Slow Cooker - The Recipe Collection

vanoonoo · 9 February 2005 at 1:49PM

i am new to it all too! dont know about risotto or rice in the slow cooker - but I am sure someone will come up with a suggestion

regarding dumplings - you can buy suet mix from the supermarket and mix it with flour and bicarb to make your own dumpling mix - its dead easy and if you like them and will use them often then its worth investing in - its not expensive and is bound to work out more cost effective than buying a premixed pack.

you can get veggie suet too which I ~think~ may be lower in the bad fats so therefore better for you

little_lil · 17 February 2005 at 5:07PM

can recommend this following seen on nigella - she did it on hob for hours and didn't just bung all in but seems to work just as well although i have adapted it according to what i have left over.

1lb diced lamb
2 sticks of celery & 1 onion (wizzed up to mush in a processor)
1 chopped onion
2 tins of chopped toms
1 carton of passata
carrots
mushrooms (not too important)
lots of white wine - i use half a bottle for the above quantities
towards the last hour or so of cooking i add in quick cook macaroni, it comes out lovely and soft.

mightymo_2 · 17 February 2005 at 6:07PM

I don't know if this has already been suggested on this thread: my friend makes porridge in her slow cooker and leaves it to cook over night so when the family get up in the morning - breakfast is served!

tiff · 17 February 2005 at 6:12PM

The Americans also do a "breakfast casserole"

12 beaten eggs
14 slices of bread
2 1/4 cups milk
2 1/2 cups grated cheddar
1 pound of sausage cooked and drained
1 tsp salt
1 tsp pepper
2 tsp mustard, optional

Grease sides of crockpot. If desired, spread mustard on one side of the bread and cut bread into large squares. Make layers in the crockpot of bread, followed by sausage, followed by cheese, ending with a cheese layer.

Beat eggs, milk, salt and pepper together. Pour over crockpot mixture, cover and cook on low for 8-12 hours.

I havent tried it yet, but might on Sunday morning

jaybee · 17 February 2005 at 8:11PM

Is that sausage as in whole sausages or sausage meat? Sounds great - want to do it it NOW!

tiff · 17 February 2005 at 8:17PM

I think its sausage meat but I dont see why you cant adapt it to our sausages which is what I'm going to do. As long as you have roughly the same weight in meat. I'm just thinking would it really need 8 hours in the slow cooker?

Sarahsaver · 17 February 2005 at 9:42PM

Risotto
You MUST have risotto rice, other sorts of rice do not make risotto, they make jambalaya or biryani or pilaff.
I have done risotto in the slow cooker, following Delia's 'risotto in the oven' method
I have also made risotto the proper way.The difference? Compare the former to a quick fumble behind the bikesheds, the latter to full on tantric experience.

Sarahsaver · 17 February 2005 at 9:45PM

tiff wrote:

The Americans also do a "breakfast casserole"

12 beaten eggs
14 slices of bread
2 1/4 cups milk
2 1/2 cups grated cheddar
1 pound of sausage cooked and drained
1 tsp salt
1 tsp pepper
2 tsp mustard, optional

Grease sides of crockpot. If desired, spread mustard on one side of the bread and cut bread into large squares. Make layers in the crockpot of bread, followed by sausage, followed by cheese, ending with a cheese layer.

Beat eggs, milk, salt and pepper together. Pour over crockpot mixture, cover and cook on low for 8-12 hours.

I havent tried it yet, but might on Sunday morning

OMG! a coronary in a dish! Sounds rather too big but i expect the kids would like it. i must admit I had never thought of doing breakfast in the slow cooker. Proves how much you can learn from this site:)

toozie_2 · 17 February 2005 at 9:45PM

Tonights tea was more of a slo-cooker store cupboard challenge.

Fry 4 rashers almost out-of-date bacon chopped, in a little oil.
Add 3 chopped sausages-found at bottom of freezer
1 sprouting onion chopped
1 tired looking leek chopped
2 ready to die mushrooms chopped

Add 17p tin chopped tomatos
Mixed herbs
black pepper
and the remains of an almost used bottle of brown sauce with some hot water.

Bung all in the slo-cooker, with 4 pototoes peeled, but kept whole, and warmed thru in micro for 3 mins first.

yummmm, potatoes, whole done to perfection and sausey stew delicious. Whole cheap meal in one pot.

elona · 18 February 2005 at 11:31AM

Toozie

That sounds really tasty- does not sound as if you really need a cookery book):):):

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