Slow Cooker - The Recipe Collection

1 1/2 lbs minced beef
2 medium onions
1 jar tomato and chilli sauce ( I use sacla cherry tomato and chilli)
1 tin chopped tomatoes
tomato puree
chilli puree
1 tin kidney beans
red wine
worcester sauce

Method
turn slow cooker on to low setting
finely chop onions and soften in 1 tablespoon oil in a pan
put onion in slow cooker
brown off mince and add to onion in slow cooker
add jar of sauce, tin of tomatoes, squeeze of tomato puree and squeeze of chilli puree (to taste)
add a good slug of red wine and a good dash of worcester sauce.

Stir well and leave to cook in slow cooker for approx 3 hours. After 3 hours add tin of kidney beans and stir well into mince. Leave for a further hour. Season to taste if required and serve with boiled rice.

Serves 4- 6 people



Enjoy

Hello! I posted a while ago about whether or not to buy a slow cooker as I am vegetarian.

Well I made a lovely dish the other day and thought I would post it here!

I don't know whether it "exists" in England by a different name, but its a traditional Guernsey dish called "Bean Jar", but made vegetarian!

BEAN JAR

Ing: 2 Carrots, 2 potatoes, 1 onion, 1 to 1 + 1/2 packets of Linda Mc Cartney / Quorn sausages, 500g pack mixed dry beans, stock, herbs.

Don't forget to soak the beans, then boil them and rinse all the nasty froth away! And defrost the sausages while your at it!

Chop up carrots, potatoes and onion (plus any other veg you fancy!). Throw into the microwave (or a saucepan) for a few minutes.

Chuck in to the slow cooker with the beans, defrosted sausages, and stock. I can't give you an exact amount of stock - just remember the beans will absorb a bit but you don't want soup! Add herbs and whatever flavouring you can find - but not salt as it can make the beans go chewy! (You can add salt after if you want it!)

I cooked it overnight - probably 6 to 9 hours would be fine!

Will feed 5 or 6 hungry people, or in my case 2 people plus the freezer!!

I've got both listed (in different recipes) in my book.

Cooking apples for baked apples

Crisp eating apples for apples in rum.

they're supposed to be the symbols for ampersand (and symbol, above no 7 on your keyboard) and double quotes (above no 2 on your keys).

It's the forums way of making sure people dont use HTML code, but it's pretty buggy, in theory it shouldn't show up like that.

C-Q Brambley cooking apples are the best - cheap too.