Slooooooow Cooker Recipes
Discussion
Don said:
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Here's a different use for the Slow Cooker: Slow Roasting.
Try poppling a half-shoulder of lamb into the slow cooker, dust with garlic salt and pour in half a mug of water. Slow cook for ten to twelve hours. Now pre-heat the proper oven to absolutely b
d hot. Hot as it will go. Use tongs/roast-forks/forks to lift the shoulder out of the slow cooker and onto a roasting dish. Bung in the super-hot oven for ten minutes whilst you steam veg or whatever. Make gravy with the liquid in the bottom of the slow cooker.
Serve.
The outside of the lamb will be a thin crust of well-browned deliciousness. The inside will be melt-in-the-mouth soft. The gravy should need nothing else to be savoury lamby loveliness.
I like boiled new potatoes and steamed carrots and broccoli with it.
It's particularly good of a Sunday as you can do the final hot-roasting any time from nine hours on and deliver dinner in twenty minutes. So you can go out in the day whilst the slow-cooker takes care of business and then have a full roast dinner in the same time it takes to make beans on toast...(almost).
This sounds awesome.Here's a different use for the Slow Cooker: Slow Roasting.
Try poppling a half-shoulder of lamb into the slow cooker, dust with garlic salt and pour in half a mug of water. Slow cook for ten to twelve hours. Now pre-heat the proper oven to absolutely b
d hot. Hot as it will go. Use tongs/roast-forks/forks to lift the shoulder out of the slow cooker and onto a roasting dish. Bung in the super-hot oven for ten minutes whilst you steam veg or whatever. Make gravy with the liquid in the bottom of the slow cooker.Serve.
The outside of the lamb will be a thin crust of well-browned deliciousness. The inside will be melt-in-the-mouth soft. The gravy should need nothing else to be savoury lamby loveliness.
I like boiled new potatoes and steamed carrots and broccoli with it.
It's particularly good of a Sunday as you can do the final hot-roasting any time from nine hours on and deliver dinner in twenty minutes. So you can go out in the day whilst the slow-cooker takes care of business and then have a full roast dinner in the same time it takes to make beans on toast...(almost).
Edited by JFReturns on Monday 11th October 09:33
Mobile Chicane said:
It sounds counter-intuitive, but the slow cooker works just as well with little (or no) liquid in it.
This is the primary way I use it. 
I'm not one for "wet" food, casseroles and the like, but slow "roasting" produces such great results I am a convert.
The main reason I got a slow cooker, versus just using the oven, was the energy efficiency aspect. Running a full oven for twelve to sixteen hours is unnecessarily expensive.
Cotty said:
Is it that time of year again, when I get enthusiastic about the slow cooker? Dig it out, dust it off and cook the bin dinner, then put it away again.
Is that because you are going to cook the same old recipe you don't like? 
Try something new and maybe the bin won't get its share!
Pulled ham/gammon hock
take 1 gammon ham joint or ham hock
place in slow cooker
pour in carton of apple juice
slow cook for 5-8 hours
shred meat
brush with a mixture made from soft brown sugar and "American Style" mustard
place on a baking tray and bake for 10 mins
Serve with jacket spud and salad.
take 1 gammon ham joint or ham hock
place in slow cooker
pour in carton of apple juice
slow cook for 5-8 hours
shred meat
brush with a mixture made from soft brown sugar and "American Style" mustard
place on a baking tray and bake for 10 mins
Serve with jacket spud and salad.
digimeistter said:
Pulled ham/gammon hock
take 1 gammon ham joint or ham hock
place in slow cooker
pour in carton of apple juice
slow cook for 5-8 hours
shred meat
brush with a mixture made from soft brown sugar and "American Style" mustard
place on a baking tray and bake for 10 mins
Serve with jacket spud and salad.
That sounds lovely....what size carton of apple juice do you use? 1 litre?take 1 gammon ham joint or ham hock
place in slow cooker
pour in carton of apple juice
slow cook for 5-8 hours
shred meat
brush with a mixture made from soft brown sugar and "American Style" mustard
place on a baking tray and bake for 10 mins
Serve with jacket spud and salad.
Great timing, I bought one recenty too 
So far I've only used it twice, once for a bolognaise that I put too many herbs in and then last night for some pork shoulder and veg in a bit of a sauce, that worked really well.
I'm looking to do something a bit more interesting than a common stew so will be watching this with interest, I've been looking for an excuse to buy pigs cheeks from Morrisons too so I think this could be the moment.
So far I've only used it twice, once for a bolognaise that I put too many herbs in and then last night for some pork shoulder and veg in a bit of a sauce, that worked really well.
I'm looking to do something a bit more interesting than a common stew so will be watching this with interest, I've been looking for an excuse to buy pigs cheeks from Morrisons too so I think this could be the moment.
bluelightbabe said:
digimeistter said:
Pulled ham/gammon hock
take 1 gammon ham joint or ham hock
place in slow cooker
pour in carton of apple juice
slow cook for 5-8 hours
shred meat
brush with a mixture made from soft brown sugar and "American Style" mustard
place on a baking tray and bake for 10 mins
Serve with jacket spud and salad.
That sounds lovely....what size carton of apple juice do you use? 1 litre?take 1 gammon ham joint or ham hock
place in slow cooker
pour in carton of apple juice
slow cook for 5-8 hours
shred meat
brush with a mixture made from soft brown sugar and "American Style" mustard
place on a baking tray and bake for 10 mins
Serve with jacket spud and salad.
Just ensure the liquid is about halfway up the joint and turn halfway through, it's discarded at the end anyway.
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