What do you like to make in your Crock Pot?

Chicken soup!! Throw in chicken (bone in), chopped onion, parsley, other spices, celery, carrots and water. Cook on low for 6 to 10 hours. Add some orzo, rice or noodles.

Ribs--boil the ribs first--gets rid of all the excess fat. I often boil the day before and then put in the fridge so they are ready to throw in the next morning. Throw boiled ribs in crockpot on low for 6 hours with favorite bbq sauce--bake to carmelize sauce a bit--yummy!

Pot Roast--Brown the roast. Throw in with some A1 & Diana BBQ sauce and water. Low for 6 to 10 hours.

Beef stew. Stewing beef, A1 sauce, can of chopped tomatoes. Brown meat in some spices. Cook on low for as long as you want and add veggies for the last hour.
 
Southerngirl said:
Do you put the chicken in raw.....?? It sounds so good but I am leery about putting chicken in uncoooked.


I always do and have never had a problem...although I understand your concern.

I always brown my pork, beef stew meat and hamburg first.

Kim
 
6 boneless loin pork chops
1 cup of your favorite barbeque sauce (I like Sweet Baby Ray's Honey BBQ)
1 small can of crushed pineapple in its own juice

Put all ingredients in the crock pot and cook on high 3-5 hours or on low for 6-8 hours. Very simple - but yummy. I serve with white rice.
 
I haven't had much success with white meat chicken recipes. Maybe if you don't cook it all day, it can work, but I've yet to find a white meat chicken recipe where the chicken doesn't come out like sawdust.

That said, I make a chicken, pineapple and rice dish from a magazine recipe that uses boneless, skinless thigh meat, and it comes out very good.

The things that come out best for me: chili, stew, pot roast, corned beef, steak pizzaiola, pork chops and broccoli.

The steak and pork chop dishes are family recipes I adapted to the crock pot. Any dish that is prepared by long, slow cooking works well in the crock pot.

I love this website for ideas: www.crockerykitchen.com

There's a pepper steak recipe in there that's awesome.
 

Hooray! I love crockpot threads! I've gotten such good ideas in the past.

Thanks for the link to the recipe site!

Here are a few I've pulled and tried before:

***Crockpot Macaroni and Cheese

8oz. box of macaroni-cooked and drained
3 cups shredded Mild cheddar cheese (I used sharp this time)
1 cup shredded Mozzerella cheese
2 eggs
1 1/2 cups milk
3/4 stick margarine
1 large can evaporated milk
Salt and Pepper

Melt margarine in crock pot.
Layer macaroni and cheese.
Beat eggs and add both milks.
Pour into crockpot over macaroni and cheese.
Top with remaining cheese.
Turn crockpot on low and cook 3 hours.


***Crock pot Roast
I never add water when cooking a roast in the crockpot. I find that the roast has its own water and if I add water it is way too much water! I also love the 3 packet roast (1 packet of ranch dressing mix, italian dressing mix and french onion dressing mix) which I mix together in a measuring cup. I quarter some potatoes and put them in the bottom of the pot and then sprinkle some of the dressing mix over them, put the roast on the top and poke some holes in it, while spreading the rest of the dressing mix over the top of the roast. Pop on the top of the cooker and cook for about 5 hours on low. The seasonings make the potatoes and roast just melt in your mouth. You could add carrots to the potatoes too if you wanted. YUMMY! We make this at least once a week in the winter (normally on Sunday). Enjoy!

Or try 1 pkg of onion soup mix, a little water, and 1 can cream of mushroom soup over a roast. I usually cook mine all day on low. The soups make a gravy that you can serve over mashed potatoes. It's yummy.


***Chicken Delicious:
4 boneless skinless chicken breasts
1 can cream of mushroom soup
1 can cream of chicken soup
1/2 C sherry cooking wine (or whatever wine you may have open)
Parmesan Cheese
Rice

Mix soups and sherry wine in bowl. Whisk together until well blended. Place thawed chicken breasts in a crockpot. Cover with soup mix. Sprinkle Parmesan cheese over the top. Cook 6-8 hours on low heat in crockpot.

