Slow cooker recipes?

[Brampton_Boy]

Can anyone recommend some good and easy slow cooker recipes for the culinary impaired?

I picked up a 10L Crock Pot on sale for $40, and I figured I may as well learn how to cook something other than chicken breast and sweet potatoes.

Any suggestions would be much appreciated

 

[SammyPops]

I do not approve of slow cookers.

I am sorry.

 

[osudude]

Pack of chicken breasts, 2 packs of taco seasoning, and just enough water to cover the chicken. Cook over low for 8-10 hours. Remove from water and shred. Put in tortilla with a little cheese and you've got some good chicken tacos.

Pack of chicken breasts, one pack of cream cheese, one small pack of italian seasoning. Mix up in cooker. Cook over low for 8-10 and serve over cooked rotini or even instant white rice. Delicious.

 

[Diablo Ryu**]

I do not approve of slow cookers.

I am sorry.

Wtf

 

[SammyPops]

Wtf

Everything ends up mushy and tastes like socks.

I stand by my statement.

 

[Noob]

Barbacoa

4 chipotle peppers (from a can) plus all the adobo sauce it sits in
1 bunch cilantro, chopped
1 red onion, peeled and cut into large chunks
1 head garlic, peeled and cloves smashed
5 dry bay leaves
2 teaspoons ground cloves
1 tablespoon kosher salt
Juice of 4 limes
1/2 cup cider vinegar
5 to 7 pounds chuck roast
4 to 6 cups beef or chicken stock

cook the roast overnight for like 12 hours

saute it in a frying pan for a minute or two when yore ready to eat

it seriously tastes just like Chiptole's barbacoa

 

[fingercuffs]

Not a one pot wonder, as in I do sprouts and roast potatoes separately but I LOVE this recipe.

Carbonades Flamandes (Flemish Beef and Beer Stew)
Info

Serves: 4

Prep time: Less then 30 minutes

Cooking time: Over 2 hours

Ingredients

1kg / 2.5lb shin of beef, trimmed of any sinew, cubed
2 tbsp plain flour, seasoned with salt and freshly ground black pepper
75g / 2.5oz butter
2 tbsp oil
500g / 1.5lb onions, roughly chopped
1 sprig fresh thyme, leaves only
3 bay leaves
2 x 33cl / 11.5fl oz bottles dark brown beer
250ml / 9fl oz beef stock
2 heaped tbsp redcurrant jelly
1 tbsp cider vinegar
Cooking Method

Preheat the oven to 180C/350F/Gas 4.
Dredge the beef in seasoned flour.
Heat the butter and oil in a large ovenproof pan with a lid over a medium heat. Add the beef and brown on all sides (you may need to do this in batches). Remove the beef and set aside.
In the same pan, cook the onions until browned, then return the beef to the pan.
Add the herbs, beer and stock to the pan, scraping up the browned bits from the bottom. Add the redcurrant jelly and vinegar and stir well.
Put the lid on the pan and place in the oven to cook for two hours, or until the meat is tender and glutinous.
Serve with roasted root vegetables or chips, in true Belgian style.

My attempt at it, I use McChouffe beer:

 

[WhiskeyPunch]

Look up the chicken and dumplings recipe on Google. It is amazing. You use biscuit dough for the dumplings, easy!

 

[WARserra]

Not a one pot wonder, as in I do sprouts and roast potatoes separately but I LOVE this recipe.

Carbonades Flamandes (Flemish Beef and Beer Stew)
Info

Serves: 4

Prep time: Less then 30 minutes

Cooking time: Over 2 hours

Ingredients

1kg / 2.5lb shin of beef, trimmed of any sinew, cubed
2 tbsp plain flour, seasoned with salt and freshly ground black pepper
75g / 2.5oz butter
2 tbsp oil
500g / 1.5lb onions, roughly chopped
1 sprig fresh thyme, leaves only
3 bay leaves
2 x 33cl / 11.5fl oz bottles dark brown beer
250ml / 9fl oz beef stock
2 heaped tbsp redcurrant jelly
1 tbsp cider vinegar
Cooking Method

Preheat the oven to 180C/350F/Gas 4.
Dredge the beef in seasoned flour.
Heat the butter and oil in a large ovenproof pan with a lid over a medium heat. Add the beef and brown on all sides (you may need to do this in batches). Remove the beef and set aside.
In the same pan, cook the onions until browned, then return the beef to the pan.
Add the herbs, beer and stock to the pan, scraping up the browned bits from the bottom. Add the redcurrant jelly and vinegar and stir well.
Put the lid on the pan and place in the oven to cook for two hours, or until the meat is tender and glutinous.
Serve with roasted root vegetables or chips, in true Belgian style.

