Easy Slow Cooker Beef Stew | Crock Pot Beef Stew | Large Slow Cooker

Super easy slow cooker beef stew - an essential recipe to arm your family against cooler days. If you only need 4 servings for dinner, be sure to cook extra vegetables so you can then add them to the left over stew and freeze it.  This makes a great stew to have on toast for a quick weekend lunch or dinner.

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Easy Slow Cooker Beef Stew

Serves 6

Cook on low for 8 hours

1lb Italian sausages

1lb beef stew, cubed to bite size

1 Cup beef stock

1 Tbsp Worcestershire sauce

2 Tbsp tomato paste

2 cloves garlic crushed and chopped

10oz quartered mushrooms

2 celery sticks, thinly sliced

1 tsp oregano

1 cauliflower (about 4 cups) cut to bite size

¼ tsp Tabasco sauce

freshly ground pepper to taste

Add all ingredients to slow cooker, stir to combine, cover and cook on low for 8 hours, stir well before serving.  If you can resist the temptation to eat it the day you make it, this stew tastes even better reheated the next day.  

Serve over buttered pasta or with creamy mashed potatoes, seasonal greens and your favorite vegetables for a hearty, warming meal. Enjoy!

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I love to cook slow cooker chicken recipes, they always make the meat so tender and tasty.  And I especially like a well flavored slow cooker chicken casserole, like this Cranberry Chicken recipe.  A 4 quart slow cooker, such as this magnificent Cuisinart is ideal for this slow cooker chicken recipe.

It's a very more-ish, tasty recipe and should be enjoyed by all the family.

The recipe calls for chicken thighs, but if you want to use another cut of chicken, that will work just as well, use the weight measurement given, as your guide.  Enjoy!

Slow Cooker Cranberry Chicken

Serves 5-6

Cook on low for 6-7 hours or on high for 3-½ to 4 hours

7-8 boneless, skinless chicken thighs, about 2.2lbs /1kg

3 Tbsp flour

3 cloves garlic, crushed

1 tsp onion salt

¼ tsp ground cloves

zest of one orange

3 Tbsp tomato paste

3 Tbsp marmalade

¼ C lemon juice

½ C chicken stock

½ C dried cranberries

• Toss chicken with flour in a plastic bag, shake off any excess.
• Put the remainder of the ingredients in the slow cooker then add chicken, turn through sauce so chicken is coated.
• Cook on low for 6-7 hours or on high for 3-½ to 4 hours.

Serve with couscous or rice, julienne carrots, green vege and or salad.

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Do you have a potato ricer? It's a fancy potato masher that makes the most creamy mashed potatoes you've ever had – it's what those fancy chefs on TV use to make those deliciously creamy mashes with. But it also has another use – pressing out the water in the spinach - as specified is necessary in this recipe! A very handy little tool. 

I justified the purchase of a potato ricer because my family prefers mashed sweet potato to any other kind of carb with dinner (almost every night) and I cook with spinach and serve it as a vegetable regularly. 

I only use my old potato masher now when I need to change the texture of vegetables in a slow cooker soup recipe!

Beef Stew and Chickpeas with Spinach

Serves 6

Cook on low for 8 hours

1 tsp raw or brown sugar

1 Tbsp Worcestershire sauce
1 cube beef bouillon

1 cup water

¼ cup tomato paste

2lbs beef cubed and trimmed of fat

1 onion chopped finely

14oz can of chickpeas, drained

10oz package frozen spinach, thawed, water pressed out

• Add the sugar, Worcestershire sauce and beef bouillon to the slow cooker and dissolve with some of the water.
• Add the tomato paste and then the rest of the water, stir to combine.
• Add the remaining ingredients, stir to combine, cover and cook on low for 8 hours.

When I first made this, I cooked it with the intention of eating it the next day, reheated.  The gravy had thickened and the flavors had developed.  I had enough for two meals, so I added a teaspoon of curry powder to the second quantity before storing it.  When we ate that we really enjoyed it with a bit of extra 'kick'.  The tomato-spinach-beef gravy lends itself well to the spice, so you could either put 2 teaspoons of curry powder in at the beginning of cooking or just before serving.  Delightfully different and certainly tasty!

Easy Crock Pot Chicken | Honey Mustard Glazed Chicken | Smart Pot Slow Cooker

This classic, tasty, easy crock pot chicken will be enjoyed by the whole family – and even though it's super-quick to get it together, it is one of those recipes that can be assembled the night before and left in the fridge overnight in a zip-lock bag.  Then in the morning all you have to do is pour the contents of the bag into the slow cooker, set it and let it do it's thing!

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Honey Mustard Glazed Easy Crock Pot Chicken

Serves 4-6

Cook on low for 5 to 6 hours or on high for 3 to 3-½ hours.

6 chicken thighs, skinless, boneless, trimmed of all fat

3 Tbsp flour

1 Tbsp dijon mustard

1 Tbsp honey

1 Tbsp soy sauce

½ tsp prepared chilli

2 cloves garlic, crushed

2 Tbsp tomato paste

¾ Cup

chicken stock

Toss chicken with flour in a plastic bag, shake off any excess.

Put the remainder of the first list of ingredients in the slow cooker, then add chicken, stir through sauce so chicken is coated.

Cover and cook on low for 5 to 6 hours or on high for 3 to 3-½ hours.

Serve with cooking juice spooned over the chicken.

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