SLOW COOKER - recipes please!!! :-)

[looneytune]

Hi

Had my slow cooker for 5+ years and haven't used it yet The only person to use it is my SIL who is the one who got it for us. She made Jamie Oliver's Fantastic Fish Pie and it was yummy.

About time I started using it. Got an upright freezer now so want to cook batches and freeze them too.

Sooooooo, would anyone like to share their receipes with me???

One thing I really would love to try is something with liver!! YUM!

TIA

Thanks loonytune!

No probs!

I made a fantastic one yesterday. With beef, red wine, carrots, chestnuts & cranberry sauce, of all things. Will dig out recipe & post it.

Please do, sounds yum!

MOst of my recipes have come from Mumsnet in the first place!

my fave very easy one is redcurrant pork:

1.5 lb diced pork
2 onions chopped
2 carrots sliced
2 tbsp flour
0.5 pt chicken stock
redcurrant jelly
bay leaf

brown pork in pan, transfer to slow cooker
saute onions and carrots 3-4 min,ad to slow cooker.
stir in flour, stock, good 2 tbspn redcurrant jelly, bay leaf

cook 5-8 hours

lovely

ooh, that looks lovely pandag - and thanks for this thread, its just reminded me to go and make my beef strog in the slow cooker - yum yum!

Thanks very much for the document Loneytunes

This will probably make me look stupid, but hey I'm not proud. Is the difference between pressure cookers and slow cookers, the pressure one does it extra fast and the slow cooker, well even I can work that out

yep pressure cooker really fast, slow cooker does what it says on the tin. The beauty is you can do all the prep first thing in the morning or the night before, and come home to a meal ready at tea time with no fuss - maybe just some veg or pasta to cook to go with it. may also been known as a crock pot. I find mine very useful - doubly so because I always fill it, and a full slow cooker will feed my family twice, so half goes in the freezer for an easy meal another day.

...and the house smells lovely by the afternoon - i really like that about mine!

Sauce - yes please!

Small problem - ds must have squirreled it somewhere. I'll find it, don't worry.

Thought i would add my stew because it is cooking now and smells great

Stewing steak
shallots
carrots
leeks
parsnips
2 beef stock mixes
half a tube of tomato puree
1 tin tomatos
2 cans corned beef to thicken

brown meat if you like 1st
then throw it all together apart from 1 tin of corned beef which you add abuot 30 min before the end along with some pepper

ummmmmmmmmm nice

Here's a recipe called Tuscan Chicken I've stolen off the telly , sorry but the quantities are in silly American cups. 1cup = 8oz or about 225ml on the old pyrex jug.
Enjoy

2 cups sliced red onions
1 cup sliced fennel bulb
2 cloves garlic, minced
1 (15-ounce) can white (cannellini) beans, rinsed and drained
1 cup reduced-sodium chicken broth (that's stock in English)
4 (5-ounce) skinless chicken breast halves (with bone)
Salt and freshly ground black pepper
2 tablespoons chopped fresh rosemary leaves
1/2 cup sliced roasted red peppers (from water-packed jar)
4 cups chopped Swiss chard leaves or Spinach is just as good

Arrange onions, fennel and garlic in bottom of slow cooker. Place beans on top of vegetables. Pour over chicken broth.
Season chicken all over with salt and pepper and place on top of vegetables and beans in the slow cooker. Sprinkle rosemary over chicken. Place roasted red pepper slices on top of chicken. Arrange Swiss chard all around chicken.

Cover and cook on LOW for 6 to 8 hours or on HIGH for 3 to 4 hours.

Any more to add to the pot?