last week for the first time and it was truely yummy (and drooling just thinking sbout it!!)

The down side was that it was soooo nice, there was not as much left overs as I thought there would be

I did not add any liquid just a lamb stock cube and some fresh rosemary.

I did a bed of carrots, leeks & onions first then popped the lamb on top iyswim.

The only down side to a slow cooker is the spuds will be soggy and not crunchy.

Sounds delicious. Did you do a lamb shoulder or leg?

I would do lamb.

Do you have a microwave? or a barbecue? to do the veggies?

Barbecue could do chargrilled root veggies/ Cook roasties on those foil trays you can get?

I did a leg.

It was the most popular dinner I have cooked for sometime

You can make pretend roasties by parboiling spuds then deep frying! Or sauted potatoes in olive oil and garlic! Yum

At the moment I'm thinking lamb rubbed with garlic, Rosemary and anchovies, with sauteed potatoes, broccoli, glazed carrots and creamed leeks.

Can anyone point me to a leg of lamb in a slow cooker recipe?

Will save the pheasant for NYE.

Sorry - have microwave and hob, just no oven.