Slow Cooker Crock Pot

Barbecuing meat isn’t just confined to cooking outdoors anymore. These days, you can barbecue indoors as well – just not with an open fire or hearth, that is. You can use your oven or you can use your slow cooker (crock pot) as well. Here’s a delectable, fall-off-the-bone barbecue short ribs in slow cooker recipe without the muss and fuss of open flame or continued basting.

The ingredients for this barbecue short ribs in slow cooker that can serve 6-8 persons:

4 lbs. beef short ribs
12 ounces or 1 ½ cup of your favorite barbecue sauce*
Water (measurement depends on how high the meat fits in your crock pot)

*If you want to make barbecue sauce from scratch, here’s a do-it-yourself mixture that’s ketchup-based. This batch is more than you’ll need to cover the short ribs in slow cooker so the excess can be used as a dipping sauce for when the ribs are done.

2 cups (just about 16 ounces) ketchup
2 tbs. teriyaki sauce (if not available, use soy sauce)
Dash of hot sauce
Salt and pepper, to taste
2 tbs. vinegar (if possible, red wine)
1 tbs. sugar

You can opt to brown the ribs in a pan of hot oil first, if you want to. But in the spirit of the no-muss, no-fuss principle with slow cooking, we’re just going to go ahead and dump the short ribs in slow cooker right off the bat.

Then, pour the barbecue sauce on top of the meat. If you’re using a bottled barbecue sauce, dump it all over the short ribs in slow cooker and add just enough water so that there’s enough liquid in there for it to simmer. There’s no need to cover the meat with water though, just add enough till it’s halfway to a quarter-full.

If you’re making the do-it-yourself sauce, mix all the ingredients together in a bowl first. Then, pour it all over the meat but leave at least a quarter of a cup for dipping later. You shouldn’t need to add water because this sauce is not so thick once you’ve mixed it well. Afterwards, put the lid on and cook the short ribs in slow cooker for 8-10 hours on a low setting.

This recipe of barbecue short ribs in slow cooker is so yummy and the meat will literally fall off the bone — it’s that tender. What’s great about cooking short ribs in slow cooker this way is that you can use any kind of bottled sauce you want as long as you add a bit of water so that it will simmer and stew in the crock pot.

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Making ham in a slow cooker requires very little culinary knowledge or experience on your part. The fact that there are scores of ways you can serve the dish goes to show how easy people find it to cook. You too, will find that out once you give these recipes a try.

Cheese Soufflé Casserole with Ham

One of the best –and most delicious- ways you can learn how to serve ham in a slow cooker is by making this simple casserole. All you need are eggs (4 of them), cheese (8 ounces, any type will do), bread (8 slices, without crust and preferably cut into quarters), a cup of ham (chopped), a cup of milk, salt (1/4 teaspoon), fresh parsley (a tablespoon), and some paprika.

The first step is to add some grease to the crock pot. Now put in the bread and cheese, and then set in the ham in the slow cooker (add as many layers as you like). Now after beating the eggs, add some of the parsley, milk and salt into it. Take this mixture and sprinkle over the cheese and slice bread. Spray as much paprika as needed.

To cook, set the crock pot to high for half an hour, then set to low and cook for 3 more hours. Remove the ham in the slow cooker (as well as the cheese and bread), and, you’re now ready to serve.

Glazed Ham with Mustard

To create this recipe, cooked ham is required (5 lbs), a dozen cloves of onion, a tablespoon of mustard, half a cup of sugar (brown), orange juice (2 tablespoons), lemon juice (also 2 tablespoons), and a couple of tablespoons of cornstarch.

Before you put the ham in the slow cooker, slice it into a diamond like shape, and fill with the cloves of onion. Now add the brown sugar, lemon juice and spread over the ham. Turn the crock pot on to high for about an hour. After 60 minutes, reduce the setting to low and let it cook for 10 hours.

Finally, take away the ham in the slow cooker and place it on a pan (don’t let it get cold). Reset the crock pot to high, and add the orange juice and also the cornstarch. Stir it for another 15 minutes or until it gets thick. Glaze this syrup over the ham.

That’s basically all there is to cooking ham in a slow cooker. Yes, there are different ways to prepare them, but with these two recipes under your belt, the others will be even easier to create.

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One of the many reasons why people have a slow cooker in their homes is to have a one-pot meal ready and waiting for you and your family after a long day. Of course, slow cooking is also a great way of infusing flavor and making meats fork-tender. And what better meat to slow-cook than beef or particularly, beef chuck! So, here’s an idiot-proof pot roast recipe in slow cooker that you can add to your slow-cooking repertoire.

A beef chuck roast cut is a perfect candidate for slow cooking because it is tough piece of meat. And for this pot roast recipe in slow cooker, you’re going to need around two kilos or four pounds of meat.

