Slow Cooker Crock Pot

In almost any slow cooker recipe, potatoes are important. Even in recipes that don’t require them, potatoes can do a lot of wonders. People can try adding them, because potatoes in slow cooker recipes add more quality, weigh, and substance, literally.

Potatoes have that neutralizing flavor that makes it compatible with any recipe ingredient. The same goes even for its more delightful counterpart, the sweet potato. Potatoes go so well with beef, pork, chicken, fish, and other vegetables and even fruits. Fruit salads and almost any kind of salad have them. It’s a very versatile high-carbohydrate ingredient everybody accepts. Thus, it’s very safe to add potatoes in slow cooker recipes that don’t have them.

One of the best things about potatoes is that they can never get overcooked. Even in mashed potatoes when they get so soft, they still carry lots of nutrients, especially carbohydrates. Even in high heat they never lose their flavor. In fact the more they’re cooked the better they taste. So with either high or low heat, potatoes in slow cooker recipes are not negatively affected.

Potatoes can balance recipes with too much meaty flavors in them. For instance, combined beef and pork recipes taste better when mixed with enough potatoes. Few other vegetables can do the same. Many of them easily absorb meat flavors too much that the whole recipe begins to taste monotonous, without any tingle of a contrast. Potatoes in slow cooker recipes neutralize dominant food flavors and lend them a subtle balance.

Slow cooker recipes with lots of creams or mayonnaise taste better when mixed in with mashed, or diced, or quartered potatoes. Even thickly sauced recipes of beef, chicken, pork, or fish can be blended with quartered or chipped potatoes. It’s either fresh potatoes in slow cooker recipes or pre-fried ones.

Finally, potatoes not only add flavor, nutrients, and design to dishes. They also add substance—to accommodate more numbers of servings. Dishes become more stuffy and plenty when proportionately added with potatoes. It’s a trick that always works with unexpected guests coming over for dinner time. And potatoes are not difficult to prepare or cook. Potatoes in slow cooker recipes need no special treatment. They easily blend in with whatever cooking procedure is needed.

Next time dinners need to be extra stuffed and balanced, try potatoes in slow cooker recipes, especially those with beef, pork, chicken, or fish. They are sure to fill up every need.

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Cooking for two with a slow cooker that usually comes in 6-quart sizes or larger is not very convenient. Unfortunately, most slow cooker dinner recipes that are available consider these large volumes that can serve eight or more people. But what if you’ve got a 2-quart or a 3-quart cooker because you’re only cooking for two or three people? What’s a good recipe proportion for your smaller cooker? Well, here’s a slow cooker dinner for two, beef stew recipe that’s perfect for these smaller-sized cookers.

For this beef stew slow cooker dinner, the ingredients include:

1 lb. of beef stew meat (preferably, from beef chuck because it stews beautifully)
2 potatoes cut into bite-size cubes
1 carrot that’s cut the same size as the potatoes
1 large garlic clove that’s chopped (or two small cloves)
1 onion that’s peeled and quartered
1 bay leaf
2 tbsp. of vegetable oil
Flour
A dash of powdered oregano
A dash of powdered rosemary
Salt and pepper
Water

First off in preparing this slow cooker dinner is to dredge the meat in flour and fry it in hot vegetable oil until brown but not cooked all the way through. We’re doing this to get a thicker sauce and to add color to the stew. When the meat is browned, transfer it to the slow cooker and take as much oil out as you can — drain the meat in an iron sift, if you must.

Pile in the vegetables (diced potatoes and carrot, chopped garlic clove, quartered onion, bay leaf, and spices) with the browned meat. Add just enough water to cover the ingredients but do not go more than ¾-full in the pot. Cover and set it at “low” and cook for 7-8 hours.

When you are into the last half hour of finishing this slow cooker dinner, you’re going to set it to “high”. When it begins to boil, mix two tablespoons of flour in ½ cup of water and stir this blend into the stew. Since there’s almost no evaporation when you’re cooking with a crock pot, this will help thicken the stew more in addition to the initial dredge that you did when the beef was browned.

