In my slow cooker today...

skysky69

I think I am going to try the Chicken Risotton recipe that was mentioned earlier in the thread for tea tonight. Might add a couple of extra ingredients - see what happens!

NZK83

In my slow cooker today I have a chickpea and spinach curry!!

Nichola x

Drea

cheerfulness4 wrote: »

Love the idea of the chicken wings in soy sauce, garlic etc drea - could you give me any quantities?
Still a tad nervous with my SC. Not sure if I'm supposed to add liquid in there somewhere or just the honey, onions, soy etc.

Sorry, I forget to check this thread. Thanks kidcat for posting the recipe link, I'm glad you liked them

The soy sauce/honey makes enough liquid for it, I was surprised how much of the sauce there was when I came home from work that night. I missed out the ginger because I don't like it but followed the rest of the recipe and it worked fine

Drea

Will be doing a joint of beef in mine tomorrow. I'm thinking around 9 hours? Can I put the potatoes, carrots, etc in with the meat? We don't have the cooker working at the moment so no oven to do roast veg.

No slow cooker today, having fajitas

kidcat

I skipped the ginger too, because I really dont like ginger and also didnt have any in anyway!
Not sure about the potatoes but you can put veg in I would think. I dont really use it for joints as I prefer to roast them, I would guess that boiling the potatoes for a few minutes first to soften them would be a good idea. YOu could try putting the veg in a seperate bowl inside the SC as someone suggested earlier? Depends on how big you r meat is and the size of your SC bowl though.

Drea

kidcat wrote: »

I skipped the ginger too, because I really dont like ginger and also didnt have any in anyway!
Not sure about the potatoes but you can put veg in I would think. I dont really use it for joints as I prefer to roast them, I would guess that boiling the potatoes for a few minutes first to soften them would be a good idea. YOu could try putting the veg in a seperate bowl inside the SC as someone suggested earlier? Depends on how big you r meat is and the size of your SC bowl though.

Thanks, I suppose I could slice the potatoes like I did when I made my curry, that worked well...

carole.uk

hi just put loads of veggies, spices and a large bag of soya mince in mine for tomorrows lunch with new potatoes, then will make cottage pies with the left overs to freeze

skysky69

I just followed the risotto recipe from earlier but it said it only needed to be on for 2 hours. I part cooked the chicken and the chunks were really small and I have just eaten it, but on one last piece there was a strange pink line - is there any way the chicken would not have been cooked through properly after 2 hours or is this just a sinewy bit? Hopefully I haven't just poisoned my family!

fletch3163

In my slow cooker right now is soapy water Before that was some rubber chicken found in the freezer, 2 onions =, a half bag of last week's Lidl salad potatoes and a 75p Sharwoods jar of Thai Green Curry. My Goodness what a nice dinner I had. Teamed it up with some Basmati rice boil in the bag I got for 70p at B&M a couple of weeks ago and a garlic naan. IMHO it was of carry out standard and it cost about a fifth of the price. Smashing!

gairlochgal

I did a kind of lamb hotpot with sliced potatoes, carrots, onion, and 2 big barnsley chops on top above the liquid. Cooked all day in the SC, drained off the juices to make a gravy (or maybe it was a jus!), and transferred the food into a hot oven to crisp up. Was really delicious