Now, it isn’t a pot roast without some veggies thrown in and the idiot-proof parts of this recipe is… frozen vegetables! That means no peeling, no rinsing and all that other stuff.

This pot roast recipe in slow cooker calls for a small bag of frozen baby carrots, frozen onions and a can of button mushrooms (if you want more veggies in there). Also, you’re going to need half a pound of new potatoes too. Just dump them all on the bottom of the cooker.

The ingredients for the sauce in this pot roast recipe in slow cooker include a 10 ¾ oz. cream of mushroom can, a couple of tablespoons of Worcestershire sauce, and ¾ of a cup of beef broth (low-sodium, preferably). Combine and mix these sauce ingredients well and set it aside.

Rinse the meat in running water, pat it dry with tissue and season it with salt and pepper. Heat vegetable oil (around two tablespoons or more) in a wide skillet and when that’s good and hot, brown the meat on all four sides. We’re browning it to seal in the juices so that it’ll still be moist and juicy when it’s done.

After that, place the seared roast in the slow cooker by resting it on the vegetables. Then take the sauce mixture and pour it all over the meat and put the lid on. Now, what’s great about any pot roast recipe in slow cooker is that you can either put in low so that it would be ready in eight to nine hours or you can set it to high so that it will be done in as little as three to four hours.

You can make an easy pot roast or a complicated one but with this idiot-proof pot roast recipe in slow cooker, you can not go wrong. All you need is a roast cut of beef chuck, a couple bags of frozen vegetables, new potatoes and a cream of mushroom sauce mixture to round things up. And whether you need it done in as little as three hours or as long as eight, just set up your slow cooker to high or low and just walk away and come back with a one-pot meal that’s ready to eat.

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We know of people who eat specific chicken parts only. Some only eat chicken wings and some only eat chicken breasts. Most children prefer to eat chicken legs and there are adults who only prefer to eat chicken thighs. The focus of our discussion is crock pot recipes that are ideal for chicken thighs.

One of the interesting crock pot recipes for chicken thigh is the Crock Pot “Cock ‘N Bull” Stew. The ingredients that we need include ¼ cup of steak sauce, two chicken bouillon cubes, a teaspoon of salt, ½ teaspoon of pepper, a teaspoon of sugar, ½ cup of hot water, two to three pounds of chicken thighs, a pound of lean stewing beef that is cut into cubes that measure about 1 ½ inches, a medium onion that is chopped, two medium peeled and cubed potatoes, two medium pared and thinly sliced carrots, a 16-ounce can of stewed tomatoes, and ¼ can of flour.

The preparation for this chicken thigh crock pot recipe starts by combining the hot water, sugar, pepper, salt, bouillon cubes, and steak sauce in the crock pot. All the other ingredients that were not mentioned should be also be added in the crock pot aside from the flour. Make sure to mix the ingredients carefully and make sure to mix them well. And then let it cook for about ten hours on low temperature. It can also be cooked on high temperature for only four hours. Before this dish is served, make sure to debone the chicken thigh first, then put back the chicken thigh meat in the crock pot, and stir well. In making the gravy, a smooth paste of flour and ¼ cup of juice from the stew should be made. Such mixture should be stewed into the crock pot. On high setting, let it cook until it thickens.

An easy-to-prepare chicken thigh recipe is what we are about to teach next. This crock pot recipe for chicken thigh is called the Chicken and Noodles in Crock Pot. It only has a few ingredients which include cooked noodles, ¼ cup of flour, 1 cup of sour cream, 1 can of cream of mushroom soup, ¼ cup of white wine, and a package of boneless chicken thighs.

The preparation for this chicken thigh crock pot recipe starts by placing the chicken in the crock pot. In a bowl, mix the soup and wine well before pouring it over the boneless chicken thighs. Cooking time is about seven to nine hours if crock pot is on low or three to four hours if crock pot is on high. The flour and sour cream should be mixed and stirred into the gravy and chicken. Cook for another thirty minutes on low setting. This is ideally served with hot cooked noodles.

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You can use different kinds of beans when cooking in your slow cooker, but red beans will truly provide each meal with a distinctive zest. If you’re still unsure, make the following dishes and the difference will be apparent.

Bacon Strips with Red Beans

For this dish, you should have 4 lbs of stripped bacon, 2 lbs of red beans, chopped onions (1/4 cup), half a cup of bell peppers and celery, and a cup of vegetable cooking oil.

The red beans should be washed and rinsed overnight, placed in the fridge and dried before being used. Begin by baking the beans in an oven, making sure to use some water. After letting it simmer for 80 minutes, put it in the slow cooker, along with the onions, peppers, bell pepper and celery. Set this to high (90 minutes). Prepare some rice and sprinkle the mixture over it.

