Slow Cooker Meals with Charts
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Ingredients:
- Slow Cooker:
- The recipes that I have here came from a booklet that Costco's slow cooker came with.
- I've had three of those slow cookers and they are all garbage.
- The last Slow Cooker was a gift from my daughter and I was so careful with it
- but the stoneware insert still broke.
- Now I have "Nesco" smart canner. It also slow cooks.
- 1 Pot Slow Cooker Family Meals:
- Baby Back Ribs:
- 2-4 racks of baby ribs
- cut into 3-4 pieces each
- 2-4 cups barbecue sauce
- 2-3 onions chopped
- Directions:
- Place ribs in Crock-Pot slow cooker. Top with onions and barbecue sauce.
- Cover and cook on LOW for 7-9 hours - or on HIGH 4-5 hours
- or until meat is tender.
- To serve
- cut ribs between bones and coat with extra sauce.
- Serves: 6-10
- BBQ Pulled Pork:
- 2-1/2 to 5 pound pork loin
- trimmed of fat
- 2-4 cups barbecue sauce
- 2-3 onions chopped
- 6-8 hamburger buns or hard rolls
- Directions:
- Place pork loin in Crock-Pot slow cooker. Top with onions and barbecue sauce.
- Cover and cook on LOW for 7-9 hours - or on HIGH 4-5 hours
- or until meat is tender.
- Remove pork Loin from slow cooker and shred with a fork. Add pork into slow cooker and coat with extra sauce.
- Serve BBQ pulled pork on buns.
- Serves: 6-8
- Beef Bourguignon:
- 3 tablespoons flour
- salt and pepper
- 3 pounds beef chuck
- cut-inch cubes
- 3 large carrots
- peeled and sliced
- 1 medium onion
- sliced
- 6 strips cooked bacon
- cut into 1-2 inch pieces
- 1 - 10-ounce can beef broth
- 2 cups red or Burgundy wine
- 1 tablespoon tomato paste
- 2 cloves garlic
- minced
- 1 bay leaf
- 1 pound fresh mushrooms
- sliced
- 2 large potatoes
- cut into 1-inch pieces
- Directions:
- Coat beef in flour seasoned with salt and pepper. Sear beef in a skillet on stovetop.
- Place meat in slow cooker and add remaining ingredients.
- Cover and cook on LOW for 8-10 hours - or on HIGH for 5-7 hours until meat is tender.
- Serves: 6-8
- Lemon Herb Roasted Chicken:
- 4-6 pound roasting chicken
- 1/2 cup onion
- chopped
- 1-2 tablespoons butter
- juice of 1 lemon
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 2 tablespoons fresh parsley
- 1/2 teaspoon dried thyme
- 1/3 teaspoon paprika
- Directions:
- Place the onion in the cavity of the chicken and rub the skin with butter. Place chicken in slow cooker.
- Squeeze lemon juice over chicken and sprinkle with remaining seasonings.
- Cover and cook on LOW 8-10 hours or on HIGH 4-5 hours.
- Serves: 4-6
- Chicken Cacciatore:
- 2-3 onions
- thinly sliced
- 2-4 pounds chicken
- skinned (breasts or thighs
- 1 - 28 ounce can plum tomatoes
- chopped
- 1/2 cup dry white wine or broth
- salt and pepper
- 5 cloves garlic
- minced
- 2 tablespoons capers
- 20 pitted Kalamata olives
- copped coarsely
- 1 bunch fresh parsley or basil
- stemmed and coarsely chopped
- cooked pasta
- Directions:
- Place sliced onion in slow cooker and cover with chicken.
- In bowl
- stir tomatoes
- salt
- pepper
- garlic and white wine together. Pour over chicken.
- Cover and cook on LOW 5-6 hours or on HIGH for 3-4 hours or until chickem is tender.
- Stir in capers
- olives and herbs just before serving.
- Serve over cooked pasta.
- Serves: 4-8
- Chili:
- 2 large onions
- chopped
- 5-6 cloves garlic
- minced
- 2 green peppers
- chopped
- 2-3 pounds ground beef
- cooked and drained
- 2 - 14-ounce cans red
- black or white beans
- rinsed and drained
- 1 - 14-ounce can diced tomatoes
- 2 jalapenos
- seeded and minced
- 1 tablespoon cumin
- 1 teaspoon cayenne pepper
- 1/2 cup beef broth
- Directions:
- Add all ingredients to slow cooker.
- Cover and cook on LOW for 8-9 hours or on HIGH for 4-5 hours.
- Serves: 6-8
- Pot Roast:
- 2-4 pound beef chuck pot roast
- 1/2 cup flour
- sat and pepper
- 3 carrots
- sliced
- 3 potatoes
- quartered
- 3 onions
- sliced
- 2 stalks celery
- sliced
- 1 cup mushrooms
- sliced
- 1 cup beef broth or wine
- Directions:
- Coat roast with flour
- salt and pepper. Sear roast in a skillet on stove top.
- Place all vegetables in slow cooker
- except mushrooms. Add roast and spread mushrooms on top. Pour in liquid.
- Cover and cook on LOW for 10-12 hours or on HIGH for 6-8 hours or until tender.
- Serves: 6-10
- Beef Stew:
- 2-4 pounds beef chuck stew meat
- cut into 1-inch cubes
- 1/2 cup flour
- salt and pepper
- 3 cups beef broth
- 1 tablespoon Worcestershire sauce
- 3 cloves garlic
- minced
- 2 bay leaves
- 6 small potatoes
- quartered
- 2-3 onions
- chopped
- 3 celery stalks
- sliced
- Directions:
- Sprinkle flour
- salt and pepper over meat. Place meat in slow cooker.
- Add remaining ingredients and stir well.
- Cover and cook on LOW for 8-10 hours or on HIGH for 5-6 hours or until meat is tender. Stir thoroughly before serving.
- Serves:6-8
- Easy
- Healthy Fish Filet:
- Salt and Pepper
- 2-3 pounds of white fish (cod
- sea bass
- tilapia or catfish) skinned
- fresh herbs (parsley
- basil
- tarragon
- savory)
- 2-3 lemons
- thinly sliced
- prepared salsa or olive tapenade to garnish
- Directions:
- Salt and Pepper both sides of the fish and place on slow cooker. Cover top of fish with herbs and lemon slices and tuck some under fish.
- Cover and cook on HIGH for 30-40 minutes or until no longer translucent. Cook times very depending on the thickness of the fish.
- Remove lemon slices and top with salsa or tapenade.
- Serves: 4-6
Instructions:
Check for "doneness".
My last roast was a little too well done for me. :)
Meat Cut Meat Weight "LOW" Cook Time "HIGH" Cook Time
Beef Roast 3-4 Pounds 8 Hours 6 Hours
Beef Stew Meat 3 Pounds 6 Hours 5 Hours
Pork Roast 6-7 Pounds 9 - 1/2 Hours 7 - 1/2 Hours
Chicken - whole 6 Pounds 7 - 1/2 Hours 6 - 1/2 Hours
Chicken - Breast - Thighs 3 Pounds 4 - 5 Hours 2 - 3 Hours
Fish 3 Pounds 3- 1/2 Hours 1 - 1/2 Hours
Lamb - Roast 3 Pounds 7-8 hours 3 - 4 Hours