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Slow Cooker - The Recipe Collection

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  • toozie_2
    toozie_2 Posts: 3,274 Forumite
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    Black Morphy Richards 3.5 lt Slow Cooker reduced in local SuperDrug to £13.75.
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  • tiff
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    I would add enough liquid to cover the lot, no more as it wont evaporate.

    Great slow cooking website here

    Last night was the first time I used my slow cooker (talk about a slow cooker revolution going on here lol). I had bought some lamb shanks, something I have never bought before and decided to put them in the slow cooker. Added two tins tomatoes, celery, onions, carrots cut into strips, garlic, some lamb stock made from a stock cube, lentils and mixed herbs. When we came home at tea time, the smell was gorgeous and the meal itself was one of the best I have made. The lamb just fell off the bone and as there was quite a lot of liquid I used some of it to mash the potatoes with.

    Today I put the leftovers in the food processor and made soup for lunchtime. My family were well impressed and it was so easy.

    Let us know how you get on :)
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  • Callyanna
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    ;D

    Thanks for your help Ssaver and Tiff.
    In the end I just adapted a recipe from a Sue Kreitsman cookery book ( she's the alledgedly "queen of low fat cookery"!)

    Blended a herby tin of chopped tomatoes, a chopped onion, a slug of balsamic vinegar as I didn't have any red wine going spare, a teaspoon each of cumin seeds and mixed spice and the rind and juice of a tangerine (no lemon ! see how flexible I am? lol)
    Crumbled in a stock cube, heated in microwave and poured over seasoned meat.
    It's cooking now as I write and the smell is absolutely gorgeous!! Can't wait to get my teeth into it tomorrow!
  • Glad
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    I only ever use an inch of water in base of my slowcooker,
    cooked a lamb joint yesterdat
    but with lamb I tend to do veg seperately as the liquid gets very fatty,
    before bed last night i put bones back in with 2 pints water and end of leek/carrot/onion left it on low and had a pot of stock this morning ;D
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  • vanoonoo
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    three great success stories with my slowcooker recently:

    prawn rogan josh

    thai style red curry with prawns

    chicken and bean fajita

    I cheated and used ready made pataks paste for the rogan josh and then added coconut milk to the left over for the thai style curry

    but with both those it was a bag of previously frozen prawns, a chopped onion and the paste with two tins of tomatoes cooked on low for as long as I could be bothered to wait.

    the fajita stuff is smelling delicious and is a jar of old elpaso fajita sauce with a tin of canellini beans and a pound of minced chicken breast which i had dry fried first.

    I let the fajita sauce cook in the slo cooker on high for a while with the lid off but now that I have added the beans and chicken I have put the lid on and turned it down to low.
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  • elona
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    Vanvoodoo

    It sounds great and I can almost smell the cooking. ;D
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  • tiff
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    aussielle wrote:
    This is one of our favs

    mushrooms

    pork steak

    red and green peppers cut into strips

    red wine

    paprika

    worcester sauce

    tin chopped tomatoes

    Just throw it all in.....ready when you are *;D

    Can anyone think of an alternative to Paprika that would work, as I dont have any in :(
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  • elona
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    Sorry this reply is a bit late but if it was me I would use garlic or curry or chillie powder - anything I had in - it should still be nice.
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  • tiff
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    Thanks Elona, I wasnt too sure what to use but could have used any of your suggestions but in the end I made sweet and sour pork from a recipe on the net and if I do say so myself it was delicious.
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  • vanoonoo
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    lol thanks - it was great - tonight its veggie curry (sauce from neighbour) and on wednesday it was a turkey thigh (bogof in tesco and donated to me by nice family member). I am a complete convert to slo cooker cooking. many thanks to my generous benefactor for giving me the opportunity to experiment with her cast off :)
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