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Slow Cooker Beef Casserole

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  • Aarons_mummy
    Aarons_mummy Posts: 961 Forumite
    You don't have to preheat it or I don't anyway.

    I'd put it in slow (my SC has low, high, warm so if that's the case choose low) and leave it on until needed. Either that or you could put it on high for 2/3 hours. I'd brown the meat off and soften onions in a pan, pop it in the slow cooker with enough water to cover it, pop some gravy granules in halfway through cooking.

    Mine came out ok when I done it like that :D
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  • Any
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    Hi,
    I would defo brown it first. You can put the low cooker on when you start browning the meat, just on slow, but you don't have to. Entirely up to you. I usually put it on just few minutes before transfering the meat into it so it doesn't go into cold.. it is probably silly now thinking about it, but that is what I do.

    If you put it on at 11am and want to eat at 7, I would put it on low (higher then keep warm, you still want it to cook, but you don't want it to boil hard-each slow cooker is different).
  • quintwins
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    i never brown my meat, i just throw it in with whatever i have, i've yet to much up a meal in my slow cooker, only thing is frozen veg might go mushy so maybe add it an hr or 2 before your due to eat it xxx
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    I have at the moment a lovely piece of brisket in my SC for dinner toninght I put it on with a few sliced carrots and a handful of chopped onions at 7.00.a.m. this morning on low and we will be eating it at around 6 tonight.I have my pal down from Dartford for a couple of days again this week so the beef will do us for several meals .
  • Sublime_2
    Sublime_2 Posts: 15,741 Forumite
    I never brown mine, and it comes out looking lovely. I don't use stock cubes, apart from vegetable sometimes, but your ingredients sound fine. I usually sprinkle sone flour over the veg, at the bottom, and mix it around a bit, before adding meat, and any liquid. Usually tinned tomatoes, or wine.
  • adelight
    adelight Posts: 2,658 Forumite
    I never brown mine, i'm the laziest slow cooker user ever. I just throw everything in and leave it, heck I don't even dice the fish/meat when I do chowder cause I know I can just run a fork through the chunks to break them up when it's cooked.

    I'd leave it on low. Do you have any spuds? A diced potato will thicken it nicely.
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  • binnie
    binnie Posts: 995 Forumite
    Sorry only got back on my computer to read these comments.
    I did brown it first, then chopped up onion and put it in raw to the slow cooker. I did warm it up on high for a short while, then left the meat for 3 hours at high, and it's still on now at low.
    I hope it's not rock hard. I must say it doesn't smell too appetising.
    I used a beef stroganoff mix with added milk, but I much prefer the thick creamy jar stuff from Asda.
    Oh well, I'll let you know how I got on after eating it.
  • Penelope_Penguin
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    As this has fallen from the front page of OS, I'll add it to the existing thread, to give you more ideas :)
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  • binnie
    binnie Posts: 995 Forumite
    Hello all :beer:
    Me and hubbie are still alive after my slow cooker meal.:rotfl:
    It was ok, a bit bland for me. Next time I may use a different packet sauce or even a jar. You can't beat a jar of creamy sauce, yum. I probably should have just used oxo cubes and gravy granules, but put in stroganoff out of a packet.
    At least I've had a go.
  • jimimi
    jimimi Posts: 281 Forumite
    Hello

    I've recently married, and as a present got given a slow cooker. I've never used one before and wanted to make beef stew. I've made stew before but only in a big pot. I usually put dumplings in it so I've got flour and suet. I've also got red potatoes, carrots, swede, onions, stewing steak and bisto powder for the gravy. Does anyone have a tried and tested method of making stew using these ingredients in a slow cooker?

    Thanks, Sam
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