Slow cooker recipes - 22 recipes
Slow cooker recipes are great for lazy or beginner cooks, or if you prefer to entertain your guests while your dish cooks itself in the kitchen! Slow cooked meals require little preparation, can be prepared in advance, do not require monitoring and can rarely go wrong! Try slow cooking for stews, curries, pot roasts, soups and even some desserts!
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Rice Pudding
By cilladrennan
Homemade rice pudding made in a slow cooker
- 40g Butter (unsalted)
- 150g Pudding Rice
- 150g Sugar
- 1 1/2 litre Milk
- 3 tsp Vanilla Essence
- Optional: Pinch of Nutmeg
- Raisins
- Sultanas
Slow Cooker Pork and Beans
By Dee
A delicious casserole served with slices of cheese across the top & slices of fresh crusty bread
- 500g Diced Pork
- 1 lLarge Onion - chopped
- 1 Green Pepper - diced
- 1 Red Pepper - diced
- Mushrooms - cleaned
- Tin Chopped Tomatos
- Tin Red Kidney Beans - drained & thoroughly rinsed
- Tomato Purée
- Worcestershire Sauce
- 2 large Bay Leaves
- Oregano
- Mixed Herbs
- Chilli Powder - fresh chilli can be used if preferred
- Garlic - optional
- Pinch Rosemary
- Pinch Thyme
- Paprika
- To Serve
- Red Leicester or Cheddar Cheese
- Crusty Bread
- NB Add the herbs to your own tastes & if you want leave out, replace or add herbs, that's fine to. Make this casserole your own & enjoy
French Onion Soup
By Xana
Place slow cooker liners inside a 5- to 6 1/2 -qt slow cooker bowl
- Soup:
- 3 large onions, sliced (3 cups)
- 3 tablespoons margarine or butter, melted
- 3 tablespoons all-purpose flour
- 1 tablespoon Worcestershire sauce
- 1 teaspoon sugar
- 1/4 teaspoon pepper
- 4 cans (14 1/2 ounces each) ready-to-serve beef broth
- Cheesy Broiled French Bread:
- 8 slices French bread, 1 inch thick
- 3/4 cup shredded mozzarella cheese (3 ounces)
- 2 tablespoons grated or shredded Parmesan cheese
Slow Cooker Sundays: Garam Masala Chicken Curry
By Badgertails, Badgertails ~ Homemaker
This fabulous curry is so simple to make but magnificently tasty! Please bear in mind the recipe is to be made in a...
- 2 tbsp chilli & garlic oil
- 1 red onion
- 1 red pepper
- 3 skinless chicken breasts
- 1 medium potato, peeled
- 2 handfuls cup mushrooms
- 1 medium dried red chilli
- 1 tin chopped tomatoes
- 2 tbsp creme fraiche
- 2 tbsp red wine
- 2 tsp grated fresh ginger
- 2 tsp chopped fresh coriander
- 2 tsp mild curry powder
- 2 kaffir lime leaves
- 2 tbsp garam masala powder
- 1 tbsp ground turmeric
- 1 tbsp cornflour
- salt and pepper, to taste
Slow Cooker Chicken & Mushrooms In Wine Sauce
By Dee
A slow cooked chicken dish that will melt in the mouth
- 3 cups Sliced Mushrooms
- 1 large Onion, chopped
- Garlic (optional). If using - to own taste
- 21/2 - 3 pounds Chicken pieces - skinned
- 3/4 cup Chicken Broth
- Tomato Purée
- 1/4 cup Dry Red Wine
- 2 tbsp quick cooking Tapioca
- 11/2 tsp Dried Basil
- 2 tsp sugar
- 1/4 tsp Salt
- 1/4 tsp Pepper
Family Favourite Lancashire Hotpot
By Vick11, Foodie
This hotpot recipe is very easy and tasty
- 750g/1½lb lean beef cubes
- 2 tablespoon cooking oil
- 50g/2oz plain flour (with salt and pepper)
- 2 onions (sliced)
- 500g/1lb potatoes (peeled and sliced)
- 2 celery stalk (sliced)
- 1 carrot (cubed)
- 100g/4oz swede (cubed)
- 30ml dry sherry
- ½ teaspoon mustard
- 1pich of ground nutmeg
- 3 bay leaves
- ½ teaspoon rosemary (chopped)
- 1 teaspoon thyme (chopped)
- 350mls beef stock
- 15g/½oz butter + 1 clove chopped garlic
staffordshire Lobby
By emmavn79
A hearty winter warmer, easy to prepare & perfect for using up leftovers
- 300-600g stewing beef
- 2-3 sticks celery
- 1 onion
