Do you use a slow cooker?

Question

if so, what are some of your favorite recipies that you make at home?

Answer 1

******MY FAVORITE TEXAS CROCK POT CHILI
2 (16 oz.) cans red kidney beans, drained
2 (16 oz.) cans chili beans, drained
2 (14 1/2 oz.) cans tomatoes, cut up
2 lbs. coarsely ground chuck, browned & drained
2 med. onions, chopped
1 green pepper, chopped
2 garlic cloves, crushed
3 tbsp. chili powder
1 tsp. black pepper
1 tsp. cumin
Put all of the ingredients into a 5 quart crock pot in the order listed above. Stir until all is mixed well. Cover. Cook on low for 10 to 12 hours (or high for 5 to 6 hours).

*********CHICKEN CACCIATORE
3 to 4 boneless, skinless chicken breast
1 jar spaghetti sauce
1 sm. can sliced olives
1 sm. onion, chopped
2 each celery stock, sliced
1 c. mushrooms, slices
1 c. carrots (optional) or any vegetable desired
1 pkg. macaroni (shells, elbow, etc.)
Cut chicken in bite size pieces. In crock pot, combine chicken, spaghetti sauce, olives, onion, celery, mushrooms and carrots. Cook on low 6 to 7 hours or high 3 to 4 hours. Cook macaroni. Place macaroni in bowl, spoon Chicken Cacciatore over. Great with french bread and a salad.

Answer 2

I use it all the time especially thru the fall and winter. The kitchen smells so yummy!

Soups, meats and chili are favourites but I've also made apple butter and several different cobblers (so good served warm with whipped cream). Oh and I have a great hot dip recipe too for my small crock pot.

My DH's favorite recipe:


BBQ beef

1 beef roast 3-5 pounds
2 cans beef broth

Put in crock pot cook on High setting for 6 hours.

Drain broth (can be saved and frozen for soup another time). Add 1 bottle prepared BBQ sauce. Cook on Hi for 2 - 3 hours. Beef can be shredded for sandwiches if you like but we eat it in chunks with mac & cheese and cole slaw sides! So tender!

Answer 3

you are able to cook dinner any recipe in a sluggish cooker which you will simmer on precise of the range. the two issues you're able to watch are the liquid and the spices you employ. Liquid would not boil away in the sluggish cooker so decrease a million/4 of the liquid noted as for in the recipe and basically use 3/4.of it. till you will use the liquid as gravy Spices are intensified in a sluggish cooker so use a easy hand. attempt doing a roast in it. placed a layer of onions decrease in jewelry and carrot circles in the backside Then upload the roast pro with salt and pepper and a few crimson meat broth. cook dinner on low for 8 hours

Answer 4

One of my favorites when using a slow cooker is CHICKEN & BISCUITS. Very simple....Buy a small whole chicken...clean it out and wash with cold water. Get yourself about 4 cans of chicken broth...place your chicken in the crock pot/slow cooker then pour your chicken broth over chicken until almost covered (do not add water to your broth) Add salt and pepper to your liking, cook on low...all day...about six hours stirring from time. When done remove chicken from slow cooker and let cool, then peel chicken off the bone and set aside. Use a flour and water mixture to thicken up leftover stock/broth in slowcooker, this will now be your chicken gravy. Add your chicken back into the gravy...make your biscuits and ladle your chicken along with the gravy over your biscuits and enjoy.

Answer 5

Soups especially french onion.
onions
Carrots
Swede
Parsnips
Turnip.
25 g butter
stock or water.
Peel and fry onions in butter till brown add water gradually, stiring this thickens the soup as it cooks. Transfer to slow cooker with peeled cut root veg.
Cook for as long as you like and then blend to a consistency you like.

Pot roast:
2 large onions
1 Sliced leek
1/2 Kg Select root veg like carrots, swede and turnip.
1 KG of small whole potatoes.
Joint of meat (your choice but not poultry)
Fry pan or skillet
Slow cooker or caserole with lid
Small amount of olive oil
Water as required
peel and slice onion fry in a little oil in pan when translucent transfer to pre heated slow cooker and layer base of pot.
Take the meat you are using, wash and pat dry .
Rub joint in oil then in the pan you previously fried the onions sear the meat on all sides for about a minute until brown all over. transfer to the Slow cooker and place on top of onions.
Wash and clean the potatoes and transfer to the pan in which the meat and onions were browned. shake and heat for a minute to tinge the skins, transfer to slow cooker round the meat.
Wash peel and chop the veg to desired size and place ontop of potatoes and meat in slow cooker.
Using small amount of water or stock deglaze the frypan of all the loverly juices and caramel from the onions and veg. transfer the liquid to the slow cooker
Fill the slow cooker to within and inch of the top with the remaining water.
Allow to cook for a minimum of 4 hours.
For a tasty stew substitute diced meat for the joint.
If using poulty I prefer to cook the poulty first right the way through with minimal seasoning, then use in the same way as diced meat.

Hope this helps
:-)

Answer 6

These are some of my favorites...


Favorite Barbecue Chicken

4 to 6 boneless, skinless chicken breasts
1 bottle (16 oz.) barbecue sauce

Put chicken into greased slow cooker. Pour bbq sauce over chicken. Cover and cook on high heat 4-6 hours or on low 8-10 hours. I shred mine 1 hour before serving and have shredded chicken sandwiches. To shred it you use 2 forks and pull the chicken apart...it's really tender and it practically falls apart for you. (I have found that 6 hours on low is perfect…8-10 tends to dry out the chicken)

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Chicken Chili

1 (48 oz.) jar deluxe Great Northern beans
1 (4 oz.) can diced green chilies
2 (10 oz.) cans chicken breast, NOT drained
1/2 cup frozen chopped onion (or raw diced)
1 1/2 tsp. chili powder
1 cup chicken broth
Sour cream

Spray slow cooker with cooking spray

In the cooker add beans, chilies, chicken, onion, chili powder, and broth. Mix well.

Cover and cook on high 3-4 hours -OR- low for 6-9 hours

Stir 1 Tbsp. sour cream into each 1 cup serving

Yield : 9 Servings 1 cup each

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Creamy Chicken Soft Tacos

4 frozen boneless, skinless chicken breasts
1 jar (16 oz.) salsa
1 cup sour cream
6-8 flour tortillas

Place chicken in greased slow cooker. Pour salsa on top. Cover and cook on high heat 6-8 hours or on low 10-12 hours. Shred chicken by pulling apart with 2 forks. During last hour of cooking stir in sour cream.

Put chicken in tortillas with your favorite taco/burrito toppings.

(My husband and I LOVE this recipe…we have found that we needed more like 10 tortilla shells as this made A LOT of chicken…we used black beans, extra sour cream, lettuce and shredded cheese as our toppings…we made burritos instead of tacos…this is SUPER easy to make and it tastes SO good!!)

Answer 7

All the time. They are so easy to just leave on the counter and forget about, while you do other things - like go to work! You can cook just about anything involving meat and/or vegetables. Just make sure there is enough liquid in the pot to keep things from drying out from steam loss. Have fun!

Answer 8

I use a pressure cooker, or even a stock pot on simmer in place of a slow cooker.

Answer 9

I PUT A LARGE CAN OF SAURKRAUT, I CAN OF WATER, COUNTRY RIBS AND LET IT COOK ON MED FOR ABOUT 6-8 HOURS....
i MAKE A POT OF MASHED POTATOES AND SERVE THE SAURKRAUT AND RIBS AND JUICE OVER TOP OF POTATOES....
MMMMMMM

Answer 10

yeap i used to cook some chinese herbal medicines 4 my family twice weekly.