Slow cooking: approved recipes?

[Knubje]

Hi All,

The Mrs forced me to buy a slow cooker this weekend. She made grand promises of using it lots and cooking me some good stuffs.

I have been asked to inquire into some tried and tested recipes from the good folks of OcUK.

All I need is a quick how to and a list of ingredients for a particular meal. I have found many ideas online but want ones that have been OCUK approved and that come highly recommended!

TL;DR - Spec me some approved slow cooking ideas

Thanks!

 

[Knubje]

couple of jugs of beef stock, beef cubes, which ever veg u like and seasoning.

let it cook for 6+ hours. every hour or so add some flour to help thicken the gravy.

what ever you do it seems to always turn out nice.

get some nice bread to mop up juice too.

Sounds good and more along the advice I was looking for.

The only problem I can see with the above is adding to flour to it. I thought the idea of slow cooking was to start it, go to work and then come home for it all to be ready.

I mostly won't be able to add flour hourly

 

[Knubje]

beef, skirt, brisket or his fave is braised steak,fried onions, then add carrot, celery, bay leaf , peppercorns and half can guiness, big handful basil, 2 spoons horseradish or wasabi, salt and peppar, oxo cube, half tube tomato puree, 5-6 hours, whang herby dumplings in half hour to go . Dont use whole can guiness, too sour! any mash, he likes it when I put out colcannon, mash tatties with fine cabbage bashed in it with spring onions. Granules to thicken.
mrs herby, he's glued to Ryder Cup.

never any left, ever.

This is what I have done in my 3.5l cooker a few times, gives 4 large servings.

This is exactly the sort of thing I'm looking for. Excellent effort Kroot's & Mrs H, cheers!

Getting some good ideas now and I'm going shopping later so will do my best to grab all the ingredients. A guy from work is lending me a book tomorrow so I'll try some of those and post them here when I'm done.

 

[Knubje]

Are slow cookers economical on electricity?.

Surely having something like that running all day must use more power than oven cooking something for an hour or so.

I was looking at this earlier too, it's very economical it seems:

http://michaelbluejay.com/electricity/cooking.html

About the same as leaving a light on all day. (Crockpot = Slow cooker)

 

[Knubje]

Ok so, after having the slow cooker a while now and cooking a few dishes I must say I quite enjoy it!

Two recipies I've used that were nice:

Beef + Ale Stew (from Jamie Oliver)

* 3 fresh or dried bay leaves
* 500g diced stewing beef
* 500ml ale, Guinness or stout
* 2 sticks of celery
* 2 medium onions
* 2 carrots
* Olive oil
* 1 heaped tbsp plain flour
* 1 x 400g tin of chopped tomatoes
* Sea salt and freshly ground black pepper

Whack it all in slow cooker, leave for 8hours job done. Perhaps add a few gravy granules near the end to thicken to taste. Remove Bay Leaves when done. I served with some creamy mash potato.

I would say that for me it was TOO much onion and not enough carrot though. I'd use 1 onion and a 3rd carrot. Tasted good.


Lamb Shank Goodness

* 4 Lamb Shanks
* 2 Parsnips
* 2 LARGE Carrots
* 2 sticks of celery
* 1 onion (diced quite fine)
* 1/4-1/2 punnet of mushrooms
* 1 tsp woochesteresrhire sauce
* 1 Pint of Beef stock
* Salt and Pepper to taste
* 400g chopped tomatoes
* 3 Bay Leaves

Cut veg to liking, dice the mushroom and onion. Whack it all in. Leave for 8hrs. Gravy granules to thicken. Remove bones.

I made this dish with a mix of sweet + normal mashed potato. I also sortee'd some for a crispy effect It was a very awesome meal. Probably tastier than the beef above!

I would say that the slow cooking game is getting used to what you like and adding it in. You can't go too far wrong!