If it has thickened to your preference, then this beef stew slow cooker dinner for two is done. You’ll find that the meat and vegetables are tender and the soup is hearty. It’s perfect with crusty bread and it’s just the right portion for two people to share.

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One of the pleasures of cooking crock pot pheasant recipes is that you can use a variety of materials and more often than not, the results will be satisfactory. One of the most popular components nowadays is the cream of mushroom, as you’ll see below.

Pheasant with White Wine and Bacon

The vital ingredients for this crock pot pheasant recipe are salt (1 tablespoon), 1/3 tablespoon of ground black pepper, cream of mushroom, 1/3 tablespoon of cinnamon, a cup of beef broth, half a cup of ketchup, half a pound of bacon, a tablespoon of dry white wine, 2 pieces of pheasant, 2 small pieces of green onions and a couple of small garlic cloves.

This crock pot pheasant recipe is made by coating the pheasant with the garlic and onions, as well as adding some pepper and salt. Once it is seasoned well, put it in the slow cooker. Pour in the white wine, ketchup, chopped bacon, cinnamon, beef broth, and some of the green onions. Add the cream of mushroom last.

Cook on low for 8 hours. On the next to final hour of cooking, open the crock pot and stir for a couple of minutes, just to make sure everything is set. After it is done, pour everything on a saucepan. Serve this with baked potatoes.

Pheasant with Apples

The ingredients you will need for this very simple crock pot pheasant recipe are a couple of tablespoons of garlic, a small piece of onion, half a cup of sugar, a tablespoon of parsley, 1/4 teaspoon of pepper, a can of tomato juice, a couple of small apples (cored and diced, skin removed), and cream of mushroom.

After the pheasant has been sprayed with the onions, garlic and other spices, insert it in the slow cooker. Pour in the apples, cream of mushroom, sugar, tomato juice, parsley and the other materials. Cover and cook for 4 hours on high.

Once this crock pot pheasant recipe has been cooked, remove the birds and set them on a platter. Pour the sauce and other ingredients onto separate bowls and use them as sauce. This is good for 4 servings.

There are only so many crock pot pheasant recipes you can read about, but until you settle down and start cooking, you won’t learn. Don’t worry about committing a mistake, because everyone does.

The important thing is that you are willing to learn and experiment with materials like cream of mushroom. Soon enough you’ll be coming up with meals you can refer to as your own distinct creation.

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A crock pot is also commonly called a slow cooker. It is a home appliance used in the kitchen for cooking foods on low temperature. The foods cooked in a crock pot are those that require water in the recipe. Since these foods must be cooked in low temperature, cooking time usually takes a long time. It even means that cooking time can last for eight hours or more. The convenience of using a crock pot is the fact that it can safely operate unattended. For instance, if you want to cook beef stew, you can turn your crock pot on in the morning and prepare the dish before going to work or going somewhere else so that when you get back in the afternoon or in the evening, the beef stew is already prepared. Although the term Crock Pot has been the trademark of the slow cooker manufactured by Rival Industries, the term is also being used to refer to any crock pot or any slow cooker in general. Now, let’s talk about a soup recipe that can be prepared using a slow cooker or a crock pot.

This soup recipe is called the Slow Cooker Hearty White Bean Soup. In order to prepare such dish, you need such ingredients as salt and pepper, two to three cans of white beans that are drained. These cans of white beans have to be fifteen ounces each. Other ingredients include one half cup of corn kernels, one cup of frozen baby lima beans which are drained and cooked, two cans of diced tomatoes and juice which have to be 14.5 ounces each, one fourth teaspoon of freshly ground black pepper, one half teaspoon of dried thyme, one medium onion that is diced, one and a half cups of sliced celery, one and a half cups of carrots that are sliced, one quart of vegetable broth, and two smoked ham hocks. In cases when smoked ham hocks are not available, you may use a meaty ham bone for substitute.

