Slow Cooker Recipes

[Jilly]

I thought seeing quite a few of us seem to be either buying of dusting of our slow cookers for the Winter it might be an idea to have a thread for recipes & general hints & tips.... I've only had mine for a week so any hints very welcome 

The first thing we did in it was Pulled Pork & there are a 101 recipes & methods if you google it, this is what we did (which is a mix up of a couple of recipes) but it gives the general idea. It came out very well I must say 

Carolina BBQ Pulled Pork ( Slow Cooker Recipe)

Ingredients

1.5-2kg Pork Shoulder


For the Dry Rub

15g Cumin

20g Dark Brown Sugar

30g Paprika

15g Chilli Powder

15g Salt

15g Black Pepper, ground

1 tsp Onion Powder

1 tsp Garlic Powder


For the Barbeque Cooking Sauce

240ml White Wine Vinegar

240ml Apple Cider Vinegar

85g Brown Sugar

15g Chilli flakes or Crushed Chillies

1 tsp Salt

1 tsp Black Pepper, ground


Barbeque Dressing Sauce

4 tbs Tomato Puree

4 tbs Acacia Honey

1 tbs Dark Soy Sauce

Saved Barbeque Cooking Sauce



Method

Day 1 : Mix all the ingredients for the Dry Rub and rub into the pork.

Place in bowl, cover and leave in fridge overnight or for 12 hours



Make the Barbeque Cooking Sauce by mixing and heating all the ingredients until the sugar disolves. Let cool.



Day 2: Remove pork from fridge and allow to stand for an hour at room temperature.

Heat some oil in a large frying pan, and sear all sides of the pork on high heat.



Place pork in slow cooker on low heat, covering with the barbeque cooking sauce.

Cook for 8-10 hours.



Remove meat from cooker and put to one side, cover and keep warm

Drain Barbeque Cooking Sauce into a container and put to one side; skim excess fat from top of sauce



Make Barbeque Dressing Sauce

Add ingredients to a pan on a medium heat, stirring until they are blended and the honey has dissolved.

Add in as much of the drained Barbeque Cooking Sauce as required.

Heat for 2-3 minutes



Before serving

Remove skin from pork, and then shred/pull the joint apart with forks.

Pour desired amount of Barbeque Dressing Sauce over pork and then you are ready to serve hot or cold.


It's a lively little number, but the sweeter dressing sauce tones things down a bit. The traditional accompaniment is home made coleslaw, but it's just as nice in a soft roll or with some potato wedges.

[Rosefriend]

Looks and sounds really good Jilly and a great idea for a thread !!

I will look up some that I have and I have also included one below that Jenny posted.

Jan 12, 2012 18:09:22 GMT JennyWrenn said:

A very quick and no nonsense/prep dish thrown into the slow cooker

Throw in 8 oz American Long grain rice
and a 400 ml tin mushroom soup + 3/4 pt HOT chicken stock

Top with 2 or 4 chicken joints - depending on how big the pot is
and Cook on High for about 4-5 hours

Stir rice and pop into oven on 190 degrees to brown chicken which has been sprinkled with paprika for about 15 mins



SIMPLES

[Jilly]

Oh Rosefriend I'd forgotten what a good cook Jenny was, she used to put a lot of recipes on here.

We did actually have a proper try of ours yesterday, it's not a recipe as such, but we did end up with quite a nice dinner.

When BIL visited at the weekend he brought us a pack of chilli sausages from his butchers, OH hates flavoured sausages & knowing my BIL I had a feeling for him to rave about them they probably had more chilli than even I'd care for. So to save wasting them we made a sausage casserole, just using a Schwarz slow cooker mix.

On the plus side, we had dinner waiting for us when we got home & it's the first time we've ever made a sausage casserole that wasn't watery & horrible. On the slightly minor side, the (vast amount) of chilli in the sausages had permeated all through the casserole & it was nearly enough to blow your head off. As OH said, I'm glad we didn't have those with chips 

[Tig]

Great idea Jilly, I have yet to try mine as I forgot to soak my peas last night - first dish I'm having a go at will be a vegetable stew with dumplings. Just hope the dumplings cook OK and aren't soggy and heavy.

[Rosefriend]

Beef Stew on FB Slow Cooker Recipes..

2 lbs. beef stew meat, cubed
½ tsp. salt
½ tsp. black pepper
1 clove minced garlic
1 tsp. Worcestershire sauce
1 tsp. paprika
1 bay leaf
¼ cup flour
1 chopped celery stalk
1 chopped onion
4 sliced carrots
4 diced potatoes
1 ½ cups beef broth

Set the crock pot on low. In a bowl, mix together the salt, pepper and flour. Add the cubed beef and coat it in this mixture. Once the beef is entirely covered, empty the entire bowl into the crock pot. Add in the rest of the ingredients, cover and cook on either low for 8 hours or high for 6 hours.

