Does anyone have any good slow cooker recipes?

Question

The recipe can include meat or vegetarian styles......

Answer 1

Easy Crockpot Beef Roast

1 chuck or rump Beef Roast (sized for your crockpot)
1/2 Cup of Water
1 Packet of Ranch Dressing Mix
1 Packet of Italian Dressing Mix
1 Packet of Brown Gravy Mix

Put roast in crockpot, pour water around the base. Sprinkle all 3 dry seasoning packets over roast. Cover and cook for 6-7 hours on low. Remove roast to cutting board and let sit 15 minutes; slice thinly across the grain (electric knife works best).

It makes great tasting gravy too, that tastes like you browned it and simmered it all day on the stove.
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Crockpot Brown Sugar Chicken

2 lbs boneless, chicken pieces (I use breasts)
1 c. packed brown sugar
2/3 c. vinegar
1/4 c. lemon lime soda (Sprite)
2-3 T. minced garlic (I used 3 cloves)
2 T. soy sauce
1 t. black pepper

Place chicken in Crockpot. Combine remaining ingredients, pour over chicken. Cover, cook on low for 6-8 hrs.

Serve over rice or noodles.

To thicken sauce, combine 1 1/2 T. cornstarch with 2 T. of water and add to the Crockpot, cook on high for 30 minutes longer.
+Crockpot Brown Sugar Chicken

2 lbs boneless, chicken pieces (I use breasts)
1 c. packed brown sugar
2/3 c. vinegar
1/4 c. lemon lime soda (Sprite)
2-3 T. minced garlic (I used 3 cloves)
2 T. soy sauce
1 t. black pepper

Place chicken in Crockpot. Combine remaining ingredients, pour over chicken. Cover, cook on low for 6-8 hrs.

Serve over rice or noodles.

To thicken sauce, combine 1 1/2 T. cornstarch with 2 T. of water and add to the Crockpot, cook on high for 30 minutes longer.
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Slow Cooker Barbecue Beans

Prep: 5 min., Cook: 1 hr. This recipe is perfect for leftover barbecue. Although it calls for pork, feel free to use chopped or shredded chicken, turkey, or brisket. If time is a concern, pick up meat from your favorite barbecue joint (just make sure you get it without sauce to prevent the beans from being too soupy).

1/2 pound chopped or shredded barbecue pork
1 (32-ounce) can pork and beans, undrained
1 (14 1/2-ounce) can diced tomatoes with green peppers and onions, drained
1/4 cup spicy brown mustard
3 tablespoons brown sugar
2 tablespoons Worcestershire sauce
1 tablespoon molasses (optional)

Stir together first 6 ingredients, and, if desired, molasses in a 6-quart slow cooker. Cover and cook at HIGH 1 hour. (You can keep this recipe warm on LOW for up to 2 hours before serving.)

Yield: Makes 8 servings

--Southern Living, JULY 2005
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Beef With Red Wine Sauce
--Southern Living, FEBRUARY 2006

Prep: 15 min., Cook: 6 hrs.

3 pounds boneless beef chuck roast, cut into 1-inch pieces
1 medium onion, sliced
1 pound fresh mushrooms, sliced
1 (1.61-ounce) package brown gravy mix
1 (10 1/2-ounce) can beef broth
1 cup red wine
2 Tbsp. tomato paste
1 bay leaf
Hot cooked egg noodles or rice
Garnish: chopped fresh parsley

Place first 3 ingredients in a 6-quart slow cooker.
Whisk together gravy mix and next 3 ingredients; pour evenly over beef and vegetables. Add bay leaf.
Cover and cook on HIGH 6 hours, or LOW for 9 hours. Remove and discard bay leaf. Serve over noodles. Garnish, if desired.

Yield: Makes 6 servings

Answer 2

Exact recipes, are tough to give, I was chef for many years in Canada and I find that anything you can make on the stove or in the oven is a crockpot option.

I am into one with beans, lentils and meat that is more for long cooking processes, especially beef or pork, I also make currys, veggy chili, meatless cabbage rolls, baked beans sans pork.

Be as creative as you want, brown your meats or if doing veg dishes, saute the onions and garlic if used, they just give things a hearty taste, start on high, then down to low and let them cook, stir of you can but with the stoneware crocks they are pretty good for being non-stick.

Even desserts are options, rice pudding, apple sauce and those cakes with the sauce in them, I am from Canada and they are available here.

Answer 3

Crock Pot Sweet and sour Chicken

4 medium carrots sliced
1 celery rib sliced
1/2 cup chopped green peppers
1/2 cup chopped onion
3 boneless chicken breast halved
1/2 tsp salt
1 ( 10 oz) jar sweet and sour sauce
1601/2 oz can pineapple chunks
3 tbsp corn starch
3 tbsp cold water
1 cup hot cooked rice

in slow cooker place the carrots,celery,green peppers and onion.
top with chicken and sprinkle with salt.
pour the sweet and sour sauce and the pineapple all over.
cover and cook on low for 7-8 hours.
remove chicken and keep warm.
blend cornstarch and water,stir into juices in slow cooker.
cover and cook on high 10-15 Min's or until thickened, serve over the rice.

you could use noodles if you prefer

Answer 4

Stuffed Bell Peppers (vegetarian)

1 can of diced tomatoes
5 cloves of garlic, minced
3 cups cooked rice
1 can of chili beans in chili sauce (no meat products at all)
4 bell peppers (green and/or red) cored and seeded
1 cup of cheese, any kind (optional)

Dump can of diced tomatoes into bottom of slow cooker and add garlic. Mix rice and beans and stuff inside peppers. Place peppers on top of tomatoes. Cook on high for 2-3 hours or low for 5-6 hours.

When dishing up onto plates, place tomato/garlic mixture onto each pepper and top with cheese.

Answer 5

CROCK POT CHILI
I promise you that you have not had great chili until you have cooked it for 24hours in a crock pot!!

* Dice up the meat into 1/2" cubes ( use chuck roast, pork loin, and sweet italian sausage.)
* Add your crushed tomatoes, onions.
* Add cumin, chili powder, salt, pepper, mustard.
* Dice up one whole jalapeno and add.
* Add a good octoberfest beer.
* Add beans a few hours before it finished. Use black beans
in stead of kidney beans.
* Let it simmer on low for a day in the crock pot
and your chili will be the talk of your party!!!

Answer 6

I LOVE those Crock-pot meals that you buy in the freezer section. They are pricey, but they feed six when you add some rolls. They taste great and they are so easy on a busy day. This week we had Maire Callendars Chicken and Dumplings. Yummy!