- 1 clove garlic
- variety of vegatables - potatoes,parsnips, swede,carrots
- 300ml beef stock
- splash of worcestershire sauce
- salt & pepper to season
Chicken Kasha (Slow cooked chicken in spicy yoghurt curry )
By Joydeep Pal, Joydeep's World of Food
A very popular Bengali Main dish, Chicken Kasha, is cooked almost everywhere
- 1 kg Chicken (washed and medium pcs)
- 100 gm Yoghurt or curd
- 2 pc Tomato (big)
- 3 or 4 Green Chillies
- 2 tablespoons of Ginger Garlic Paste
- 6-8 tablespoons of Oil : Mustard (preferred)/Sunflower oil
- Medium Size Onion: 2 nos
- Spices:
- Cummin Whole(Jeera): 1/4 teaspoon
- Cinnamon (Darchini): 1/4 of a stick
- Cardamom (Elaichi): 3 small one
- Clove (Labongo/laung): 3
- Bay leaves (Tejpata) : 3
- Black peppercorns (Golmorich) : 10
- Garam Masala: ½ teaspoon
- Cumin powder (Jeera): 1 table-spoon
- Turmeric powder (Halud/Haldi): 1 tea-spoon
- Sugar: 1 tea-spoon
- Water
- Salt to Taste
Slow Cooked Smoky Pulled Pork with Chipotle Mayo
By WillieG
Preheat oven to 140°C
- 3 tablespoons hot smoked paprika
- 2 tablespoons demerara sugar
- 4 garlic cloves (peeled and crushed)
- 4 thyme sprigs (leaves finely chopped - keep stems)
- Olive oil
- 2-3kg pork butt (front middle shoulder) - bone in, rind removed
- 4 onions (peeled and quartered)
- Salt and pepper
- White baps
- Chipotle Mayo:
- 300g quality mayo
- 1-2 tablespoons chipotle paste (use 2 teaspoons smoked paprika if unavailable)
- 1 teaspoon runny honey
- 1 tablespoon wholegrain mustard
Slow Cooker Quorn Sausage Casserole
By Harriet
A warming, comforting dish, suitable for lazy Saturdays and times when you need an easy to prepare, simple, yet yum...
- 1 Onion (Finely Sliced)
- 4-6 Quorn Sausages
- 2-3 Cans Whole Plum Tomatoes
- 1 Tin Baked Beans
- 1/2 Swede (Cubed)
- 2 Carrots (Diced)
- 1-2 Sticks of Celery (Sliced)
- 1 Medium Potato (Cubed)
- 1/2 Pepper (Diced)
- 1 Small Courgette/Marrow/Squash (Chopped)
- 1/2 Aubergine (Diced)
- 3 Large Mushrooms (Sliced)
- 1 Clove Garlic (Crushed)
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Slow Cooker Turkey Casserole
- 2 turkey legs, skin removed
- 1/2 swede, peeled and chopped
- 1/2 butternut squash, peeled and chopped
- 1 sweet potato, peeled and chopped
- 4 carrots, peeled and chopped
- 1 onion, sliced
- 500ml (17 fl oz) chicken stock
- 2 cloves garlic
- 1/2 teaspoonful marjoram
- Cornflour to thicken
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Brown Stew
- 1 1/2 lbs diced beef
- 1 1/2 oz Margarine
- 1 heaped tablespoon Flour
- 1 lb button mushrooms
- 1 large sliced onion
- 3 large sliced carrots
- 1 swede diced
- 1 large parsnip diced
- small skin on potatoes (about a pound)
- 1 large leek diced
- 2 pints beef stock (from cube or bullion)
- Glass red wine
- Salt and pepper
- Oregano
- Mild chilli powder - to own taste
- Mixed Herbs
- For the Dumplings::
- Suet (beef or vegetable)
- Plain Flour
- Water
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Vegetable Curry
- 6 tbsp Vegetable Oil
- 4 large Chopped Onions
- 2 crushed clove garlic
- 5 tsp Curry Powder
- 500g Lentils
- 2 litres of Vegetable Stock
- 2 tsp Lemon Juice (optional)
- 4 diced Carrots
- 2 Diced Apples
- 125g Sultanas
- Salt & Pepper to taste
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Onion gravy with sausages & mash
- 15g butter
- 1 tbsp. sunflower oil
- 4 red onions, halved and finely sliced
- 200ml white wine
- 2 sprigs of fresh thyme
- 350ml chicken stock, made with 1 chicken stock cube
- 2 level tsp. corn flour
- Sausages, mashed potato and green beans, to serve
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Slow cooked lamb with beans and...
