One pot meal for 9 hungry grown-ups!

[Jezabelle]

I am cooking for me and DH and 7 close friends on Friday. It's an informal affair, just grub on laps for people to help themselves to. I was thinking a one pot meal as I need it to be easy. I have a slow cooker, so could stick it in there. Don't want to break the bank either. I was thinking of chilli and rice but would be open to something more imaginative!

Something for pud would be good too.

TIA

Would you fit chilli for 9 in your slow cooker? Mines a 2l one and not sure it would make that amount.

I've been making the chicken and chorizo tray bake that some one posted on here last week. You coul do something like that in 2 trays in the oven and just let people help themselves.

Bread and butter pudding would also be a good pod as you could prepare in advance and just stick in the oven, I like to make mine with choc chips instead of raisins.

I think chilli wound be lovely
Instead of rice have it with baked spuds or nachos or tacos, guacamole, sour cream, cheese, the works basically

Or curry

what about a huge lasagne? lots of garlic bread and side salad
pudding could be just some really nice ice-cream and shortbread biscuits

I often do a big tray bake for a crowd as clara suggests :
chicken (breasts or thighs/legs)
chorizo
onion
sweet potatoes
peppers
baby potatoes or chunks of big spuds
cherry toms
loads of garlic
olive oil / s&p / oregano
bung it all in for about 40 mins - really delicious
crusty part baked rolls to go with

Slow cooker meatball or chicken curry + a veggie indian dish, thinking Bombay potatoes, or chana dal with spinach (or other lentil based curry) - very filling. + rice & naan, + extras such as popadums mango chutney, yoghurt if you like - A feast!

Paella is very easy for a crowd and can be very economical - mussels are really cheap and you can go steady on the amount of prawns..

beef stifado -huge crowd pleaser but it's really easy

serve it with rice, chips, crusty bread -up to you really but it's soooooo nice

allrecipes.co.uk/recipe/9045/kefalonian-beef-stifado.aspx