Slow Cooker Chatter #19

[Olive]

ange mine burns things around the edges as well, not sure why!

[Phteven]

Just got this recipe for Osso Bucco in a promo email - looks yummy in the picture lol
Osso Bucco with Gremolata

Serves 4-6 Prep 10 mins Cook 8 hrs


1kg Osso Bucco
1 onion, diced
1 x 40g sachet McCormick Slow Cookers Beef & Red Wine Casserole
1 carrot, diced
1 x 800g can crushed tomatoes
1 clove of garlic, finely diced
? cup fresh parsley, chopped
1tsp lemon rind, grated

1. Fry Osso Bucco meat and onion in a hot pan to brown and seal.
2. Place into the slow cooker with McCormick Slow Cookers Beef & Red Wine Casserole sachet, carrot and crushed tomatoes and cook on LOW for 8 hours.
3. To prepare the Gremolata, mix together garlic, parsley and lemon rind and sprinkle over Osso Bucco to serve.

Serving Suggestion:
Serve with pasta, creamy polenta or mashed potato and beans.

[alioops]

When you make Spag bolognese do you put the pasta in with it or boil that on the stove? i really want to make SC bolognese but i dont want to have the need to use the stove as well.

My normal bolognese (cooked on the stove) is

As much mince as i have, 1 generous squirt of tomato paste (approximately 200g) 1 tin tomatoes, whole, crushed or diced, sprinkling of onion flakes, sprinkling of garlic, sprinkling of mixed herbs, oregano, basil, and that is about it. so to make it in the SC with the pasta in it how much liquid will I need to add?

[briggsy's girl]

alli - i always par-cook the pasta first as i have found in the past if you add enough water to cook the pasta, you effectively dilute the flavour of the spag bol too much

[christy]

I think its almost time to get lamb shanks going again *drool*

my lamb shanks recipe:

4 lamb shanks
1 can tomatos
1 tbsp tomato paste
1/2 cup red wine
1 carrot diced
1 celery diced
1 potato diced
3 sprigs rosemary
2 cloves garlic

I chuck it all in 8 hours low. No more prep than chopping.... When we are almost ready to eat, I make a polenta mash & put that on the plate with a shank, than I use a potato masher & mash the stuff left in the slow cooker. Often there is a lot of fat, so sometimes I pull the shanks out & put them into a hot oven which is turned off and then mash the rest & cool it. I skim fat off the top until I get tired, warm it all up again & then put the shanks on the polenta mash, and pour the sauce over the top.

[Pandora]

can you cook any stovetop meal in a slowcooker, or are there some things that wont work.
I have arecipe for a beef and barley casserole but I'm not sure I can do it in a slowcooker? Are there any ingredients that just dont work (I'm worried that the mushrooms and celery wont)

thanks

[Rouge]

Definitely, both the celery and mushrooms would be fine. I would put the mushrooms in for the last hour if you are worried.