Slow Cooker - The Recipe Collection

jellynose

boo81 wrote: »

I do mine in the oven jellynose, you cook them in a sauce and take about an hour after marinating. Really lovely......fancying some now!

Thank you :beer:

I will give that a go.

Cheers

Bongedone

Refund_Queen wrote: »

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

I regularly make the one from Delia Smiths website: -

http://www.deliaonline.com/recipes/boeuf-bourguignon-easy,1817,RC.html


Follow these alterations for the slow cooker: -

I Keep the liquid level the same.

They don't make the M&S onions anymore. Just get small onions in balsamic vinegar (the smaller the better). Waitrose do a good one.

Note she adds the flour to thicken at the start. Don't do this. Thicken it with cornflour at the end. Less chance of it sticking to the slow cooker.


The recipe will take 8-9 hours on a low setting.

Good luck

organic_wanabe

Thanks for that recipe Bongedone - it sounds a good one to try. Would I be right in assuming that you add the balsamic vinegar as well as the onions, or do you drain them?

sandy2_2

This is a recipe I make quite often here in Spain. You can eat it with chunky bread to mop up the juices, or have regular veggies or jacket potato

Pkt of lean slices belly pork or lean diced pork
packet or tin of chopped tomatoes or passata
garlic
sliced onions
sliced mushrooms and small diced peppers (optional)

1. turn on SC and empty tomatoes into it
2 cut belly pork into smallish pieces (1inch) and brown with onions and garlic (mushrooms, peppers if used)
3 add to SC

I usually cook for about 5 hours or longer. The sauce should end up quite thick, so check about an hour before you want to eat and if not thick enough add cornflour to thicken. Check flavour add a little sugar if needed and a stock cube if you want.

This is a tradional Tapa recipe served in small saucer sized quantities with a glass of wine or beer

Bongedone

organic_wanabe wrote: »

Thanks for that recipe Bongedone - it sounds a good one to try. Would I be right in assuming that you add the balsamic vinegar as well as the onions, or do you drain them?

Organic Wanabe

You drain the onions and add a couple of tablespoons of the balsamic back into the recipe. I first got the recipe from the Sunday Mail's You magazine and it did mention that. Why it does not online who know's ?

lbt_2

Wow! What lovely recipes. I have just started thinking about using mine.

I am a novice though - and mine confuses me a bit!!!! I have the Anthony Worrall Thomson one which has a low, high and auto setting but according to the recipe book that comes with it the auto setting takes longer than the low setting!

I would have expected the auto setting to be somewhere in between the low and high setting :huh:

Has anyone else got this one?

chaz19

I got a great recipe from here some time ago.

Baked Ham

Boneless ham (uncooked about 4-6lbs) from butchers.
2 cups brown sugar
1 can diced pineapple (not drained)
1/2 cup water (about)

I normally boil up the ham and discard water once but repeat if butcher advises that it may be quite salty.

Place ham into slow cooker. Add pineapple & water, then sprinkle sugar over the meat. Cover & cook on low for about 6 hours.


Smells delish whilst cooking and meat comes out sweet,juicy and easy to slice.

Lasted us days. We had with mash and veg (juices poured over like a gravy), Chicken, ham and leek pie, in sarnies with coleslaw etc.

lbt_2

Thanks Chaz. Sounds lovely. I'll try it out.

You sound like a good cook ... chicken, ham and leek pie sounds great. Do you follow recipes or make it up as you go along?

Olliebeak

Hello lbt - Mines an A W-T slow-cooker same as yours I guess (I understood it to mean that the auto setting starts off high for a while and then lowers the temp automatically when the heat is up to correct temperature).


I've had my slow-cooker for about 4 weeks and it's been sat there laughing at me ever since!

Sooooo, yesterday did a trip to Asda and decided that it was time to make or break ........

Bought a small piece of Beef Potroast and a Smartprice Root Veg Pack, a leek and a bag of SP potatoes.

I've put the following into the slow cooker and now waiting for the results:

3 parsnips (peeled and cut into bitesize pieces)
1 onion (peeled and finely chopped)
1 small swede (peeled and chopped)
3 or 4 carrots (peeled and chopped)
1 large leek (trimmed and cut into half inch diagonal slices)
2 large potatoes cut into pieces (bigger than other veggies)

I've sort of bedded the pot roast into the middle of everything but on top of the root veggies (I've heard that they should be on the bottom because they take longest to cook!).

If this is a success I'll let you all know how it goes - it may just spur me on to try other stuff as well. (got some minced beef in freezer, some diced turkey thigh, and 250grms of stewing steak)

I've covered the root veggies with water (hope that is enough but I didn't want to put too much in) and switched onto auto - it will probably be on for about 8 hours or so.


Am going out later so will have a discreet look through the lid before we leave and may have to open it (yeah I know an extra 20 mins-30 mins cooking time! but I'm a bit nervous about all this). I don't use salt in any cooking at all but with all those veggies I think there should be enough real flavours in there. Maybe I should have used a vegetable stock cube (but they have salt in them!).


Do any of you regular slow-cooker users have any ideas about how to use soup and broth mix in them (those mixed packs of lentils, split peas, barley etc.? I suppose we still have to pre-soak it before using!

LOOYATES

Hi ollie, unfortunately that broth mix does have to be soaked overnight which really does my head in!!!! so do the lentils, so i usually make a tonne and freeze whatever ive made, i buy a giant smartprice turkey drumstick for a pound and bung veg and stock and smartprice bacon bits in when the drumstick is done i pull off the meat and stick it back in with rice or pasta for another hour or so it makes a tonne with just one leg. i also make curry with the cheapest beef i can find usually shin, coat in flour and bung in with veg , onion and stock then after a couple of hours throw in a 33p sachet of asda instant curry mix to thicken and hey presto after a nother couple of hours its lovely, if im feeling fruity i add some raisins!!!! i love my slow cooker i use it about 3 times a week have even done fishermans pie in it !;)