I need some good Slow cooker recipes with no pre frying

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I recently put a thread in returning to work looking for top tips and lots of people mentioned slow cookers.

Well I have got mine back from my mums along with the recipe book but everything needs pre frying. I have a beef stroganoff on to cook but I had to fry the onions and beef last night then put in the slow cooker this morning so I can't see what the great advantage is over just doing a casserole.

Does everything need to be pre fried or could I just dump it straight in and if so can anyone recommend any recipes for that.

Many thanks

I agree most recipes say to pre-fry but I have a recipe book which covers the "throw everything in together" approach as well and tells you which recipes you can do this for and which you can't. I have been using mine without pre-frying because I am practising for when I will be without a cooker next year when I am having work done on my kitchen. So far everything has been fine. I have done chicken casseroles, chilli and goulash with no problems

Well I will give the throw everything in to the cooker plan a go then.

However I am sure that when I tried chilli that way the mince looked really funny and thats how the slow cooker originally ended up going to my mums. KTreePee did your mince look ok in the chili or was it chunks of meat you used ?

Used mince and it looked ok. Does your slowcooker have an "auto" setting - where it cooks on high for a few hours and then switches to low? I think you need to use this (or if you don't have this, cook on high for a few hours and then switch to low yourself)

No auto setting on the slow cooker, think it is quite a basic model. I will be out during the day so won't be able to change setting, but maybe I could buy a more advanced model and give this one back to my mum.

My stroganoff last night was fantastic, am trying chicken casserole tonight with no pre frying to see how that goes.

Bumping as I could do with some easy recipes

I would think that my favourite recipe would work in a slow cooker. I usually just chuck it all in a pan and don't fry the onion and spices first like the official recipe says.

Chickpea Curry

1 large onion, chopped
1 1/2 tbsp vegetable oil
2 garlic cloves,crushed
1/2 tsp chilli powder
1 tsp ground cumin
1/2 tsp ground coriander
1/2 tsp ground ginger
1 x 400g can chopped tomatoes
1 tbsp tomato puree
2 x 400g can chickpeas
450ml vegetable stock (made with stock cube)

good luck - I have a slow cooker somewhere and would like to try a few new things too!

I think you could do any recipe without pre frying. I think all it does is make it look nicer really. The best bit of the slow cooker though is smelling your dinner when you get home. Mmmm.

Tommy, that's sounds YUM!! Will deffo try that!

Will start new thread asking for everyone's favourite recipes for slow cooker and see what comes back. Had mine 5 years and not used it yet