[ADVICE] your best slow cooked creations for the whole family?

[Rowellen]

From a thread in the slow cooker recipe section:

moroccan lamb shanks!

brown shanks in frying pan, add to slow cooker.

slice 2 medium-large onions, brown in frying pan with a little olive oil. Add a tin of chopped tomatoes and a tablespoon of moroccan seasoning (available in multiple brands in the supermarket spice aisle!), add half a can of water, bring to boil, pour over lamb shanks.

leave cooking all day long. Add a can of chick peas and a bunch of baby spinach about half an hour before serving. You can leave the spinach until right before serving if you don't want it quite so wilted. Serve with rice.

Too easy, amazingly tasty! And shanks are cheap =)

I do this one all the time and my kids LOVE it. At least my DD does & my DS used to until he decided he didn't like rice lol! DH & I are big fans too. It reheats well. I usually pull the bones out before adding the chickpeas.

[Olive]

Corn, potato and chorizo chowder

[Novella]

Ive done a moroccan lamb shank meal before with chickpeas it was yum. Served with Ainsley harriets packet flavoured cous cous and DD1 loved it!

The mild chicken curry slow cooker packet mix is nice too, I use coconut evap milk not coconut milk so less fat but it does seperate a bit, tastes great just looks odd. I add pumpkin, cauliflower and zucchini to it.

I also do an oven chicken casserole, which you could adapt to the slow cooker just use a little less liquid

Brown Floured diced Chicken Thighs (about 600g) Brown bacon (about 200g) add 1 diced onion 2-3 diced leeks and about 2 cups diced muhroom, I glass white wine, garlic, 1-2 cups chicken stock (enough to cover) and then put in casserole dish in the oven. Delish with mashed potatoes and green beans or if you are having it that night crinkling some filo over the top about 20 minutes before you pull it out the oven for some crispness.

I use a similar method to make a mild curry with rogan josh paste, 1kg diced beef (cheap cuts), 1-2 onions, 1 zucchini, capsicum, 2 potatoes 800g diced tomatoes. Brown meat and paste then add all the veg and about 1/2 cup water, cook on stove top about 10 min then in casserole dish in oven. Not a traditional curry but nice all the same.

[Deedles]

Oh Yummy. These all look great!

Olive, the Corn, potato and chorizo chowder sounds delish!

N2L, oh my gosh that sounds Divine. Do you heat soup up first then add meat to slowcooker?

Novella, using curry paste sounds like a good way to make a dish extra yum too!

[Artechim]

Black beer casserole

Beef
Veges - onion/carrot/celery/whatever
Black beer (Cascade is best)
Pepper, salt, beef stock.
Packet of vegetable soup mix
Packet of brown onion gravy.
Cornflour to thicken

Sometimes I double the beer, soup and gravy to make a bigger lot.
Can add in Kumera or potatoes to bulk it up.

[Arimeh]

From a thread in the slow cooker recipe section:


I do this one all the time and my kids LOVE it. At least my DD does & my DS used to until he decided he didn't like rice lol! DH & I are big fans too. It reheats well. I usually pull the bones out before adding the chickpeas.

That one was my favourite!! Until we stopped eating lamb.

Um, I made a beef and sweet potato one the other night that was yummy and a coconut flavoured pork one. That was really yummy and the meat was such a big lot that it lasted us for a couple of days!

[Rowellen]

What's wrong with lamb, MNB?