Slow Cooker - The Recipe Collection

oldbill1969

Vashti wrote: »

This one would freeze no bother, for 6.5 slow cooker

2lbs stewing steak
One carrot
One chopped onion
3-4 tablespoons flour
1 12oz can beer
1 packet of French Onion or Oxtail packet soup (or use 2 Batchelors cup a soup packs)
Bovril

Put the flour in a plastic bag, add salt and pepper, chuck in the beef and shake it till the beef is coated. Drink the beer. (NO!!!! Joking) Mix ALL the beer, the packet soup and the bovril. Put the beef, carrot and onion in the slow cooker, pour over the gravy, mix well and cook on low for 8 hours.

At the expense of sounding stupid, when you refer to beer what type do you mean ?

Vashti

Last but not least

2.5 lbs chicken breast, cut into bite size bits
1 clove garlic, crushed or teaspoon garlic puree
good pinch thyme
six slices of bacon, diced
4 spring onions, chopped
a handful of whole button mushrooms
1/4 pint chicken stock (use one Oxo or Knorr stock cube)
eight small white pickling onions/shalots (optional) peeled and whole
Good splosh red wine
8 small new potatoes

Gently fry bacon bits and spring onion in a frying pan, then put in slow cooker. Add chicken to frying pan and brown, add to cooker. Put whole onions, mushrooms potatoes and garlic in slow cooker. Add the thyme and stock, give it a stir and cook on low for 6-8 hours. During last hour, add red wine.

oldbill1969

Vashti wrote: »

If you have plenty herbs in your spice rack, try this one
2lbs stewing steak
2 tablespoons flour
2 tablespoons butter
2 sticks celery, chopped
One onion, chopped
Quarter pint Oxo or Bovril mixed with water
Good shake of thyme, marjoram and oregano
2 teaspoons french mustard (or dijon, not English)
2 tablespoons lemon juice

Brown the beef cubes in the butter in a frying pan. Place everything APART from the lemon juice in the cooker, cover and cook on low 6-8 hours. Stir in lemon juice just before serving

These recipes don't look to complicated,just what is needed, if I can get a few idiot proof ones I'll go on to try the more complicated ones. I just need the simple uncomplicated but tasty ones to give me the confidence. Thanks

Vashti

oldbill1969 wrote: »

At the expense of sounding stupid, when you refer to beer what type do you mean ?

Probably dark ale or stout would be best.

You could probably add some tomato puree to that beef in beer recipe as well if you like tomatoey stews just a tablespoon or so in with all the other stuff.

oldbill1969

Vashti wrote: »

Last but not least

2.5 lbs chicken breast, cut into bite size bits
1 clove garlic, crushed or teaspoon garlic puree
good pinch thyme
six slices of bacon, diced
4 spring onions, chopped
a handful of whole button mushrooms
1/4 pint chicken stock (use one Oxo or Knorr stock cube)
eight small white pickling onions/shalots (optional) peeled and whole
Good splosh red wine
8 small new potatoes

Gently fry bacon bits and spring onion in a frying pan, then put in slow cooker. Add chicken to frying pan and brown, add to cooker. Put whole onions, mushrooms potatoes and garlic in slow cooker. Add the thyme and stock, give it a stir and cook on low for 6-8 hours. During last hour, add red wine.

Very nice, I'm starving already. Thanks

Vashti

oldbill1969 wrote: »

These recipes don't look to complicated,just what is needed, if I can get a few idiot proof ones I'll go on to try the more complicated ones. I just need the simple uncomplicated but tasty ones to give me the confidence. Thanks

You're welcome...hope they turn out ok...just remember to stir everything at the start (if you do the mustard one, stir it well into the Oxo stock before you put it in the pot..it looks lumpy but it will melt into the gravy....) because you should not keep taking the lid off to check it! The lid forms a vacuum to keep the flavours in. If you can't wait to check it, wait until at least six hours of cooking has gone by.

And don't be tempted to put more fluid in - it doesn't need it

cheers
:beer: .

mah_jong

I had a Tower for umpteen years, it was a great slow cooker, my replacement, (after its untimely death - its murder is still a sore point!!) is an incinerater by comparison.

The recipe I followed to day, needed extra water. It was cooked in 5 hours (recipe said 7-9 hours)

However I think this is unusual. The first time you use yours, I suggest you are in the house at the time....though don't keep lifting the lid to check!

iglimpse

I dusted down my slow cooker last week. Found an incredibly simple recipe on MSE which I have to recommend. Just put in a whole chicken and a couple of veg with a bit of seasoning. No water needed. Few hrs later, chiken just falls of the bone and you have the basics of a meal or soup. So easy

Refund_Queen

Has anyone got a good recipe for beef stew / bourginon?
I'm ok at the ingredients part but not the liquid to use and how much,
Any ideas please!!
Thanks x

poodlehorse

I am pretty new to slow cooking even though I have had one for years and my mum swore by hers. However due to renovations I don't have a cooker at the moment so am having throw myself into the SC and DH is delighted that it is getting some use finally. We have done a whole chicken in this week and it was wonderful and a brisket which was also pretty fab and tonight I made up a recipe and it turned out so well I have decided to post it here.

I bunged 4 chicken fillets into the SC with sliced onion and 1 clove garlic (I sliced thinly as I couldn't be bothered with the garlic crusher), a sprinkling of thyme, a small tin of pineapple rings and their juice( I just chopped them in the tin into chunks, some lemon juice and because I went a bit mad on the lemon I thought I had better add some maple syrup to balance it out a bit, seasoned with lots of black pepper and some salt, shoved it on high for a bit until it started to really simmer and then turned it onto low for the rest of the afternoon. About an hour before I wanted it I decided it looked a bit beige so sliced some red pepper into it and added a wee bit more water from the kettle as I wanted lots of sauce. I then thickened with cornflour and turned back onto high and added a bit of sugar as it was still a bit tart (told you I went a bit mad with the LJ). Served with rice and garlic bread it was so lovely. And there is enough left for tomorrow so no cooking for me then, yippee. I think it would work well with lots of other veg in there like baby corn or sugar snap peas so long as you didn't add them to the last hour maybe. Our fridge is a bit bare until I go shopping though so that is all I had.

Hope this is of interest to someone. Oh and I have the large MR SC.