Sauce & Slow cooker

leeegglestone

I dont know if anyone has seen these but they were about 19p each so thought would try them

Called Planet Cook Heinz Cooking Sauces for Kids.

I have got
Mexican Chilli
Spanish Chicken
& Chicken Tikka

Anyway Im taking some Diced Chicken (330g), (even though the sauce pack says use 450g) out of the Freezer tonight, hopefully its defrosted for the morning. If so I will brown & seal it. Next I want to throw it in the slow cooker with a packet of the Sauce (300g)

Do you think I should add any extra liquid in?in the past ive got home and found the sauces burned onto parts of my Dish. im probs gonna go for the spanish chicken one.

May throw some mushrooms into the Pot too & bit of frozen veg - carrots, cauliflower,brocolli - would this be cooked if I put the frozen veg on the bottom, it would be on for about 10hours by the time I get home for work

Hope someone can help, will b checkin in the mornin before I prepare it

Lee

maow425

The frozen veg should be fine, and should even add a bit of water to the sauce anyway.

pollyanna24

The only time I have used sauce in the sc, it went completely wrong. That was jars of chicken tonight though, so it might be different to what you've got.

Drunken_Butterfly

Hello,

I've got a packet of Colman's Beef Bourguignon in the cupboard and wanted to use it in the Slow Cooker. What do I need to do to convert the recipe to work in the slow cooker? Previous attempts to do this with other packets have been less than successful! It's always to watery.

Also it doesn't say to brown the meat and veg before you add it to the casserole dish - should I ignore this and do it anyway?

Any advice from you slow cooking geniuses much appreciated

moggins

I would definitely brown the meat and use half the liquid recommended.

charlies_mum

I use Colemans sauces all the time in my slow cooker. I just throw everything in, (I don't brown the meat) and put 3/4 pint of water in, but if it is too watery, just try 1/2 pint. Our favourite is the beef casserole, and I put some baby new potatoes in and serve with crusty bread.

I leave it to cook for about 5 hours on low.

newMS

i use them in mine. chicken chasuer (sp) is my favorite...... bung everything in add packet mix and leave on while im at work.... always turns out ok for me.........


"bung in" in my world is a proper culenery term lol

moggins

A bung in was an actual meal when I first got married. We were both learning how to cook so we just bunged it all in with a can of beer usually, never had a meal that we couldn't eat - had some very interesting taste experiences though.

allIcouldwishfor

charlies_mum wrote:

I use Colemans sauces all the time in my slow cooker. I just throw everything in, (I don't brown the meat) and put 3/4 pint of water in, but if it is too watery, just try 1/2 pint. Our favourite is the beef casserole, and I put some baby new potatoes in and serve with crusty bread.

I leave it to cook for about 5 hours on low.

If it's too watery at the end you could chuck it in a pan on the stove and reduce it down a bit, or add a bit of flour dissolved in a few spoonfuls of water. That's pretty much all that colmans sauces are made of anyway, isn't it? Aren't they just flour and herbs?

Drunken_Butterfly

Wow - thanks for all the replies! Some of those ideas are so obvious (i.e reduce it on the stove). Why didn't I think of that before!

A few questions (for now...): I was going to start it in the morning and have it all ready for when we get in in the evening but now I'm wondering if I should put it on tonight then transfer it to the fridge in the morning to simply re-heat when we get in (Obviously I'd let it cool down before I put it in the fridge). Is that a good idea? Or will it ruin the food?

I was going to prep as much as I could tonight anyway and the thought of browning beef off at 7 in the morning isn't appealing at the moment.

Finally - how long do you put it on for? It say's 1 3/4 hours on the packet. How does that translate to the world of slow cookers?

I'm new to this Slow Cooker lark - can you tell.

Thanks for all the help - you lot are stars!

newMS

when im going to work i put it on before i leave home ( 8am ish) and we eat at around 5.30 (ish) i just leave it on....... meal is ready when you get in and the house smells nice when i come in too!!!!!!!