Slow Cooker Crock Pot

Further enhancing the quality of slow cooker cooking means considering health factors in cooking. Like being choosy about the kind of ingredients used in slow cooking. Using a lot more veggies and green leafy ingredients is the main thing in healthy and light slow cooker recipes.

It would be a good idea to always put more color in cuisines for light slow cooker recipes. Try to adjust or convert recipes by adding in more colorful vegetables in the dishes. Stuff like green leaves, green broccoli, red and green bell peppers, yellow squash, green or red apples, yellow potatoes, and violet eggplants not only make appealing dishes but nutritious ones as well.

Light slow cooker recipes also mean doing away as much as possible with too much starch, oil, fats, and salty seasoning in food. The question now is, will food still taste well without these stuff? The answer is, it’s not only possible; there are a lot of light slow cooker recipes to choose from. Take this chicken recipe for instance.

Slow Cooked Madras Chicken

Prepare 3 chopped onions, 4 pieces of garlic, 4 peeled and chopped apples, salt to taste, 2 spoons of curry powder, a small jar of mango chutney, 3 cups of hot and cooked couscous, and 3 pounds of skinless and boneless chicken thighs. Light slow cooker recipes with chicken ought to always have the skin taken off.

Put all the ingredients in a slow cooker. Cook on low heat for some 7 to 9 hours, or until chicken is tender enough and cooked well. Mix well and serve on couscous. Like many light slow cooker recipes, this dish takes only 15 minutes to prepare and carries a mere 600 calories and 20 grams of fat.

Vegetarian Slow Cooker Chili

Now, how about an all-vegetarian yet flavorsome meal that tastes as if there’s’ meat in it? Prepare 12 ounce of protein crumbles (frozen), 2 chopped onions, a cans of undrained diced tomatoes, 15 ounce of tomato sauce, some chili powder, some ground cumin, some cornstarch, 2 cans of red kidney beans, and a fourth cup of water.

Put everything in a slow cooker except the cornstarch. Cook on low heat for 8 hours until veggies are cooked enough. Then add cornstarch in water as the heat is switched to high, to 15 minutes more. This recipe has 322 calories, 7 grams of fat, and lots of Vitamin A.

Light slow cooker recipes ought to be healthy and easy to prepare and cook.

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