Red Beans with Mustard

It is necessary to have 3 cups of water, bacon (5 pieces, diced), 2 cups of red beans, a pound of salt pork, tomato juice (2 cups), 1/3 cup of ketchup, sorghum molasses (1/2 cup), and brown sugar (1/3 cup).

This slow cooker recipe also needs dry mustard (1 and a half cups), salt (1 and a half teaspoons), black pepper (1/3 tablespoon), and a teaspoon of chili pepper.

Set the red beans in the stockpot, and put the sliced bacons on top of them. Pour in the cups of water you had prepared. Let this simmer for about one hour, and then remove the liquid.

Put the beans inside the slow cooker and set it aside. Get a frying pan, and cook the bacon and / or salt pork. When it has turned brown, add them to the crock pot, and toss in the other ingredients as well (the molasses, ketchup, onion, mustard, pepper, salt, chili, etc.). Stir this for a couple of minutes and close the lid.

Set the slow cooker to high. After 6 hours, scoop the mixture and put in a large bowl. Sprinkle more chili powder to give it more spice. Some prefer to spray a little more mustard before serving it up, but hat is only optional.

This is good for 4 to 6 servings.

It doesn’t take a lot to give ordinary meals a different twist; in this case, you can sprinkle some red beans and your typical, run of the mill slow cooker servings becomes something you can relish.

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If you are trying to maintain a healthy diet, there’s no need to skip all of the meat that is served on the table. All you have to do is carefully choose what you eat. For instance, chicken meat is an excellent source of protein for energy, but you might want to leave the skin so as to cut back in calories and fat. Not only do you decrease your caloric intake with the simple sacrifice of leaving the skin, but you also keep your heart healthier since you cut down on the fat.

But are you stuck with traditional crock pot recipes that you have a hard time trying to cook? Been looking for an easy chicken crock pot recipe that will be both healthy and delicious?

Well, you might have just found yourself a solution! Try this easy chicken crock pot recipe that uses 3 chicken pieces and a few more ingredients that you conveniently place in your crock pot, let it cook for a few more hours, then sit down and relax while you wait for the best yet easy chicken crock pot recipe you could ever imagine!

This easy chicken crock pot recipe has been tried by many, so you are sure that it definitely works. You can try experimenting a little with the spices, depending only on your taste buds! Remember, with a crock pot, cooking is fun and enjoyable, not grueling and demanding!

Ingredients:
3 pounds chicken pieces
1 can condensed cream of chicken soup
1 can condensed cream of mushroom soup
1 can (about 4 ounces) mushroom pieces, drained
1 bell pepper, sliced
1 onion, sliced
garlic powder
dash of salt and pepper
1/2 c. white wine

Preparation:
Wash chicken pieces thoroughly, then dry each one. Place together in a crock pot. Combine the rest of the ingredients and pour slowly over the chicken. Cook on low for 6-7 hours or on high for 3-4 hours.

This easy crock pot chicken recipe will surely bring delight to your homes, to your families and friends as well! The ingredients can be easily found in your kitchen or the groceries and the preparation is extremely easy! Nothing can go wrong! This hearty dish can also be served with your choice of either rice or pasta to make it a complete meal.

So for all the busy health buffs out there, step away from the microwave and don’t put your instant dinners just yet. Invite a few friends over, and cook this scrumptious but easy crock pot chicken recipe!

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An enjoyable and fun past-time hobby, cooking is an effective way of releasing the tensions expressed by people. Like art, cooking is seen by some people as therapeutic because it allows them to divert their minds from the things that stress them to those that will help them attain contentment and a sense of self-fulfilment. It is not limited to females since today many famous and excellent cooks are males. Many people also earn a big amount of money from this hobby.

Slow cooking is an area in cooking practiced and mastered by some outstanding cooks. There are recipes that are specifically created and are best suited for slow cooking. Slow cookers are the most important kitchen appliance or equipment that cooks can use when following these recipes.

Another term that is commonly used by people when referring to slow cookers is crock pot. Technically speaking, the term refers to a particular trademark of slow cookers. The popularization of slow cookers launched under the trademark led most people to use the term in a broader sense. It also causes them to label recipes suited for slow cooking as crock pot recipes.

The best crock pot recipes are easy to find. Several experts in slow cooking write books about the best crock pot recipes. Some cooks post Web logs or create feature articles in Web sites that list the best crock pot recipes that they have followed. The television industry, through the presence of cook shows, also serves as a medium for exploring the best crock pot recipes.

Crock Pot Apricot Chicken, Crock Pot Beef Stroganoff, Crock Pot Lasagna and Crock Pot Chicken Supreme are considered by many outstanding cooks as the best crock pot recipes. Wild Rice Stuffed Turkey Breast and Easy Crock Pot Sauerbraten put new twist to crock pot meals. Three Bean Cassoulet and Crock Pot Cabbage are suited for those who look for meatless crock pot recipes.

