Crock Pot Corned Beef | Slow Cooker Beef | Corned Beef Recipe

I use my slow cooker almost everyday, so I was surprised to learn that many people only use their slow cookers to cook corned beef.  Having said that, the slow does take the stress out watching a pot on the stove - something that is just not possible for cooks these days, and it does a wonderful job of making the most tender and delicious meat!

If you have a slow cooker with multiple inserts, you don't have to worry about the size of the piece of meat you choose.  I find my round 3 quart slow cooker can take up to a 4 pound (2kg) piece of corned beef, so long as it is a cube, rather than a rectangle.

My mum has limited pantry space in her RV, so when she's on the road, to cook corned beef in her slow cooker, she just buys a bottle of gingerale at the same time as the meat and cooks it in that.  Yes, just two ingredients, the piece of corned beef and sufficient gingerale to cover or almost cover the meat.  No other spices required!

Crock Pot Corned Beef | Slow Cooker Beef

This is my favorite crock pot corned beef recipe.

3-1/2 lb (1.5kg) piece of corned beef
1 heaped tsp ground ginger
6 whole cloves
2 Tbsp vinegar
1 Tbsp brown sugar
water to cover or almost cover the meat

Add the ingredients in the order listed and turn the slow cooker on to low for 6-7 hours or until the meat thermometer reads 77F of 170C.

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Moroccan-Style Chickpea and Chicken Soup | Crock Pot Chicken Soup Recipe

This soup makes a substantial and delicious meal for four to six adults. Hearty and warming enough to serve in the depths of winter, it is also light and fresh enough to enjoy as an easy summer meal.

To make a soup meal more fun, it is nice to have some special soup bowls to serve substantial soups like this one in.  This color is perfect for winter - click the picture to see the other colors this bowl is available in.

Moroccan-Style Chickpea and Chicken Soup

Serves 4 to 6

Cooks in 3½ to 4½ hours on low

1 Tbsp olive or canola oil

2 large boneless, skinless, fat trimmed chicken breasts (about 1lb or 500g)

1 medium to large onion, peeled, quartered and sliced

1 large carrot, peeled and diced

1 tsp ground cumin

1 tsp ground coriander

½ tsp tumeric

½ tsp chilli powder

¼ tsp ground cinnamon

2 x 400g canned diced tomatoes in juice

3 Cups chicken stock

2 x 300g cans chickpeas, rinsed and drained

1 tsp paprika

zest and juice of a lemon

½ – 1 tsp salt

garnish with 3-4 Tsp chopped fresh coriander and sour cream when serving

• Heat the oil in a large frypan. Add the chicken breasts, whole, and cook over a high heat for 2 minutes on each side, brown lightly. While they are cooking, prepare the vegetables.
• Coat the inside of the crock pot insert with non-stick spray. Transfer the lightly browned chicken to the slow cooker.
• Add the vegetables to the frypan and scramble fry for 3-5 minutes to soften the onion. Stir in the cumin, coriander, tumeric, chilli powder and cinnamon, continue to cook for another minute.
• Add the vegetables and the remaining ingredients (except garnish). Stir to combine, cover and cook on low for 3½ to 4½ hours.
• Remove chicken from slow cooker and set aside until cool enough to handle. Using two forks, shred the meat and return it to the slow cooker. Stir in most of the fresh chopped coriander and cook for another 15-30 minutes.

Serve the soup in pre-warmed soup bowls, add a little dollop of sour cream, sprinkle with chopped coriander and with team up with a crusty loaf or warmed flat breads.

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Sausage and Potato Slow Cooker Curry | Easy Slow Cooker Recipe

Curried sausage with potatoes - simple and inexpensive but great hearty fare for when the temperature has dipped and hungry tummies are gathering in the kitchen.  It's days like those that you will be so glad you bought a large slow cooker - and filled it up that morning with this easy slow cooker recipe.

It amazes me how such humble, inexpensive ingredients can turn into such a wonderful, aroma rich dish, in a slow cooker. Recipes like this are easily stretched too, just by adding a can of drained chickpeas and other cooked vegetables when you add the peas and sultanas can gain you a couple of extra servings.  Put an extra couple of potatoes in the pot so there is lots of mashed potatoes to go around and you will have them coming back for more!

Sausage and Potato Slow Cooker Curry | Easy Slow Cooker Recipe

Serves 6

Cook on low 8 hours

4 potatoes (2lb / 800g) cut into thick but even sized wedges

12 (4lb or 1.8kg) beef sausages

2 medium brown onions

2 Tbsp mild curry powder

400g crushed tomatoes in puree/juice

1 C beef stock

1 cup frozen peas thawed

½ C saltanas

• Place the potatoes around the edges of the slow cooker, add the sausages. If you want to brown the sausages, first and then fry the onion and curry, add the rest of the ingredients (except peas and saltanas) to frypan to deglaze before adding to slow cooker, it will make the sausages look better when you serve them.
• Cover and cook on low 8 hours.
• Twenty minutes before serving, check seasonings and adjust if necessary.  If you want to thicken the gravy with a little of the cooking liquid (3 tablespoons) and 1 tablespoon cornstarch mixed to a smooth paste, then do that now.
• Stir in peas and saltanas and cook on high for a further 20 minutes.
• Serve on rice, mashed potatoes or with crusty bread and stretch the servings further by adding lots of different vegetables to each plate.

Enjoy!

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Pork Roast In A Crock Pot | Spiced Apple Roast of Slow Cooker Pork

I just love pork roast in a slow cooker - it comes out so tasty and tender.  And when you add spices and apple, a whole new dimension of complementing tastes happens - you have to try this next time you are cooking slow cooker pork roast - it's so good!

If you are in the market for a new slow cooker, and you cook slow cooker roast recipes frequently, you will be pleased to know about the best and most unique feature on this - the best selling 6 quart programmable slow cooker!  It has a built in meat thermometer. To cook this pork roast in the slow cooker, you would insert the probe into the thickest part and or into the middle of the roast, press the probe option button, choose high or low, choose 160 degrees and press cook and it's done - easy peasy!

How does the meat thermometer probe work?  Step back a step, the optimum internal temperature for a roast of pork around this weight to cook to, to be succulent, tasty and tenderly, perfectly cooked is 160 degrees.  So when your Hamilton Beach with meat thermometer probe reaches this ideal temperature, it will automatically switch to keep warm mode and weight for you to serve it up.  What a great invention!


Spiced Apple Roast of Slow Cooker Pork

Serves 6-8

Cook on low for 8 to 10 hours or on high for 4 to 5 hours.

3.5-4.5lb (1.5-2kg) pork roast

2 Tbsp dijon mustard

2 tsp ground ginger

½ tsp ground cinnamon

½ C apple juice

• Mix mustard and spices together and brush over the pork.
• Put pork in slow cooker and add apple juice around it.
• Cover and cook on low for 8 to 10 hours or on high for 4 to 5 hours.

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