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cooking_panda in what_a_crock

Soo excited!

Feb 16, 2010 11:30

I have been lurking in the background of this community for...well, ages actually. I have a 6.5-litre crock-pot (I think. Oh, and I'm from England so please bear with me and my strange measurements / spellings!) and it was pretty impractical for cooking for me so I hardly ever bothered.

I recently treated myself however and bought a new 3.5-litre ( Read more... )

requests & advice, recommendations, intro post

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benbenberi February 16 2010, 15:05:06 UTC

The easiest recipe I make is "chicken-with-sauce":

Chicken pieces (I like thighs, skin removed, but any pieces are ok)
1 jar tomato-based spaghetti sauce

1. Put your chicken pieces in the crockpot. (Optional - brown them in a pan first.)
2. Empty your jar of sauce over the chicken.
3. Cover the crockpot and cook on low all day.
4. Serve with rice, pasta, bread, or whatever. Salad on the side. Glass of wine - yum.

You can doctor this however you like - add herbs, garlic, mushrooms, wine, etc. to taste. Alternatively, pour the herbs, garlic, mushrooms & wine over the chicken without using tomato sauce at all, and it's a completely different, equally tasty dish.

cooking_panda February 16 2010, 15:48:09 UTC

Ooh, that sounds so good I actually want to set my crock pot up here at work!! :) Thanks for the recipe - I shall try it very soon!

crimedoc1 February 17 2010, 03:18:40 UTC

What benbenberi says. You can use pretty much any sauce - a tomato sauce, Indian sauce, salsa, you name it ( ... )

cooking_panda February 17 2010, 14:57:44 UTC

That's brilliant, thanks. Especially thanks for the bit about the meat - I'd have just carried on getting what I normally do! :)

Whole chicken 'roasted' in the slow cooker. englishlady78 February 17 2010, 14:04:20 UTC

This is a favourite of mine. I bung a few carrots, a roughly quatered onion and a few sticks of celery (if I have it) in the bottom of my crock pot then I plop a chicken on top (you'll have to make sure you get one that'll fit!) then I switch it on low and leave it to cook for around 5-6 hours (my pot is quite hot) and when it's served the meat falls off the bones and is amazingly tender. You can stuff half a lemon in side the chicken too for a subtle lemony flavour ( ... )

Re: Whole chicken 'roasted' in the slow cooker. cooking_panda February 17 2010, 14:58:45 UTC

Ooh, fried rice. Mmmm. Thanks also for the recipe - would save me a lot of time trying to do it in the oven and getting confused on timings etc! :)