If you have a crock pot gathering dust in the back of your kitchen cabinet, there are abundance of recipes that can help you make easy meals that are not only delicious, but inexpensive to make as well. The many crock pot recipes are simple to make- just toss the ingredients in and let them cook all day while you're at work. When you walk in the door, you'll be greeted by the warm and tantalizing smell of a home-cooked meal. Here are 5 easy-to-use slow cooker recipes to try out. Most use very few ingredients, and less tender cuts of meat, so they are cheap to fix but they taste great!
With the this handy kitchen piece of equipment, simple recipes yield the best results. Soups are about the easiest thing to make, and most only need simple ingredients. For example, the tomato soup you can make in your slow cooker is so much good than the stuff that comes in a can. Just take a pound of chopped tomatoes, a pint of stock, and a chopped onion. Simmer on the low setting for about three hours, then puree it in the blender. If you like you can add fresh basil while the cook time. For creamy tomato soup, add milk before you serve. There are many more soup recipes that are ideal for the crock pot.
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Most slow cooked chicken recipes can easily be made in this special pot. Also, when you make chicken this way, you get a lot of yummy chicken broth that's so much good than store-bought. Ice it in small batches to use in other recipes that call for chicken broth. To make chicken for a slow cooked recipe, put chicken, celery, onion, carrot, and garlic in the crock pot. Cook overnight or for at least ten hours. Remove chicken, skim the fat off the top, and cool the broth to be frosty later.
Here's a yummy pulled pork recipe: In your crock pot, combine 2 cups of barbecue sauce and a four pound pork roast. Coat the meat with the sauce, and cook, covered, for six hours. You'll get sufficient yummy pulled pork to feed a crowd!
Chili recipes lend themselves especially well to crock pot cooking. For inexpensive chili, use dry beans (they cook especially well in the crock pot). Simmer a bag of beans and onion in chicken broth for three or four hours on the low setting. When the beans are cooked, add chicken or beef, chopped peppers and onions, and simmer for other hour or so.
There are quite a few stew recipes for the crock pot, too. Beef stew is a yummy and relatively inexpensive way to feed your family with not a whole lot of effort. Just take a pound of cubed beef, some chopped carrots, onions and potatoes, cover them with beef broth, and cook them on the lowest setting for up to ten hours. Add herbs, garlic and thyme or rosemary for even more flavor.
With these easy and cheap crock pot recipes, you can cook a tasty meal with a minimum of effort. Try one of these yummy recipes today!
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