Slow cooker sauce - forgot the thickening agent...

[Chicken Chaser]

Hoping that get an answer here, just making a cacciatore style sauce (we are away in the middle of nowhere and just going out walking for the day).

Thrown chopped tin toms, stock, garlic, onion, peppers mushroom and chicken into the pot but forgot to bring a bit of flour with me to thicken. It's going over pasta later which will likely make it too runny.

Would it be best to cook the pasta then add a bit of liquid to the mix to add a bit of starch or semi cook he pasta and finish the pasta in the mix?

[hashtag]

Just cook it and accept it may not be perfect

Adding pasta water will not thicken the sausage. Not enough starch

Adding the part cooked pasta sounds a faf and will not thicken the sauce

[dazwalsh]

Take the lid off and try and reduce it down a bit before adding the pasta.

[Far Cough]

If you have potatoes , mash up a cooked one and add to sauce

[trickywoo]

Slice of bread?

[21TonyK]

probably too late now if you are out but a little flour and water would work or even better cornflour and water at the end.

[Shaw Tarse]

21TonyK said:

probably too late now if you are out but a little flour and water would work or even better cornflour and water at the end.

Read the op
I'd go for lid off & reduce

[Squiggs]

Turn it up high, take the lid off and it will reduce (thicken) It'll probably take 30 - 45 mins.

[sc0tt]

My slow cooker pot can go in the over so pop the lid off and stick it in the oven for an hour to finish.

[zygalski]

Strain and reduce, rather than thicken a watery sauce.

[Squiggs]

What did you do?
What was the outcome?

[Chicken Chaser]

Well it wasn't a classic! Plenty of flavour, but it just struggled to thicken. I reduced it back and finished the pasta off in the mix. There was some reduction but not enough. Fortunately there was garlic focaccia to soak some of it up!

[iphonedyou]

Chicken Chaser said:

Well it wasn't a classic! Plenty of flavour, but it just struggled to thicken. I reduced it back and finished the pasta off in the mix. There was some reduction but not enough. Fortunately there was garlic focaccia to soak some of it up!

As suggested above, flour / cornflour added at the end will thicken it virtually immediately - in case it happens again!

[Murph7355]

iphonedyou said:

As suggested above, flour / cornflour added at the end will thicken it virtually immediately - in case it happens again!

He didn't have any and presumably no access to get some.

Reducing was the only option. And that needs more time.

[sgrimshaw]

Again may not have had any .... but Weetabix will thicken without being obvious.

No, I didn't believe it either until I tried it.

[227bhp]

hashtag said:

Adding pasta water will not thicken the sausage.

Is that a euphemism?

[Melman Giraffe]

sgrimshaw said:

Again may not have had any .... but Weetabix will thicken without being obvious.

No, I didn't believe it either until I tried it.

Or just leave lid off

[Murph7355]

sgrimshaw said:

Again may not have had any .... but Weetabix will thicken without being obvious.

No, I didn't believe it either until I tried it.

I believe anything of weetabix. NASA should have used it on the tiles on the shuttle - coat, run through a dishwasher and no fecker would remove it, not even entry into the Sun's atmosphere let alone ours.

However, I won't be putting one in a sausage casserole any time soon!

[dazwalsh]

Murph7355 said:

I believe anything of weetabix. NASA should have used it on the tiles on the shuttle - coat, run through a dishwasher and no fecker would remove it, not even entry into the Sun's atmosphere let alone ours.

However, I won't be putting one in a sausage casserole any time soon!

I had a bowl that went through 2 dishwasher cycles and still had concreetabix on it, I lost my st and flung it out the kitchen window into the garden. Mrs was not impressed.

There can't be many harder substances known to man.

[Murph7355]

dazwalsh said:

Murph7355 said:

I believe anything of weetabix. NASA should have used it on the tiles on the shuttle - coat, run through a dishwasher and no fecker would remove it, not even entry into the Sun's atmosphere let alone ours.

However, I won't be putting one in a sausage casserole any time soon!

I had a bowl that went through 2 dishwasher cycles and still had concreetabix on it, I lost my st and flung it out the kitchen window into the garden. Mrs was not impressed.

There can't be many harder substances known to man.

Schoolboy error.

The more cycles you put it through, the harder it gets. The trick is never to let the stuff in the dishwasher in the first place. Use disposable bowls.

Scrambled egg is the cushioned equivalent.