Slow cooker recipes

[blunomore]

I have a slow cooker that is seldom used and I 'd like to experiment a little bit.

I was thinking of cooking chicken, but changed my mind (we eat way too much chicken!) and decided to make a dish with sausage and vegetables.

How would I go about creating a sauce for the dish to go into the slow cooker? Pretty much the same as with a stew, i.e. add a can of tomato&onions, or add a packet of sauce ........ ?

How / what sauce do you normally devise for your slow cooker dishes?

Thanks

 

[kim_bcs]

I have a slow cooker that is seldom used and I 'd like to experiment a little bit.

I was thinking of cooking chicken, but changed my mind (we eat way too much chicken!) and decided to make a dish with sausage and vegetables.

How would I go about creating a sauce for the dish to go into the slow cooker? Pretty much the same as with a stew, i.e. add a can of tomato&onions, or add a packet of sauce ........ ?

How / what sauce do you normally devise for your slow cooker dishes?

Thanks

I like to make lamb shanks in the slow cooker. I tend to throw some stock and red wine in to make a sauce, along with some onions and garlic. It comes out so tender. Serve with mash and veg and you have yourself an amazing meal.

 

[ABCpt]

We normally do pork or beef in the slow cooker and add one of the Royco cook in sauces. Start it in the morning before work and when we get home it is a lovely stew.

 

[bwana]

Chili and potroast - my two favourite slow cooker dishes.

 

[Ockie]

I would be so scared that there is a power failure during the day for like 4 hours ... and then when you get home you have like half cooked rotten meat! Or am I being paranoid?

 

[blunomore]

I would be so scared that there is a power failure during the day for like 4 hours ... and then when you get home you have like half cooked rotten meat! Or am I being paranoid?

It does not rot that quickly! It would just not be properly cooked.

 

[ABCpt]

I would be so scared that there is a power failure during the day for like 4 hours ... and then when you get home you have like half cooked rotten meat! Or am I being paranoid?

It might be half cooked, but doubt if it would be rotten. Just put the slow cooker on high for a while and it should still be fine.

 

[HammerDown]

Ours also sat for ages unused, and we actually started using it again this winter.
At this very moment I can smell a curry stew slowly getting up to speed. Veggies, lots of potatoes, curry all the way from Duhbin on brown rice. Looking forward to lunctime .

 

[Ockie]

It does not rot that quickly! It would just not be properly cooked.

It might be half cooked, but doubt if it would be rotten. Just put the slow cooker on high for a while and it should still be fine.

mmmm .... not sure if I would trust a pot roast that has been sitting half cooked for god knows how long in summer in a confined space surrounded by liquid. But if the power comes back on before you get home...perhaps you wont know...and what you dont know cant kill you

 

[bwana]

mmmm .... not sure if I would trust a pot roast that has been sitting half cooked for god knows how long in summer in a confined space surrounded by liquid. But if the power comes back on before you get home...perhaps you wont know...and what you dont know cant kill you

Don't you have a meat thermometer?

 

[Ockie]

Don't you have a meat thermometer?

mmmmm

/googles to make sure what bwana is talking about and I dont put him off his food tonight

Oh .. a actual meat thermometer. No I dont lol. I dont cook....but I have been following this thread and for someone like me that dont know how to cook....this might be a option.

Question though. Does this thing not use a crap load of electricity seeing that you leave it on the entire day?????

 

[Ockie]

Hello??? I realize this is a thread about slow cooking...does that mean the responses have to be just as slow? jeeez!

 

[ponder]

Or am I being paranoid?

Paranoid.

 

[Pooky]

Can't you just put a pot on the stove and turn the heat down low?

 

[HavocXphere]

Inaparman tikka chicken works well.

Gonna try something with oats today to give the slow cook meal a bit more substance.

 

[bwana]

Question though. Does this thing not use a crap load of electricity seeing that you leave it on the entire day?????

Mine says 250w on the base but obviously it's not constantly drawing that much - not that 250w is a drop in the bucket compared to what the oven draws.