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I bet you could add dumplings as well..

RF

[Jilly]

That sounds nice and simple Rosefriend, we did a Beef Goulash in ours yesterday & it was adapted from the Hairy Dieters cookbook too, so nice an healthy.... well it was until we served it with mashed potatoes  . Very economical though as we had some last night & there's easily enough for tonight & probably a couple of lunches too.

Have you tried yours yet Tig, I'm interested how the dumplings came out.

Hairy Dieters Beef Goulash
Info

Serves: 6 / 306 calories per portion

Prep time: 20 minutes

Cooking time: 2 hours and 35 minutes

Ingredients

• 1kg good braising steak, preferably chuck steak

• 1 tbsp sunflower oil

• 3 medium onions, cut into 12 wedges

• 3 garlic cloves, crushed

• 2 tsp hot smoked paprika

• 1 tbsp paprika

• 1 beef stock cube (Oxo works well here)

• 600ml cold water

• 400g can of chopped tomatoes

• 2 tbsp tomato purée

• 2 bay leaves

• 1 red pepper

• 1 green pepper

• 1 orange pepper

• flaked sea salt

• freshly ground black pepper

Cooking Method

1. Lots of peppers and paprika make a good bit of braising steak into something special. A great foot stomping feast from Hungary to stop you feeling hungry!

2. Preheat the oven to 170°C/Fan 150°C/Gas 3½. Trim any hard fat off the beef and cut the meat into rough 4cm chunks. Season well with salt and freshly ground black pepper.

3. Heat the oil in a large flameproof casserole dish. Add the steak and fry over a high heat until nicely browned all over, turning regularly. Tip the onions into the pan and cook with the beef for 5 minutes until softened. Add the crushed garlic and cook for a further minute, stirring regularly.

4. Sprinkle both paprikas over the meat and crumble the beef stock cube on top. Add the water, tomatoes, tomato purée and bay leaves. Season with salt and pepper, stir well and bring to a simmer. Cover with a tightly fitting lid and transfer the dish to the oven. Cook for 1½ hours.

5. While the beef is cooking, remove the core and seeds from each pepper and chuck them away. Cut each pepper into chunks of about 3cm. When the beef has cooked for 1½ hours, carefully remove the dish from the oven. Stir in the peppers, put the lid back on and put the goulash back in the oven for a further hour or until the beef is meltingly tender.

This is the oven method, we just browned the meat & onions & slung everything into the slow cooker (peppers too) with a good glug of red wine and only used half the water. Did it on high for an hour then turned it down to low for 5 hours

[Rosefriend]

Some really good ingredients Jilly - I've seen them make Gulasch in Hungary and they really pile the paprika in - tastes great though.

RF

[Tig]

I'm using mine for the first time today - only a vegetable stew, but it will have dumplings in so I'll let you know how they turn out Jilly

[Tig]

Ta da!!



I knocked it up to high and put them in an hour before the end of cooking time. They were nice, but not quite as light and fluffy as when I do them for 25 minutes in the oven or the pan.

[Penny]

Oh wow....some great recipes on here...thanks everyone.

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i normally go with pot roast or stew meat..then add to it what I'm interested in as long as i have it to add.be it potato's,Cherey carrots etc etc.and of course.i add 3-4 bay leaves...

[Rosefriend]

Jan 2, 2014 17:05:36 GMT @jimle said:

i normally go with pot roast or stew meat..then add to it what I'm interested in as long as i have it to add.be it potato's,Cherey carrots etc etc.and of course.i add 3-4 bay leaves...

Must admit that I tend to be the same @jimle but just sometimes I love to pretend to be a fantastic Chef and cook the most fantastic meals...doesn't work very often but I love to try a new recipe now and again...

RF

[Rosefriend]

CROCK POT PEPPER STEAK

Tried this between Christmas and New Year and I was very impressed..





2 pounds beef sirloin, cut into 2 inch strips
(you can buy pre-cut beef strips also)
garlic powder to taste-maybe 1/4 teaspoon
3 tablespoons vegetable oil
1 cube beef bouillon
1/2 cup hot water
1 tablespoon cornstarch
1/2 cup chopped onion
1 (14.5 ounce) can stewed tomatoes, with liquid
3 tablespoons soy sauce
1 teaspoon white sugar
pepper to taste-you have salt in soy and bouillon cube- you can use low salt soy

2 large green and or red bell peppers, cut in strips
(tastes better if you add peppers in the last hour or two so so they don't get mushy)

Sprinkle strips of sirloin with garlic powder to taste. In a large skillet over medium heat, heat the vegetable oil and brown the seasoned beef strips. Transfer to a slow cooker.
Mix bouillon cube with hot water until dissolved, then mix in cornstarch until dissolved. Pour into the slow cooker with meat. Stir in onion, stewed tomatoes, soy sauce, sugar, and salt. Add peppers two hours before done.

