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Related: About this forumBest, or Favorite slow cooker recipes?
I am looking to expand my horizons a little bit, and have found that when I throw something in the slow cooker, my day goes easier (dinner's already handled) and I wind up being more productive.
So, aside from my favorite of old fashioned pot roast like my Grand Mom Milly taught me, and it's descendant Mississippi Rot Roast, what are your favorite slow cooker recipes (no, it does not have to be beef...in fact, I'd like alternatives)
Here is the Mississippi Pot Roast recipe to get things started
http://belleofthekitchen.com/2016/04/13/mississippi-pot-roast/
rusty quoin
(6,133 posts)I will try it. I especially like the slow cooker doing all the work on a cheap beef cut.
LaydeeBug
(10,291 posts)rusty quoin
(6,133 posts)and I was taught that browning the roast adds flavor. Other things like flouring the roast before browning in some recipes, I just figured it was about thickening the gravy.
I will learn more by trying your way.
Freddie
(9,231 posts)Tasty and a nice change from "regular" chili:
Stir together in crock pot:
1 can diced tomatoes (with juice)
1 small can plain tomato sauce
1 can kidney beans, drained
1 can black beans, drained
1 can corn, drained
1 small jar salsa
1 packet taco seasoning mix
1 small onion, chopped
Submerge .5 to 1 lb. boneless chicken breast in this. Cook on low 8 - 10 hrs. Remove chicken, shred meat, stir back in. Good with tortilla chips, crackers or on rice.
csziggy
(34,119 posts)Pork butt roast, boneless or bone in, whatever size fits in crockpot
your choice of rub
liquid smoke (optional)
1 yellow onion, chopped
bottle of beer, your choice
Rub roast with the seasonings; put everything into the crockpot. Cook on low or high until the roast falls apart when you try to pick it up with a fork. Remove roast from crock pot. Let pork cool for a bit, shred with two forks. Spoon a little of the liquid over meat to keep moist. Reserve the rest of the liquid - it's great for making rice with.
Serve on a bun with BBQ sauce; add vegetables and cheese and make quesadillas or burritos (I like to cook zucchini and yellow squash and those work well with the pulled pork in a quesadilla); eat however you like pork!
Lunabell
(5,919 posts)You just layer all your ingredients using UNCOOKED noodles, put it on low for 4 hours and then you have a delicious easy lasagna. But make sure you add lots of sauce, because the noodles soak it up and make it dry f you don't.
applegrove
(118,008 posts)bottom of the slow cooker. Add 1 cup water and two tablespoons
of of soya sauce. Stir. Slather the roast with butter and lots of garlic salt. Put on top of onions. Slow cook by weight or internal temperature. Take the roast out. Add a little flour to make gravy.
Vinca
(50,168 posts)I used an inexpensive "Chef's prime" pork roast and put a couple of sliced cloves of garlic in slits in the roast before browning it. I added 2 whole cloves and a bay leaf to the water/soy sauce and only used 1 onion. I cooked it in the slow cooker on low for about 8 hours and it came out perfectly. (I've previously cooked it on high for 5 hours, but found the meat tended to shred rather than slice.) I made the gravy separately before serving using a roux and the juices from the crockpot and a little chicken stock. Great recipe.
applegrove
(118,008 posts)garlic salt because my boss at a teahouse in the Rockies always made it with garlic salt and I like the crust it makes. But otherwise we are virtually the same. Yummy.
Cairycat
(1,697 posts)with a little salsa (maybe 1/4 or 1/2 cup?) in the crock pot. One night we had it in burritos, and another night we had it in chicken tortilla soup (with tomatoes, beans, chicken broth, corn, jalapeno, onion, garlic, and strips of corn tortilla that I baked in the oven until crunchy). Two meals plus leftovers for three of us.
Little Star
(17,055 posts)Slow Cooker Beef Stew: For an easy-to-prepare meal, use McCormick® Beef Stew Seasoning with beef cubes and vegetables in your slow cooker. The beef is deliciously tender and the vegetables are infused with a wonderful beef flavor.
Ingredients
3 cups water
1 package Beef Stew Seasoning Mix
2 pounds beef stew meat cut into 1-inch pieces
1/4 cup flour
2 cups potato chunks
1 1/4 cups carrot chunks
1 medium onion cut into thin wedges
1/2 cup sliced celery
Directions:
Mix vegetables, water and Seasoning Mix in slow cooker.
Coat beef with flour. Stir into ingredients in slow cooker. Cover.
Cook 8 hours on LOW or 5 hours on HIGH until beef is tender.
Prep time: 10 mins
Cook time: 5 hrs
Cooking tip:
For a shorter cook time, more flavor and more tender beef, brown flour-coated beef in 2 tablespoons oil on medium-high heat in large skillet. Drain, if needed. Stir browned beef into remaining ingredients in slow cooker. Cook 4 hours on HIGH.
I always use the cooking tip advice.
dem in texas
(2,672 posts)I use my old crock pot all the time, but mostly for starters for a recipe that I will finish on the stove. It is great for cooking dry beans, can eat as cooked in the crockpot, or use the cooked beans for another dish. Cook pinto beans, eat them, use them to make refried beans. Split peas, navy beans, lentils, cook in the crock pot, then finish off on the stove to make soup.
Cook a cut of meat or chicken in the crockpot, save the broth. Endless possibilities. Cooked pork, great for fried rice, canitas, tamales or posole. Chicken possibilities are endless, chicken salad, chicken noodle soup, chicken tacos, sour cream chicken enchiladas, Pennsylvania Dutch chicken pot pie (I made this today). Beef can made into hot or cold sandwiches, vegetable soup, hash, Mexican meat salad, tacos, it goes on and on. About the only dish I like cooked in the crockpot, start to finish is smothered pork chops. I tried the Mississippi pot roast and it was way to salty for me.