Slow Cooker - The Recipe Collection

r.mac wrote:

curry queen - I would love your lamb recipe if you don't mind posting it. Sounds delicious!

thanks r.mac

I'll write out the recipe as it is in the book but it's easily adapted to suit the slow-cooker. I used slightly less veg as I was only cooking a half leg of lamb, and chopped them into smaller chunks (replaced celeriac with celery) and also used less water/wine as liquid doesn't evaporate in the slow-cooker. Oh, I also used dry herbs (heaped tsp of each) and added a veg stock cube too.

1 large leg lamb
salt and freshly ground black pepper
olive oil
6 rashers of thick streaky bacon
3 red onions, peeled and quartered
3 cloves garlic, peeled and sliced
2 good handfuls of mixed fresh herbs (thyme, rosemary, bay)
4 large potatoes, peeled and cut inti chunks
1 celeriac, peeled and cut into chunks
6 large carrots, scrubbed and halved
3 parsnips, scrubbed and halved
1 bottle white wine

Preheat oven to 170C/325F/gas 3 (unless using slow-cooker ) In a large casserole pot or deep-sided roasting tin, fry your well-seasoned lamb in a couple of good lugs of olive oil until brown on all sides. Add bacon, onions and garlic and continue to fry for 3 more minutes. Throw in herbs and veg, pour in wine plus an equivalent amount of water, bring to boil, and lightly cover with kitchen foil. Bake in pre-heated oven for 5 hours till tender, seasoning cooking liquor to taste. Serve with crusty bread to mop up the gravy!


Obviously I didn't brown the meat etc in the cooking pot but used a separate pan then put everything into the slow-cooker and cooked it on low setting for 7-8 hours. The meat just fell off the bone when it was cooked and was extremely yummy


PS I currently have a beef bourguignon cooking away in the pot and it smells absolutely divine ... can't wait for dinner tonight :j

Mine are cooking at the moment and smell great! Lets hope they taste as good as they smell:):):)

Dont worry about leaving it on, my sister is a single parent and works full time, she leaves hers on low all day and its fine. It cant boil over, cant see any other danger with it.

You can cook rice but if you left it all day I'm sure it would be really soggy and not nice at all. You can do anything that you would do in the oven or hob, rice pudding, spag bol, chilli, curry, meat joints on their own or with veg, loads and loads of different things.

Not sure its worth it if your OH doesnt eat veg, but worth it for you

What DOES he eat, out of interest?

What DOES he eat, out of interest?

Rubbish .... to put it bluntly !!

Chips takeways etc.

Although he is getting better, he now likes savoury rice and i got him to eat salad the other week and he liked it , granted it was on top of a takeaway but he still enjoyed.

Oh and he had garlic bread the other day, he reaction was '35 years old andd i've never eaten garlic bread because i didn't think i'd like it but it's bloomin lovely' !!

that's his trouble he eats with his eyes .. if you know what i mean, if it looks horrible he won't eat it.