Slow cooker advice needed - urgent!

noonesperfect

We've both gone down with the dreaded winter lurgy - the common cold!

I don't feel like standing chopping veges or being very MS at all right now...:eek:

I've got some chicken fillets, mushrooms and a jar of chicken casserole sauce. Do you think I could throw the whole lot in the slow cooker, as is, for tonight's tea?

I'll cut the chicken up a bit as OH prefers it. which of 3 heat settings (low, medium, high) would you go for if you were going to leave it to cook for about 5 hours?

HariboJunkie

Yes you can bung it all in. I'd cook it on low if the chicken is chopped.

Hope you feel better soon.

dearbarbie

yum, bung it all in on low and it should be fine, season it well and maybe add some tarragon or other herbs?

lil_me

Being chicken I usually cook on low then high towards the end for a bit, just to make sure gets up to temperature.

firemeup

lil_me wrote: »

Being chicken I usually cook on low then high towards the end for a bit, just to make sure gets up to temperature.

I usually do it the other way round, to give it boost when its first cooking

noonesperfect

Thanks all, it worked brilliantly, though I couldn't taste much!

I threw in some pearl barley to give it that homemade feel - I'll have to try it again when I can taste food. I did end up cooking it on ful power most of the time as I was doing dumplings, they took ages.

Katinkka

Do you fry the chicken in a pan first or add it to the cooker raw?

lil_me

Dumplings I always do on high. Chicken I sometimes fry off lightly first if adding to a hot stock. Sometimes I don't bother.

noonesperfect

Katinkka wrote: »

Do you fry the chicken in a pan first or add it to the cooker raw?

I put it in raw together with quartered mushrooms, two good teaspoons washed pearl barley a good pinch of tarragon and it was a bottle of Bisto country chicken casserole sauce.

To lil_me

The handbook that came with the slow cooker recommended that as well. An hour before I wanted to put the dumplings in I turned the heat back up to high (having turned it down for a short while) and made sure the casserole was bubbling, but the dumplings still took a good hour (the ones round the edges being cooked long before the ones in the middle and I resisted removing the lid till then like a good girl