Serve over rice.


***Hawaiian Chicken
4 to 6 boneless, skinless chicken breasts
1 - 8oz can crushed pineapple
1 - 16oz bottle barbecue sauce
4 to 6 cups cooked rice

Place meat in a greased crock pot. Combine pineapple and barbecue sauce and pour over meat. Cook on high for 3-4 hours or on low heat 6-8 hours. Serve over rice.

Makes 4-6 servings.


***Italian Chicken with mushrooms
4 boneless, skinless chicken breasts
1 envelope Italian salad dressing mix
1/4 cup water
1 - 8oz package of cream cheese
1 - 10 3/4 oz can cream of chicken soup (condensed)
1 - 4oz can mushroom stems and pieces (drained)

Place meat in a greased crock pot. Combine salad dressing mix and water, pour over meat. Cover and cook on high heat for 3 hrs. In a small bowl, beat cream cheese and soup until blended. Stir in mushrooms. Pour over chicken. Cook 2 hrs longer on hig heat or until chicken juices run clear.

Serve over cooked egg noodles.

Makes 4 servings.


***Crockpot Chocolate Mess
1 pkg. chocolate cake mix
1 3-oz. pkg. instant chocolate pudding mix
4 eggs
1 cup water
2 cups sour cream
3/4 cup oil
1 6-oz. bag chocolate chips


Spray a 4 quart crockpot with non-stick cooking spray and set aside. In a large bowl, combine the cake mix and pudding mix. In a medium bowl, beat the eggs with the water, then add the sour cream and oil and beat until smooth. Add to the dry ingredients and beat well. Stir in the chocolate chips.

Pour into crockpot. Cover slow cooker and cook on low for 6-8 hours, until top springs back when touched very lightly with finger. 8-10 servings
 
After a roasted chicken dinner (made in the oven) I carve all the leftover usable chicken off the bones and store that in the fridge. Then I take all the bones, skin, etc and throw it into my crockpot along with one whole peeled garlic clove, some celery tops, diced carrot and some pepper. Fill the crock pot with water and cook on low overnight. In the morning I strain the broth and place that in the fridge. Pull the fat off and you're good to go. Sometimes I simmer this way down and freeze it in ice cube trays. It makes ice cubes of incredibly concentrated chicken stock. This is why I don't add salt into the crockpot.
 
My DH LOVES my chicken enchiladas...and they all start with a crock pot!

I use boneless chicken breasts and enough canned enchilada sauce to just cover them...cook on low for 8 hours or so, then pull them out of the sauce and they practically fall apart on the plate. I pull it all apart and mix sour cream, diced green chilies, onion and shredded cheese. Then we wrap them in tortillas, pour some of the leftover sauce on them and bake for an additional 15-20 minutes (just to get the cheese all melty)...YUMM!!!

We use the leftovers for more enchiladas or some great chicken nachos!
 
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Stew, chili, corned beef, I'm making a Pot Roast w/horseradish gravy tomorrow
 
I have a rump roast in mine right now! The only thing I HATE in a crock-pot is potatoes. I have tried cooking potatoes with my meat, and baking potates wrapped in foil and cheesy potatoes and they all have this really stange taste I don't like. I can even tell when someones brings a dish if the potatoes have been cooked in a crock-pot.

I love mine for turkey breast, roasts, and meat that needs to cook all day.
 
WDWAurora said:
Nah, that one hasn't been dry on me. If it was though, you could shred it up like bbq (with a fork, it's that tender, falls apart) and just spoon the "sauce" over it...We serve it over rice and spoon the sauce over anyway. I like doing it with "tenders" instead of breasts...The smaller pieces seem to take in more of the liquid. It would be good for your daughter for sure, that's literally ALL I put in it.


Thanks Aurora, I am going to try it. Maybe the problem is cooking it too long. I will put a meat themomter in it maybe and try not to let the temp get too high.

