Crock Pot Recipes

Timber99

Timber99

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I inherited my mom's crock pot years ago and actually started using it more recently. Can anyone can suggest a good place on-line to find (healthy) recipes? Does anyone have any good recipes?

I've made pot roast, beef veggie soup and a chicken dish so far. The chicken dish wasn't worth repeating but the others were pretty good. It's so nice to come home to the meal almost completely finished after a long day of work ;)

Christine
 
Check out allrecipes.com

Put slowcooker or crockpot in the search bar. Lots of yummy recipes. Also, you can modify lower calorie ingredient substitutions.

Another book that I love is Saving Dinner by Leanne Ely. It is a great book to have if you have a family. She breaks the book up into 4 sections, according to season. At the begining of each week she gives you a complete grocery list. It was 52 weeks worth of great menus. She is a RD, so it is balanced and very healthy. Each week she has a crockpot recipe. They are healthy and offer a lot of variety. BTW this book saves you a lot of money on groceries and you never have to worry what you and your family are going to have for dinner each night! :)

Lori
 
Hi Christine, I use my crock pot regularly. It's awesome. I don't know if you consider this healthy, but my family loves it.

Slow Cooked Lemon Chicken
6 chicken breasts
1 tsp. dried oregano
1/2 tsp. season salt
1/4 tsp. pepper
2 T. butter
1/4 c. water
3 T. Lemon juice
2 cloves garlic minced
1 tsp. chiken boullion granules
2 tsp. minced fresh parsley

Combine dry seasonings and rub over chick breasts. In a skillet over med. heat brown chicken in butter. Tansfer to slow cooker. Add water, garlic, lemon juice and boullion to same skillet, bring to boil. Pour over chiken and cook on low for 3-4 hours. Baste and add parsely (optional) and cook 15 min. longer. Serve over rice.

This is really tastey. I add a little more lemon juice.
 
Christine, I love my slow cooker, but detest most of the recipes and cookbooks for them. It seems as though many crockpot recipes have ingredients that include cans of soup (yuck). I love to cook and came up with my own slow cooker recipes, but still wanted a quality cookbook. Finally, a wonderful slow cooker cookbook was just released. It is called: Not Your Mothers Slow Cooker Cook Book, by Beth Hensberger (she is famous for her bread cookbooks). The recipes are not complicated and use fresh ingredients.
 
I'd also recommend " The Gourmet Slow Cooker: Simple and Sophisticated meals from Around the World" Indian, French, Italian, Mexican...lip smacking good.
 
I make anything I make in a pot, it just takes longer. Tomato sauce - you can throw chicken in it and make chicken catatori, or chicken soup, or anything you'd make in a pot. I love it, it's just a pain to clean out when your done unless you have the model where the inside comes out of the unit. If I ever get another one, it will be that model.
Faythe
ps check out amazon.com for recipe books for crock pot's. I have one, it may give you some good ideas.
Faythe
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Meatloaf works very well in the crock pot as does most anything else except pork perhaps. I just recently started cooking Turkey thighs in it (DH loves them). I season them with BBQ sauce, or top them with a can of diced tomatoes and let them cook.

For meatloaf, I just make my usual recipe and instead of cooking it in the oven, put it in the slow cooker. Works great!

I cooked Chicken Cacciatore on Saturday and DH loved it!
 
They call for bone in, but I use boneless. I will never cook with a bone in piece of meat in the crock pot again, especially small bones. They come apart in the crock pot and it's a mess to fish out. Hope you like Timber!
 
>Hi Christine, I use my crock pot regularly. It's awesome. I
>don't know if you consider this healthy, but my family loves
>it.
>
>Slow Cooked Lemon Chicken
>6 chicken breasts
>1 tsp. dried oregano
>1/2 tsp. season salt
>1/4 tsp. pepper
>2 T. butter
>1/4 c. water
>3 T. Lemon juice
>2 cloves garlic minced
>1 tsp. chiken boullion granules
>2 tsp. minced fresh parsley
>
>Combine dry seasonings and rub over chick breasts. In a
>skillet over med. heat brown chicken in butter. Tansfer to
>slow cooker. Add water, garlic, lemon juice and boullion to
>same skillet, bring to boil. Pour over chiken and cook on low
>for 3-4 hours. Baste and add parsely (optional) and cook 15
>min. longer. Serve over rice.
>
>This is really tastey. I add a little more lemon juice.
>
>

FAB40 - GREAT RECIPE! I tried this a couple of weeks ago and we really liked it. Thank you!
 
I usually use cream of soup, ff salad dressing or regular marinade for spices. Then I cover with regular chicken broth. I put in chicken and red potatoes. Italian and garlic seasoning. Not very creative, basic, simple and easy.

Colleen
 
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