Slow Cooker recipes

would love a beef strogenoff ( spelling ??) recipe. I have stewing beef in the freezer. would this be ok for it ? dont want to serve another stew again this week.

Have only discovered this site and am SO pleased. Bought a massive slow cooker in Argos recently for me the husband and 4 kids and have been searching for recipes online but so many are American and I can't be bothered with the conversions (or the weird ingredients!). So PLEASE keep the ideas coming

made a never to be repeated mistake . made a chicken dish in the SL with chicken legs but obviously left it in too long as the bones literally disintegrated.. we spent the whole meal picking out peices of bone.. not good

Great thread!! I am a huge fan of slow cookers, and it's one of the first things I bought when I moved to in Ireland. Lots of people use them in NZ - cheap cuts of meat are very popular because groceries are quite expensive.

Here is one of my favourite recipes from a popular NZ slow cooker recipe book. The BBQ Beef one is brilliant for burgers and very popular with kiddies! Great Friday night food.

BBQ Slow Cooker Tender Beef
About 750g - 1kg beef blade or flank steak (basically any type of cheap cut stewing beef). Brown in a pan first. Leave as one piece and add on high with 1/2 cup hot water for one hour. (To be honest I just skip the hot water simmering bit and chuck all the ingredients in from the start). Then add 130g tomato paste, 1/2 cup tomato sauce, 2tbsp balsamic vinegar, 2 tbsp worcestershire sauce, 2tsp soy sauce, 1 tsp dry mustard, 1 tsp salt and turn heat down to low. Cook for 5-6 hours (or longer as desired). About then you can shredd the meat with two forks.

Serve on burger buns with salad and relish etc - or however you feel is appropriate!! Freezes brilliantly too. In my big old slow cooker I used to make a double batch and freeze in portions.

Here's a question; can you make stock in a slow cooker? I'd love to make my own stock out of chicken carcasses but I'm a devil for putting it on to simmer and promptly forgetting about it so that it boils dry. I got to thinking about my slow cooker, that essentially simmers things. Has anyone tried making stock in a slow cooker? How did you get on? Any tips?

Luckily my slow cooker has a timer. It's when I try to make it in a saucepan that I wander off for 6 hours and come back to a charred mess.

I got 1 last year and they are brilliant, they are great for stews,soups and casseroles and I have even cooked a roast beef and a gammon joint in it (the one I purchased can be set over gas so if I want to brown the meat first its perfect). They are so easy to use just put everything in set it and off you go for the day. Make sure if you buy one to research online for recipes as there is some class ones on it

About as much as a lightbulb.

Some info about them.

not so much a recipe as an idea, but in an effort to use less processed foods and get more veg and vitamins into us we've been making our own tomato sauce for pasta and chilli by throwing a bunch of veg into the slow cooker with some herbs and stock cubes and a little water and it comes out amazing.

we threw in tomatoes, courgettes, aubergines, onions, mushrooms, carrots, spinach and i'm sure some other stuff (i think it was 11 different veg iirc) and added some herbs and spices and a couple of beef stock cubes and then left it on low for a day, then let it cool and bagged it up in ziplock bags and stuck it in the freezer and it just takes 10 minutes to heat them through to defrost them as they are a flat shape with a lot of surface area.

brown off some mince and add whatever else you fancy and combine with the sauce and you have yourself a very quick chilli or bolognese and you know exactly what went into it.

i've never actually tried it like that, but it might be worth a shot.

you'll probably have to put it in towards the end of the cooking and check it every so often to make sure it doesn't go too soggy though.

i've always been a big fan of just trying random stuff, so i'm interested to see how well it goes.

I have a slow cooker too and thought it would change my life but nothing that I have cooked in it has been that successful!!! Any tips or foolproof recipes would be very much appreciated!!

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not so much a recipe as an idea, but in an effort to use less processed foods and get more veg and vitamins into us we've been making our own tomato sauce for pasta and chilli by throwing a bunch of veg into the slow cooker with some herbs and stock cubes and a little water and it comes out amazing.

we threw in tomatoes, courgettes, aubergines, onions, mushrooms, carrots, spinach and i'm sure some other stuff (i think it was 11 different veg iirc) and added some herbs and spices and a couple of beef stock cubes and then left it on low for a day, then let it cool and bagged it up in ziplock bags and stuck it in the freezer and it just takes 10 minutes to heat them through to defrost them as they are a flat shape with a lot of surface area.

brown off some mince and add whatever else you fancy and combine with the sauce and you have yourself a very quick chilli or bolognese and you know exactly what went into it.

I would add the meat to the slow cooking process as it is the long slow cooking of the meat that gives the intense flavour. The veg by themselves are great however. try using natural stocks however not cubes with additives.