In my slow cooker today...

misshighlander

I've got diced/cubed chicked, tin of tomatoes with chilli, peas, sweetcorn, onions, couple cloves of garlic, various spicy spices & a bit of water. See how it turns out. Plus I'll be able to freeze it, & use on other days. But only if it turns out ok though

ForeverHopeful_3

The coca cola chicken was indeed a disaster. I thought the coke was supposed to become like bbq sauce

I still served the chicken to my kids with veg and potatoes and they actually really liked it. They prefer no sauce and it tasted quite sweet. I didn't like it though.

No SC meal tonight. Just leftovers from the freezer.

elf06

Oh no thats a shame - glad it wasnt just me tho!

My SC has washing up liquid and water intoday

Little_miss_sunshine_2

I cooked chicken thighs with HG carrots, thyme and a little water in my newish SC last night- I think I overcooked the chicken though- it was tender but quite dry after 5 hours on slow. I was a bit disappointed but I'll try chicken again perhaps for less time or maybe I'll use chicken legs next time.

I think it'll take a while to get used to how long everything takes to cook- I suspect my SC is relatively hot even on the low setting.

RainyWednesday

I want to make a kind of chinese chicken tomorrow. I have chicken thighs, ginger, garlic, soy sauce errr honey - will it be okay if I just chuck it all in with some water?

Sublime_2

That sounds nice. Try it and see!

missychrissy

using your slow cooker is just a case of try it and see. I can honestly say I have had nothing that wasn't really edible.

One of my favourites is a gammon joint to which I add a bag of split peas (soaked overnight), or a bag of marrowfat peas (soaked overnight), or a bag of chick peas (again soaked overnight). To this I always add onions and whatever veg I have, in particular anything that needs using up and herbs and spices. I never cook the gammon/bacon/ham shank on its own as it's just as cheap to cook pulses and veg along with it. This can be frozen in portions and used as a base for soups and casseroles or as it comes out of sc. Sometimes a gammon joint can be a little salty but this can be absorbed by adding potatoes to it.

Olliebeak

Was the Coca-cola chicken recipe designed for the Slow Cooker?

I only ask because a friend of mine used to do this many years ago in the oven (Coca-cola and a bottle of ketchup turned into some kind of barbecue sauce) and it always turned out great. Was just thinking that if it wasn't a Slow Cooker recipe, then maybe the liquid didn't evaporate as it normally would .

ForeverHopeful_3

Olliebeak wrote: »

Was the Coca-cola chicken recipe designed for the Slow Cooker?

I only ask because a friend of mine used to do this many years ago in the oven (Coca-cola and a bottle of ketchup turned into some kind of barbecue sauce) and it always turned out great. Was just thinking that if it wasn't a Slow Cooker recipe, then maybe the liquid didn't evaporate as it normally would .

That could certainly have been the problem. I don't think I added enough ketchup either. I think I'll just stick to bbq sauce next time though. Maybe some of that reggae reggae stuff (yum)

Today I have, chicken breast, tinned tomatoes, potatoes, curry powder, mango chutney and apple simmering away

I've had this before and know it's lovely served with some wholegrain rice.

Claire_Bear

I've just been given a slow cooker by my OH's parents One of those infomercial things came on the tele, thinking of all the good things you lot have been saying about them, I said 'I'd quite like a slow cooker' and they said they had one that they never used so I could take it :j

Just copy and pasted loads of recipes into a word folder, ready to write down for my recipe file, can't wait to get started!