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Steak Pie...

About a 1lb of cheapest stewing steak, flour and brown in olive or sunflower oil, add a chopped onion and garlic clove and half a cinnamon stick. Add a couple of oxo cubes, some chopped carrots and cook on auto for at least 4 hours. The longer it cooks for, the more tender it is and the more it breaks down and becomes yummy. I buy pastry ready made, roll it out into star and heart shapes with cookie cutters and serve them with it. Hubby does the mashed potatoes..

Pink.

Hi burp,

I've added your thread to the Slow cooker recipe thread where you'll find lots of tried and tested slow cooker recipes. It's also worth a browse through The Complete Slow Cooker Collection and The Slow cooker recipe index for some cheap and easy slow cooker recipes.

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Olliebeak

lbt wrote: »

Hi Olliebeak

Can I ask which soup recipes are most popular/work best? I have just made a sweet potato and chickpea soup which was most unpopular in my house!! :eek:

Hello lbt - I suppose it always depends on what your family likes to eat. I keep my chicken carcasses in the freezer (crush them down and put in a large ziplock bag till I have three of them) and then make a huge pot of chicken stock with them and some chopped onion and veg peelings (that I also freeze and keep to one side) - but I tend not to use potato peelings as I find they put too much starch into the liquid.

I also put to one side half of the stock from cooking ham shanks as that makes another good soup base.

I also like to do my veggies in the microwave and keep the stock from cooking those as well.

So that's three different lots of stock - chicken/ham/veg which can all be kept frozen in their own labelled containers in the freezer - and all of them have 'come for free' as by-products of other cooking.

From those I make soup with whatever I have plenty of. I use mostly dried mixed herbs for extra flavour (because I don't add salt to anything at all). I always have lots of 'soup and broth mix' in the cupboard along with bags of lentils, pearl barley and yellow split peas. The other thing that I buy when making stews and soups is celery because it does add a lovely flavour - even if it disappears to almost nothing in the final result.

I think my biggest success with soup was the carrot and coriander - going to try carrot and butterbean next .

SmileyH

Olliebeak, when you use the soup/broth mix do you have to boil and soak it first or can you just bung it in the slow cooker with the stock? Your ideas for making stocks are great. I'm going to give them a try from now on!

BP56134

Having spent an hour trawling through the slow cooker threads and got nowhere can I ask straight out for a good chilli or curry vegetarian recipe please? I do have some, but they are mainly more child friendly, and I have often done the 'throw everything in' method, but I have people over to dinner at the weekend and we are out all day and they are veggie, so I'm after something very nice. Any ideas? I'd much prefer not to go down the tofu or quorn route either, but keep it properly vegetable. Thanks.
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duchessofmanx

This is gorgeous;
Sundried tomato and chicken pilaf

2-4 chicken breast fillets
1 onion
1 garlic clove sliced/chopped
400g tin tomatoes
100g sundried tomatoes (in oil)drained and sliced
2 teaspoons pesto
1 pint chicken stock
150g basmati rice
50g wild rice
salt and pepper

1. fry the chicken till lightly browned in a pan then put to one side.
2. fry onion and garlic till brown. Add canned tomatoes, sundried tomatoes and pesto. add bit of salt and pepper, bring to the boil.
3. pour into the slow cooker and stir in the hot stock.
4. rinse the rice well and stir into the slow cooker pot.
5.put chicken on top of rice, just below level of liquid so it doesn't dry out.
6.put lid on and cook on high for 2-3 hours untill chicken is cooked and rice is tender.

serve with crusty bread

I added some paprika the second time I made this dish to make it a bit spicier. everyone loved it
enjoy!

Bongedone

That does sound nice duchessofmanx.

Welcome to the board !

Lennys_Shinpad

Galtizz wrote: »

I'm giving meatballs a go today.

Mince, breadcrumbs, onion, garlic, cheese, egg all mashed together and made into lots of little balls. put in the bottom of the cooker. Tin toms :rolleyes:, ice cube of red wine and some basil all poured over. It's cooking at the min and it smells divine (if a little garlicy). It's made loads and so they'll be some to freeze too.

Hi Galtizz, just wondering how long you cooked the meatballs for. I've got some burger that have been frozen for ages (the weather put paid to our bbq) and I fancy making some meatballs out of them. So how long do you reckon?

Cheers,

Lenny.

scouserwench

I just buy a tin of sausage cassorole(from Asda) and a packet of cheapo Mash...(Makes a Dinner) lol and throw it in the slow cooker when I cant be arsed to stand and cook lol or just stuff in it for like curry....

azlan

Hi,
While looking for recipe ebooks, I found this one - 1300 recipes for slow cookers................ it's a zip file and the download window should come up automatically (first time I've tried to do summat like this!!)

http://www.allforwomen.com.au/go/slow-cooker-recipes