In my slow cooker today.... part 2

poppycracker

another rice pudding cooked in mine today. With a cinnamon stick in it. Thumbs up from DH when we had a portion each for pudding tonight, still hot . The rest is for his piece for work (lunch) hopefully for the rest of this week.

trets77

Why did i not know this thread existed until now.

We use a slow cooker regular. Like a lot of others we have the 20 quid cookworks one from Argos. So cheap, so big and very good.

With out doubt this is the best recipe.

Make the night before by just sticking the lot in the pot and the leave in the fridge. The red wine then get more marinated.

[url]Http://www.jamieoliver.com/recipes/beef-recipes/jools-s-favourite-beef-stew[/url]

you can take or leave the artichokes. not the absolute cheapest but certainly the nicest.

craigywv

tessie_bear wrote: »

im making a rice pudding in mine with coconut milk...just the weather for it today

could I pls have the recipe for this as it sounds lovely . does the taste of coconut come through as very strong thanks

craigywv

just put ingredients for lentil and carrot soup in the smaller sc and in big cooker have a massive boneless gammon so when this is cooked will put some in the soup and put the rest thru the slicer and honey some for sunday dinner and the rest will do sandwiches and omelettes etc....iLOVE my sc.

Willowpop

I did a whole chicken in mine for the 1st time yesterday.
If was so lovely and soft that it literally fell apart as I was getting it out of the SC.
Meat was delicious though.

sherry16

CAT££ wrote: »

Hi,

It's adapted from the recipe for the Hairy Bikers steak & ale pie, which is also lovely.

Ingredients
500g diced stewing steak
1 onion diced
crushed clove of garlic
Button Mushrooms (the whole packet as it comes in supermarket)
2 carrots chopped
2 sprigs of fresh thyme or tsp dried
200ml Ale (e.g Manns Bitter,99p for bottle from Aldi/Home Bargains)
300ml beef stock
1 tbsp Oil
1 tbsp plain flour
Salt & Pepper

Method
Coat the steak in the flour with the salt & pepper, and brown the meat in batches. Leave to one side and meanwhile fry the onions for a few mins, add the garlic for the last minute, add the carrots, mushrooms and thyme and stir for a minute or so, add the ale and slowly add the stock. Bring to the boil.

There are different ways to cook this, you can either leave on the hob on low for 2 hours with lid on, place in the slow cooker all day or put in the oven for around 2 hours on 150c/160c.

**If placing in the slow cooker, you'll need to reduce the amount of liquid used, possibly 100ml of ale to 150-200ml of stock**

**If you use the slow cooker or hob and find there's too much liquid, add a couple of teaspoons of gravy granuals to thicken**

**To turn into a pie, I follow the above, and then place in a pie dish, with a sheet of puffy pastry and brush a beaten egg on top to glaze and bake in the oven for approx 30mins at 200c.

I am being lazy, and using ready made frozen giant yorkies today.

Enjoy

I'm making this today so thank you for the recipe! I've adapted slightly and added more flour as I had more beef, and also added extra carrots and some Worcestershire sauce, can't wait!

Going to serve as a pie tonight with roasties, yorkies and cauliflower cheese, non nom nom

FunkyFairy

Todays slow cooker delight is beef curry

crispeater

I too have beef curry, Thai beef curry.. House smells amazing!!!

andrewsmum

A piece of ham in mine fro sandwiches

Raksha

Bread and butter pudding. Don't tell anyone, but I found some sealed single slice packs of Soreen fruit loaf with a bbe of 28th Feb (2013 I THINK..) when I tidied my Approved Foods stash... Two slices had gone manky, but the rest seemed fine....
Waste not want not huh?