Mastering the best crock pot recipes give advantages to those who want to establish a career in cooking. Slow cooking is popular in hotels and other facilities that serve fine meals to high-profile people. Showing an excellence in this field is a sign that a person is knowledgeable about the different aspects of cooking. Being able to cook the best crock pot recipes is definitely an assurance that a particular person is committed and dedicated in exploring ways that would strengthen and enhance their skills in cooking.

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If you have a small slow cooker because you’re cooking for one to three people, here’s an easy spaghetti sauce recipe that makes around a quart of sauce that’s generously good for, at least, a pound of pasta. It will take about 15 minutes to prepare this dish and 6-8 hours to cook in a slow cooker that is set on “low”.

Spaghetti sauce ingredients:

1/2 pound of ground pork (you can use ground beef, if you like)
1 teaspoon minced garlic (approximately two medium garlic cloves)
1 small onion, chopped
1 small red or green bell pepper, diced
1 16-ounce can of spaghetti sauce (also comes in a jar)
1/2 teaspoon of Italian seasoning
Pinch of dried basil or oregano
1/2 teaspoon of salt
1/4 teaspoon of pepper

Take a skillet, heat a bit of vegetable oil and stir fry the onion, red bell pepper and garlic. Add the meat to the sauté and continue stir-frying it until the ground meat has browned (this will take around 10-15 minutes). We are browning the meat first because this process generally adds more flavor to any slow cooker recipe.

When the ground meat has changed color, turn the heat off and drain out the oil. You can do this by spooning the sautéed ingredients on to a plate with a paper towel or in a wired strainer, or you can just use a slotted spoon to let the oil drip off prior to dropping them inside the slow cooker pot.

Add the rest of the ingredients — spaghetti sauce, dry spices — in the slow cooker as well. Give them all a little stir to mix them well. Cook the sauce on “low” for 6-8 hours and also, give it a taste after that and add more seasonings if you wish. What’s more, cook the pasta (as directed on its container) separately when you’re about 10 minutes from finishing the spaghetti sauce.

This dish is very hearty and it goes well with garlic bread and a side of salad, either, with Caesar’s salad (that is salty) or one with poppy seed dressing (that is sweet). You cannot get much simpler ingredients to this easy spaghetti sauce that’s why it’s bound to be a staple in one’s home. Cooking it in a slow cooker definitely gives it a cooking-all-day taste and better yet, if you still have some left over, it easily stores in the fridge for days or even the freezer for a couple of months as well.

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A slow cooker is a kitchen home appliance that is ideal for cooking stews and other types of dishes that include water. When using a slow cooker, the dish must be cooked only at a low temperature. This home appliance is commonly used for dishes that need little preparation. It also brings convenience to cooks as it can be turned on and left unattended.

Aside from stew, a lot of cooks also make use of a slow cooker to prepare a dish called Slow Cooker Chili. In this regard, we would like to provide a step-by-step instruction on how to cook Slow Cooker Chili.

There are only a few ingredients needed to prepare Slow Cooker Chili. These are one chopped onion, one pound ground beef, five cans of kidney beans, ¼ teaspoon of chili powder, one can of whole peeled tomatoes, and two chopped green bell peppers.

To start off, the ground beef must be sautéed in a skillet over medium high heat for approximately five to ten minutes. However, continue sautéing until the color of the ground beef turns to brown.

The sautéed ground beef must then be transferred to a slow cooker, along with the onion, tomatoes, beans and green bell peppers. Make sure to add the liquid included in the cans of kidney beans and tomatoes. Do not forget to season such dish with chili powder in order to taste. This is now ready to be cooked for four hours on high setting. If the dish is not yet cooked after four hours, set the slow cooker again and make sure that the vegetables become tender.

Preparation time will take approximately fifteen minutes, whereas cooking time will approximately take four hours. This dish is expected to reach seven servings.

With regard to the nutrition that Slow Cooker Chili brings per serving, it offers 28.1 grams of protein, 55.3 grams of total carbohydrates, 1,235 milligrams of sodium, 55 milligrams of cholesterol, 18.5 grams of total fat, and 493 calories.

There are some cooks who opt to modify the way a Slow Cooker Chili is originally done. Some only add three cans of beans, and aside from a can of whole peeled tomatoes, they also make use of a can of tomato paste. There are also some cooks who add more chili powder than the usual ¼ teaspoon. Those who are really into spicy foods even add hot peppers, hot sauce, and salt.

There are also some cooks who do not want a lot of beans in their Slow Cooker Chili, so it actually depends on the cook and on those who would eat the dish as to how much beans they would want to put in it.

However one wants the Slow Cooker Chili to be done, we guarantee you that this dish is very easy to prepare.

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