cheap recipes for a crowd?

Question

I am having 5 hungry adults and a kid over Saturday night and I need to fix something that everybody can eat on all night, but it needs to be cheap. I was thinking something like a big pot of soup or something in the crockpot. I have one person in the group that cant eat hamburger meat and I also do not have my oven working at the moment, so something in a skillet or crockpot please. Any ideas??? I am stumped. Thanks : )

Answer 1

I think a big pot of soup is a great idea. I was going to suggest chili, but obviously that has ground beef. Unless you choose to make it a vegetrian chili, which is still delicious. Another option is a potato soup or clam chowder. Serve bread and salad and you've got a whole meal. Good luck.

Answer 2

This recipe is inexpensive and yummy. No hamburger. Uses a lemonade base in the crockpot to flavor the chicken. Make rice on the stovetop.

Crockpot Chicken Limone
1/4 cup flour
1 1/4 teaspoon salt
4 pounds chicken pieces
2 tablespoons vegetable oil 6 ounces lemonade frozen concentrate, thawed
3 tablespoons brown sugar
3 tablespoons ketchup
2 tablespoons water


Combine flour with salt; coat chicken thoroughly. Brown chicken pieces in oil and drain. Stir together lemonade, brown sugar, ketchup and vinegar. Place chicken in crockpot and pour lemonade mixture over it. Cook on high 3 to 4 hours. Serve over cooked rice.

Slap a big garden salad together on the side, maybe some chocolate pudding for dessert, and bam, you're done.

Answer 3

Chicken pot pie ... you can cook the chicken ( I use boneless skinless chicken tenders or breasts )overnight in
chicken broth with carrots, potatoes, celery( or celery salt)
onions in the crock pot . Then using biscuit mix, make the dough for rolled biscuits.
Roll out, ( may need to add more flour) cut into 1" squares. Take most of the broth from the
crock pot, place in large stovetop pot and bring to a boil.
( crock pot doesn't get hot enough quickly to cook the dough)
Add dough squares to boiling broth and cook till done
( about 5-7 minutes). Add everything all together.
Serve and enjoy. ( Sometimes the biscuit mix will make the broth look creamy) This is a Penna. Dutch Favorite

Answer 4

Enchilada Casserole

1 (14 oz.) can tomatoes -- 1 small chopped onion -- 1 clove minced garlic -- ½ tsp. ground red pepper, ½ tsp. salt -- 6 oz can tomato paste -- ½ lb. ground steak, browned -- 1 can beans, drained 1 pkg. dry taco seasoning mix -- 2 cups shredded cheese -- 9 corn tortillas

Sauce: Blend tomatoes with onion and garlic in blender. Pour in medium saucepan. Add pepper, salt and tomato paste. Heat until boiling, then simmer 5 to 10 minutes. Place 3 tortillas in bottom of crockpot. Layer on tortillas 1/3 of ground steak, 1/3 tomato sauce and 1/3 Cheddar cheese, then 3 more tortillas. Repeat each layer 2 more times, ending with cheese. Cover and cook on low 6 to 8 hours. Serves 4.

More Crockpot Recipes
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Answer 5

Chicken Gumbo would work perfect.
All you need is rue (you can buy it on the baking ilse) boil a whole chicken, add diced celery, onion, garlic (4 cloves), bell pepper, salt pepper, cayanne pepper and any other seasoning you want to add. You can get the veggi's in the frozen isle if you do not want to dice. Debone the chicken add about 6 tbls of rue or more all the veggi's then cook as long as you want (the longer you cook it the better it gets) you can also add other types of meat or seafood if you would like. Cook some rice to go with it.

Answer 6

Crockpot Potato Soup
You could double this depending on the size of your crock.

INGREDIENTS:
6 med. potatoes, diced
3 carrots, sliced
3 ribs celery, chopped
1/2 cup chopped onion
6 cups water
4 chicken bouillon cubes, granules, or equivalent chicken base
parsley flakes
2/3 cup evaporated milk

PREPARATION:
In crockpot, combine diced potatoes, sliced carrots, chopped celery and onion, water, chicken bouillon or base, and parsley flakes. Cook 6 1/2 to 9 hours on LOW or 3 to 4 hours on high. 30 to 40 minutes before soup is done (20 minutes if cooking on HIGH), add evaporated milk.
Serves 6 to 8.

Answer 7

Potato soup.

1 lb velveeta cheese
1lb pepper jack cheese
8 - 10 med potatos
cream of celery
cream of onion

cut potatos in chunks and water about 1 in about top of potatos boil until done DO NOT drain. Add all the other stuff. Stir until melted.

Thats it, serves anywhere from 5-8 people. (really hungry people) also really good with grilled ham and cheese sandwitches. Also you can add bacon to the soup and its good too.

yumm!!

Answer 8

I would go with a soup or stew in the crockpot,rolls and green salad.

Answer 9

A really big pot of chicken stew. Or better yet Brunswick stew.Oh Oh. Now I'm hungry.

Answer 10

Make a big pot of beef stew ang eat with crackers.