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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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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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!

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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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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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Crock Pot Beef Stew and Chickpeas with Spinach | Crock Pot Beef Stew Recipe

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

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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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