Cover, and cook on High for 3 to 4 hours, or on Low for 6.

You can serve over noodles, rice or potatoes.

[Jilly]

That looks lovely Rosefriend. We stopped using ours for a little while after a slight disaster trying to do a slow cooked lamb recipe, we used a Hairy Bikers one & I know we both love garlic, but the whole bulb was a bit much, you couldn't taste anything else 

However we fired it up again to do the pulled pork recipe for lunch yesterday & when we asked BIL (quite a fussy eater) if he liked it, he pulled out his mobile there & then & ordered the same slow cooker as we've got from Amazon & took the recipe home with him 

[Rosefriend]

Jan 2, 2014 18:08:00 GMT Jilly said:

That looks lovely Rosefriend. We stopped using ours for a little while after a slight disaster trying to do a slow cooked lamb recipe, we used a Hairy Bikers one & I know we both love garlic, but the whole bulb was a bit much, you couldn't taste anything else 

However we fired it up again to do the pulled pork recipe for lunch yesterday & when we asked BIL (quite a fussy eater) if he liked it, he pulled out his mobile there & then & ordered the same slow cooker as we've got from Amazon & took the recipe home with him 

Love garlic too - many many years ago a friend cooked pasta for me with a sauce of 2 bulbs of garlic, olive oil, salt and pepper.

After eating it, I would have run away from myself had I been able to...

RF

[Deleted]

looks like i need a new slow cooker now seeing how heating elment went out on me..

[Rosefriend]

Jan 2, 2014 19:42:48 GMT @jimle said:

looks like i need a new slow cooker now seeing how heating elment went out on me..

Do you have things like "winter sales" in the USA @jimle - perhaps you can get one for a good price...I have to admit they really are good and although I don't use mine very often, I wouldn't like to be without it.

RF

[Deleted]

oh yeah im sure there's winter sales on them and all..which i can do tomorrow seeing i'll be in town..it's just a matter of me looking into them to decide on which one i wanna get n all..

[Rosefriend]

Made a really really lovely stew in the slow cooker...mashed tatties to go with it....wonderful!!

Got an idea for Saturday - pork with?? not sure yet - maybe a mishmash, but I hope it is good!!

RF

[Deleted]

pork? that be pork chops? or some other pork?pork roast? now i be getting hungry... lol..german patato salad might go good with it

[Rosefriend]

Jan 10, 2014 16:16:56 GMT @jimle said:

pork? that be pork chops? or some other pork?pork roast? now i be getting hungry... lol..german patato salad might go good with it

It all depends what I am going to do with pork as to what I use, of course...I have no idea what you call your cuts of meat in the USA - actually after nearly 34 years her ein Germany I tend to only know what I can get here.

What do you call German potato salad @jimle??

I use "schnitzel" pork for cuttings into strips and very quickly frying - not sure if I can use it in a slow cooker or whether it isn't better in a wok!!



For the slow cooker I would probably use what I call pork stewing meat..



My Mum used to do a slow cooker recipe with Pork chops and it was delicious... will try and find the recipe..

Jilly - I have finally got around to getting some smoked pork to cook with the cola - do I cover the meat with the coke as it is not a very big piece??

RF

[Jilly]

No just about half way up Rosefriend same as if you were doing it in any other liquid. The method I use suggests cutting up an onion & standing the meat on that, just for a bit of extra flavour & to stop it sticking to the bottom, not sure it's really necessary though as you won't be using the cooking liquid, well not unless you fancy cola sauce 

[Deleted]

the german potato salad comes in a can,simalar to a can of green beans.thin slices of potatos spices and i dont know what else are in the can..and it sets a lil heavy in the stomach if a person not use to it..i forgot that you live in germany.. so you probally dont have it there when it comes to what we have here.

[Rosefriend]

Jan 10, 2014 18:41:01 GMT Jilly said:

No just about half way up Rosefriend same as if you were doing it in any other liquid. The method I use suggests cutting up an onion & standing the meat on that, just for a bit of extra flavour & to stop it sticking to the bottom, not sure it's really necessary though as you won't be using the cooking liquid, well not unless you fancy cola sauce 

Thanks Jilly - not sure when we are doing it - OH's face says "never" but I will definately give it a go!! Cola sauce - nay, even I am not that daft...am I??!!

Jan 10, 2014 18:47:24 GMT @jimle said:

the german potato salad comes in a can,simalar to a can of green beans.thin slices of potatos spices and i dont know what else are in the can..and it sets a lil heavy in the stomach if a person not use to it..i forgot that you live in germany.. so you probally dont have it there when it comes to what we have here.

Well we make several different types of potato salad - one from OH's Mum who was born in what is now Poland and I carry on making it - even my Mum and Daid in the UK loved it...not sure I would be too happy with potato salad out of a can - having said that, why not!!

RF

[Deleted]

there are other types here as well...and yes,that includes home made as well..thats the best.