In preparing this soup recipe, the crock pot that should be used should measure four to six quarts. To start, the ham bone or the ham hocks should be combined with onion, celery, carrots, and vegetable broths. Cover the crock pot after combining such ingredients and cook on either low or high temperature. If you are going to cook this soup recipe on low temperature, the crock pot should be set for eight hours. If you prefer to cook such soup recipe on high temperature, the crock pot should instead be set for four hours. If and when the food is not yet cooked after eight or four hours, you can set the crock pot for several more minutes or until the vegetables become tender. Afterwards, the broth should be strained carefully into a bowl and the excess fat should be skimmed. The broth that you strained should be returned to the crock pot. Put the ham bone or the ham hocks on a plate and let them cool. Once cooled, you must remove the meat from the bones, dice it, and return it to the crock pot together with the broth. The remaining ingredients should then be added into the crock pot together with salt and pepper. This time, this soup recipe should be on high temperature but should only be cooked for approximately an hour.

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Some of the pork tenderloin slow cooker recipes that you’ll see call for all sorts of ingredients, but when cooked have less than satisfactory results. If you want to be sure about what you’re preparing, give these tried and tested dishes a go in the kitchen.

Sweet Pork with Orange Juice

Those who love pork tenderloin slow cooker recipes that are sweet will relish this one. Prepare 2 pounds of pork, a cup of cold water, a can (10 oz) of orange juice, a jar of sweet barbecue sauce, and a teaspoon of salt and pepper.

Before anything else you need to cook the meat in a skillet. Heat it up with some vegetable oil (or olive oil if you have one). Slice the pork into smaller pieces if you find that more convenient, and spray the onions over it. Cook for 5 minutes on high.

The proceeding step to making this pork tenderloin slow cooker recipe is to put the just cooked meat into the crock pot. Smatter a bit of the pepper and salt. Cook on high for an hour. After 60 minutes, turn it low for 8 hours.

Now remove the roast (if you hadn’t’ sliced it, do it now), and discard the juices. Once they have been chopped into smaller chunks, put them back in the crock pot. Add the orange juice and barbecue sauce. Cook on high for another 2 hours.

You may serve this pork tenderloin slow cooker recipe on sandwiches or fried rice. You can also eat it with other vegetables.

Pork with Corn

What you will need to create this pork tenderloin slow cooker recipe are 4 lbs of pork shoulder (or any other cut), a can of sweet corn, a cup of peas, a tablespoon of Tabasco sauce, 1 and ½ teaspoon of salt and pepper, a tablespoon of soy sauce, and a couple of cups of macaroni.

The procedure is as follows: once the meat has been sautéed and cooked in the frying pan, it should be transferred in the slow cooker. Now throw in the sweet corn, peas, macaroni, soy sauce and the other sauces. Set it to high for an hour, then turn to low and add some salt and pepper. Cook at low settings for another 8 hours.

It is best to eat this pork tenderloin slow cooker recipe with a bowl of newly cooked rice. Serve the sliced chops on each plate, and add a generous helping of the sauce.

All good things come to those who wait, and this adage holds true for fine dining. Take the time to prepare the necessary ingredients, and by following the directions, you’ll come up with meals you’re not apt to forget anytime soon.

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More and more sumptuous pheasant recipes are emerging today and we would like to be of help in augmenting your knowledge about some of the pheasant recipes that can be cooked using the crock pot.

For the first pheasant recipe that we would teach you, you will need onion powder, three tablespoons of balsamic vinegar, a tablespoon of Tabasco sauce, a tablespoon of liquid smoke flavoring, two tablespoons of minced garlic, three tablespoons of dark brown sugar, three tablespoons of Worcestershire sauce, and 1/3 cup of soy sauce for the marinade. The other ingredients you need to prepare are barbecue sauce, half cup of broth or water, ¼ cup of salt, and two pheasants.

