For the avid cook, slow cooker meals are never boring. Every recipe is a possibility of a new-fangled dish. Although there are many who finds slow cooker meals a mind-numbing stress, still majority who likes to eat healthy and well find excitement in slow cooking. If you want to find out why crock pot recipes are well-liked, perhaps it's time to give it a try and see how wonderful crock pot cooking can make a dish deliciously healthy without much effort.
For an effortless meal, allow me to share slow cooker meals to fill your crock pot or slow cooker in the morning for a fantastic dinner everyone can enjoy.
Let's start with Chicken Cacciatore. This is an Italian dish which means "hunter-style" prepared with onions, tomatoes, bell peppers, mushrooms, herbs, spices and wine.
Ingredients:
- 3 pounds skinless bone-in chicken thighs- 14 ounce tomatoes, diced - 1 medium-sized onions, sliced- 3 cloves garlic- 1 big bell pepper, chopped- 1 cup mushrooms- 6 ounce of canned tomato paste- cup chicken both- cup dry red wine, or your favorite wine- Salt & pepper
Procedure:
When you have all the ingredients ready, just place them in a 3-4 quart slow cooker. Cover and cook on LOW heat for 8 hours. Serve it with pasta or rice alongside, and you can have a gratifying meal.
Isn't that simple?
Next is an appetizing French Dip Sandwich. Imagine the presence of beer in this recipe. The beautiful flavor of beer adds a brilliant zest and aroma to your roast, and no one will be able to detect there's beer in it!
Ingredients:
- 4 pounds rump roast- 1 can (10 oz) beef broth- 1 (10 oz) can condensed French onion soup- 1 can or bottle beer- 6 French rolls- 2 tablespoons butter
Procedure:
Remove excess fat from the rump roast. Put roast in a slow cooker. Add the beef broth, onion soup and beer. Cook on LOW for 7 hours. To prepare the sandwiches, split the French rolls and spread with butter. Slice meat slantwise then bake in the oven at 350 degrees for 10 minutes. Put the meat inside the rolls. Serve with your favorite sauce for dipping.
This is wonderful to fill your weekend afternoons!
Another recipe is a flavorful Slow Cooker Pork Roast & Vegetables. This is actually pork and sirloin roast with vegetables, spices and apple butter seasoning, or depending on what ingredients you're craving for.
Ingredients:
- 3 pounds pork sirloin roast, boneless- 4 sweet potatoes, peeled- 3 tablespoons prepared horseradish- 1 tablespoon cornstarch- 2 acorn squash- cup apple butter- teaspoon ground all-spice- teaspoon pepper- salt- oil
Procedure:
Heat oil in a heavy skillet and add the pork roast, turning from time to time until all sides are uniformly browned. Cut squash into 8 wedges. Cut sweet potatoes with skin into chunks. Put together inside the crock pot and place browned pork roast on top. In a separate bowl, mix together apple butter, cornstarch, horseradish, all spice, salt and pepper, season to taste. Pour mixture into the crock pot. Simmer for about 7-8 hours or until pork and vegetables are tender.
There you go. Three healthy and delicious crock pot recipes that would change the way you look at slow cooker meals. I hope the recipes will help start fill your crock pot or slow cooker with something fantastic to eat that everyone can enjoy at dinnertime. Possibilities abound, give your family and friends the chance of a traditionally-tasting crock pot stew, pot roast sandwiches, beef barbecue, mixed vegetables and lovely desserts.
You will not only do away with the same old meals, but discover new meals without having to worry about the cooking, or burning the pot. You can even enjoy slow cooker and crock pot mixes that are all-natural spice blend and salt-free for hot delicious meals ready for those on salt diet. With a crock pot, you can appreciably reduce time in the kitchen and take pleasure in doing other things.
Not just healthy, but fun and wise. Happy slow-cooking!
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