- - 500g of white kidney beans
- - 1 kg lamb collar
- - 2 onions
- - 6 fresh tomatoes
- - 4 cloves of garlic, salt, pepper, parsley
- - Bouquet garni (thyme and bay leaf)
- - water
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Rabbit and cabbage casserole
- I rabbit skined gutted and cut into pieces, 1 savoy cabbage shredded, 1 red onion, 2 medium carrots, 1 small leek, 1.5 pints of chicken stock, 1teaspoon corriander, cumin and 1 anistee star
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Slow Cooker Beans
- 1 pound dried pinto beans
- 3 Jalapenos, Cut
- 3 cloves garlic, chopped
- 5 cups water
- 2 Tomatoes
- Spices:
- Chili Powder
- 1 teaspoon ground cumin, or to taste
- Black Pepper
- Seasoning Salt
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Slow cooker minestrone
- 100g/3½oz smoked, dry-cured lardons
- 2 carrots, roughly chopped
- 2 sticks celery, sliced
- 1 onion, roughly chopped
- 2 garlic cloves, crushed
- 2 sprigs fresh rosemary, needles finely chopped
- 1 tsp dried thyme
- 1 tbsp tomato purée
- 400g/14oz can chopped plum tomatoes
- 1.2 litres/2 pints good-quality chicken stock
- 400g/14oz can cannellini beans in water, rinsed and drained
- 50g/1¾oz spaghetti, snapped into short lengths
- 100g/3½ head baby leaf or spring greens, thickly shredded
- Salt and freshly ground black pepper
- 2 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
- 25g/1oz parmesan, grated
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Beef Curry
- 12oz Chuck Steak
- 6oz Long Grain Rice
- For the Curry Sauce:
- 1oz Butter or Margarine
- 1 Onion, chopped
- 1/2 Cooking Apple, peeled & diced
- 2 level tbsp Curry Powder - more if you like it hotter
- 1 level tbsp Flour
- 1/2 pint Stock OR Water with Stock Cube
- 1 dessertspoon Chutney, any large pieces chopped
- 1 tbsp Soft Brown Sugar
- Juice of 1/2 Lemon
- 1oz Sultanas
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Slow Cook Shredded Beef
- 1kg beef roasting joint
- 2 crushed garlic cloves
- 2 tbsp tomato puree
- 2 tbsp Bovril
- 1 tbspn Maille wholegrain mustard
- 2 tbsp brown sugar
- A dash of black pepper
- 1 Knorr Beef Stock Pot
- 2 tbsp hot water
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Lamb curry with apple
- 1.5 kg lamb shoulder,
- 3 onions,
- 1 clove garlic,
- 3 tablespoons of oil
- 2 tablespoon of curry powder
- 1/2 litre of chicken stock
- 3 apples,
- 1 pot of yoghurt.
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Slow Cooked Beef Brisket
- 1kg beef brisket - unrolled
- 150ml Worcestershire sauce
- 4 onions, peeled and halved
- 4 sticks of celery, halved
- 4 sprigs of rosemary
- 4 bay leaves
- salt and pepper
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