First of all, you mush rinse the pheasant. In a bowl with salt, put the pheasant and cover it with water. Allow the pheasant to soak for an hour before rinsing and draining it. The ingredients for the marinade should then be combined in a container. Once they are mixed well, add the pheasant and let it stay in the refrigerator for approximately two hours. In order to keep the pheasant coated, make sure that you stir it occasionally. Then, remove the pheasant from the container and transfer it to a crock pot. Half cup of chicken broth or water should then be added before setting the crock pot on low for a maximum of seven hours. Thirty minutes before cooking time, the pheasant should be coated with barbecue sauce. However, it must be remembered that coating the pheasant with barbecue sauce is optional.

There is another pheasant recipe that we would want to teach you. This one is simply called Crock Pot Pheasant but this is totally different from the pheasant recipe that we previously discussed.

For this pheasant recipe, what we need are half teaspoon of paprika, ¼ teaspoon of crushed sage, six carrots, six stalks of celery, a ten-ounce can of cream of mushroom soup, and two whole pheasants.

To clean the pheasants, they must be rinsed with cold water before patting them dry. Sprinkle the pheasants with pepper and salt to taste. The carrots and celery should be sliced, measuring 1 inch each, before they are placed in the base of the crock pot. The cream of mushroom soup as well as the spices should all be poured into the crock pot. After the soup and all the vegetables are placed in the crock pot, the pheasants may now be placed in the crock pot too. Cooking time should not exceed six hours on high setting. This pheasant recipe is served best with rice.

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The sight, indeed, the smell alone of pork chops can whet the appetite of everyone at the dinner table. If you have no idea on how to use your slow cooker with pork chops, here are a couple of recipes to get you started.

Pork Chop Stew

One slow cooker dish that is certain to be enjoyed by everyone is a pork chop stew. For this treat, these ingredients are needed: flour (4 tablespoons), pork chops (loin, 6 pieces), 2 tablespoons of oil, a medium sized onion (finely chopped), 4 potatoes (medium sized, sliced into cubes); a small cabbage, sliced, and some carrots (at least 4).

Other ingredients are ¼ tablespoon of salt, half a tablespoon of pepper, bullion granules (2 tablespoons), water (1/4 cup), a can of tomatoes (stewed), half a cup of sour cream, and 2 tablespoons of cornstarch.

To make this slow cooker dish, you get rid of the fat, and spray the pork with flour. Next put the chops in a skillet (hot oil, medium heat). Put in some of the carrots, potatoes, and onions into the slow cooker. Now spray some of the flour onto the vegetables. The next step is to put in the salt, pepper, bullion granules, pork chops, cabbage, and the ¼ cup of water. Add the tomatoes last. There is no need to sir.

Set the slow cooker to high and leave it there for about four hours. Next get a small bowl, and mix the cornstarch with the sour cream. Place cooking liquid at a 2 cup measure, and pour in some milk until it is about 1 and ½ cups. Pour this onto the sour cream, and mix until it thickens.

After four hours remove the pork from the slow cooker and serve it with the cream sauce you just made.

Pork Chop with Cream

You will need a large sliced onion, one can of mushroom cream soup, 6 potatoes (small to medium, peeled), 6 pork chops (preferably boneless), and some pepper and salt.

First you prepare the slow cooker by spraying it with some cooking spray or butter. Now put in the potatoes and onions. Add some of the pork chops, some pepper and salt.

Now set the slow cooker to low and let it cook for 8 hours. Serve with the sour cream. With these ingredients, it can serve up to 6 plates.

Slow cooker pork chop recipes aren’t just tasty treats; by making them, you’ll gain the confidence to try out other dishes, and before you know it, you’re already cooking up a storm, impressing your friends and family.

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Crock pot pork tenderloin recipes are noted for their convenience, and even for the most elaborate of meals, preparation and actual cooking can hardly be called strenuous activities. See for yourself, by trying these recipes.

Sweet and Hot Pork

This recipe necessitates the preparation of 3 lbs of pork roast, a cup of water (hot), balsamic vinegar (2 tablespoons), a large onion (sliced), a tablespoon of ketchup, a cup of white sugar, salt (1 teaspoon), black pepper (1 tablespoon), garlic powder (1/4 teaspoon), and a tablespoon of hot pepper sauce.