My attempt at it, I use McChouffe beer:

I've gotta try this.

 

[Shawn91111]

all recipes has a slow cooker section

 

[bubkusjones]

Everything ends up mushy and tastes like socks.

I stand by my statement.

If you can't work a slow-cooker, that's your issue, not the slow cooker.

Chili, baked beans, pulled pork, stew, roasts...the possibilities are endless, as are the variations on the themes. Hell, my uncle got a slow-cooker recipie book with his, and it's got something like a dozen different varieties of beans, another dozen chili recepies, soups, stews. It's amazing.

 

[Long Dark Blues]

1 pork shoulder or loin
32 ounces of sauerkraut
2 or 3 large potatoes
1 bottle of dark lager
Fresh cracked black pepper to taste

Put the sauerkraut in the crockpot.
Peel and cut the potatoes into large pieces, put them on top of the sauerkraut.
Put the pork on top of the potatoes.
Add the beer.
Cook on low for 8 hours.

I usually steam some broccoli to have with the above right before I sit down to eat.

 

[FlowWithTheGo23]

http://www.williams-sonoma.com/recipe/thomas-kellers-slow-cooker-cassoulet.html

Never made it, but this guy is one of the best chefs in the country.

 

[bubkusjones]

1 pork shoulder or loin
32 ounces of sauerkraut
2 or 3 large potatoes
1 bottle of dark lager
Fresh cracked black pepper to taste

Put the sauerkraut in the crockpot.
Peel and cut the potatoes into large pieces, put them on top of the sauerkraut.
Put the pork on top of the potatoes.
Add the beer.
Cook on low for 8 hours.

I usually steam some broccoli to have with the above right before I sit down to eat.

Oh, that sounds good.

 

[Chuck Bass**]

Just use slow cookers as a permanent food heater

 

[Rob Battisti]

Best Pulled Pork

Pork Loin(sp?)
1 cup of Gingerale
1 cubed onion

Let that cook for about 6 hours

Take the pork out and shred it with forks. By this time it should shred easily.

Put back into crock pot with sweet baby rays BBQ for another 2 hours.

ENJOY.

 

[Heisenberg]

I have been making this posole quite a bit lately. You can cook the pork with it as long as you cook it all day. Recipe says to cook separate. When it is done, top with diced onions, cilantro, and eat with tortillas or crackers.

http://allrecipes.com/recipe/slow-cooker-posole/

 

[MASShole]

Just made pork green chili and also pulled pork over the weekend. I made a beef stew last night as well.

Cooking in easy mode!

 

[rorydaboss]

Pack of chicken breasts, 2 packs of taco seasoning, and just enough water to cover the chicken. Cook over low for 8-10 hours. Remove from water and shred. Put in tortilla with a little cheese and you've got some good chicken tacos.

I do something similar but I like this way better (it is far more flavorful). I use about 5 pounds of trimmed boneless skinless chicken breast. Then I put in two packets of taco seasoning (or 1/2 cup of the taco seasoning spice I bought at sam's club...basically enough to do two pounds of meat). Then instead of water I dump in a large can of diced tomatoes (I think it is 28 or 32 ounces) and then put in enough salsa to cover the chicken (maybe 1/2-1 cup). You can cook it on low for 8 hours or so or on high for about 5 hours. Shred the chicken and then put it right back in with the liquid you cooked it in. Then I like to add mexican rice (my wife works at a mexican restaurant so she brings it home but you can make your own by adding salsa, cumin, paprika, maybe hot sauce, etc. to rice) You can also add beans if you like. I usually eat on this for 5 days and then freeze it in individual portions on the 5th day so I have super easy dinners that I just microwave when I am feeling lazy. It is delicious.

 

[Higus]

my girl made Jamaican oxtail stew in it last month that was awesome (neither of us are Jamaican). I'll update if I find the recipe.