The direction for cooking this crock pot pork tenderloin is as follows: first you set the onions in a hot skillet and put in the pork. Add a little bit of the balsamic vinegar and cook for about 5 minutes. When it is cooked, let it cool down for a little while.

Open the crock pot and pour in the ketchup, sugar, hot pepper sauce, salt and pepper before putting in the roast. Pour in the cup of water last (allowing the flavors to mix in, without any one overpowering the other too much).

To cook the crock pot pork tenderloin, set the button on high. After 6 hours, open the lid. Set the pork roast on a sauce pan and pour the juices over it. This is ideally served with small baked potatoes and some lettuce.

Red Wine Flavored Pork

These ingredients need to be prepared: a 10 ounce can of tomato soup, 4 garlic cloves (minced), brown sugar (a couple of tablespoons), 2 small chopped onions, half a cup of cold water, 1 tablespoon of cornstarch, 3 teaspoons of soy sauce, and half a cup of red wine.

You should boil the pork in water for at least 10 minutes (preferably 15 minutes). While this is being done, pour the red wine, brown sugar, tomato soup, soy sauce, onions and the others in the slow cooker. Once the pork has been cooked, put it on top of this mixture.

The final ingredients for this crock pot pork tenderloin are the cornstarch and cold water, which are used to thicken the sauce. After adding the two, stir for a couple of minutes. Cook at low for 8 hours.

Serve this crock pot pork tenderloin on a platter. Set the juices on a separate bowl, and pour the juices for each slice that you serve.

These crock pot pork tenderloin meals can be eaten with rice, potatoes, or just as they are. Be bold and creative; add some apples if you want a fruity taste, or maybe pour in some beer if you prefer. The more time you spend cooking, the more juicy concoctions you’ll come up with.

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How about a thick-creamed spicy Swiss steak made easy with a slow cooker? This and other steak slow cooker recipes here are worth a try for a change.

Swiss Creamy Slow Cooker Steak

Steak slow cooker recipes are so easy to prepare and do with round steak pieces, cream of mushroom soup tomatoes, celeries, and other spices. In detail, here is a list of ingredients for a Swiss Creamy slow cooker steak. A large quartered onion, a fourth cup of all-purpose flour, some dried parsley flakes, salt to taste, and some ground black pepper.

For tastier steak slow cooker recipes prepare also a can of cream mushroom soup, a can of diced tomatoes, a cup of chopped celeries, and of course, a pound of round steak chopped in four.

For a smoother procedure with steak slow cooker recipes, spray cooker with cooking spray and then place a level of sliced onions at the bottom of the slow cooker. In a separate bowl mix well the flour, salt, parsley, and pepper. Roll the steak pieces on the flour blend then pound with a meat mallet. Put them over the onions in the pot. Spread celeries on top. On another bowl mix sliced tomatoes and cream of mushroom and the rest of the flour and spread over the whole recipe.

Most steak slow cooker recipes take 7 to 9 hours to cook, like this Swiss Cream slow cooker steak.

Swiss Beef Rolls

Dill pickles and carrot sticks make excellent side dishes for steak slow cooker recipes, like this Swiss beef rolls. To cook this dish prepare 2 pounds round steak some half inch thick each, some carrot sticks (slice thinly 2 whole carrots), a big dill pickle made into 6 sticks, 2 spoons of flour, some salt to taste, and some pepper. Add 2 spoons vegetable oil, a can of tomato sauce, a fourth cup of chopped onions, a fourth teaspoon of garlic powder, and 2 spoons of minced parsley for this steak slow cooker recipe.

Again, as with most Swiss steak slow cooker recipes, pound the steak with a mallet to a thickness of a fourth of an inch. Then cut the meat into 6. Place carrot sticks and a pickle piece on each meat piece. Roll the meat pieces up, secure using skewers or toothpicks. Put salt in flour, plus garlic powder and pepper, and use this to coat beef rolls with. Fry the rolls with oil on a pan till brown and pit inside a slow cooker. Put in tomato sauce and remaining flour, chopped onions and cook on low heat for 9 hours. Place parsley when cooked.

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