Even the shreded chicken with sause is too dry.

I really like this thread. I love the ideas. I need more. Keep them coming.
 
rcyannacci said:
Hooray! I love crockpot threads! I've gotten such good ideas in the past.

Thanks for the link to the recipe site!

Here are a few I've pulled and tried before:

***Crockpot Macaroni and Cheese

8oz. box of macaroni-cooked and drained
3 cups shredded Mild cheddar cheese (I used sharp this time)
1 cup shredded Mozzerella cheese
2 eggs
1 1/2 cups milk
3/4 stick margarine
1 large can evaporated milk
Salt and Pepper

Melt margarine in crock pot.
Layer macaroni and cheese.
Beat eggs and add both milks.
Pour into crockpot over macaroni and cheese.
Top with remaining cheese.
Turn crockpot on low and cook 3 hours.

hehe It cracks me up to see a recipe of my own on here! I posted this one over on the cooking, crafting and scrapping board a while back. If you only knew how much my family makes fun of me because they think I can't cook-now other people are using my recipe! (Not that I made it up or anything, but noone had heard of it when I posted it over there.) :rotfl:
 
antkim said:
OMG! This was great! I tired it today. Dh loved it and asked how I made it????

"Remember how I needed to go but a can of soda this morning? Well, I mixed it with soy sauce....done!"!!!! That was the QUICKEST dinner I have EVER made...and yummy! Looks like I will be keeping ornage soda around a lot! :rotfl2:
I'm glad you liked it! DH (was DBf the first time he had it) was the same way-what is IN this?
 
Southerngirl said:
Do you put the chicken in raw.....?? It sounds so good but I am leery about putting chicken in uncoooked.
Yeah, I definitely put it in there raw. If you're worried at the end, do the meat thermometer, but after it slow cooks for 6 hrs it's always been done for meI think if you put it in there already cooked that it wouldn't need to cook for NEARLY as long. If you did I think it would become overcoooked.
 
Probably my favorite crock pot recipe would be Italian Beef.

3 lb. chuck roast (boneless)
1 pkg. Good Seasons Dressing (dry)
1 pkg. dry onion soup mix
1/2 cup water

Put roast in crockpot and pour in water, onion soup and Good Seasons. Cook on low for 9 - 10 hours. Shred the meat & mix the juice in crockpot. Serve on french rolls or buns. Sometime we'll add a slice of pepperjack cheese too! Very tender and yummy!
 
WDWAurora said:
Yeah, I definitely put it in there raw. If you're worried at the end, do the meat thermometer, but after it slow cooks for 6 hrs it's always been done for meI think if you put it in there already cooked that it wouldn't need to cook for NEARLY as long. If you did I think it would become overcoooked.


What about putting frozen in there? Any luck with that?
 
DisneyPhD said:
My problem with chicken is it comes out some dry. Like suck the water out of your mouth dry. This sounds good though. Orange soda, really? I might give it a try. (looking for no milk or eggs dinner for DD with allergy, so that would be good.)

Try putting the chicken in the crockpot frozen....this was a tip I learned from a crock pot message board....it does really help to keep it from getting 'suck the water out of your mouth dry!"
 
My favorite recipe to cook in the crock pot is stuffed peppers!!!! I love the smell when I walk in the house from a long day of work and smell those stuffed peppers cooking!!! (stuff peppers the way you normally would with a beef and rice mixture, put in crock, pour a jar of spaghetti sauce over the peppers, cook on low all day....YUM!!!!)
Meatballs and sauce is an easy dinner to come home to also...have the rolls and cheese waiting!!
I also like to cook the roast that someone else posted on here (with Good Seasons dressing)...and I also like to add a can of Pepsi in there too! Sooo yummy!!!!
One of my favorties is pork roast.....rub the roast with the Good Season packet of italian dressing, put in crock pot, pour a bottle of italian dressing over the pork, cook on low all day.....absolutley delicious!!!!!
I cook alot of things in my crock pot during the cold winter months.
 
This was my MIL's recipe. I used to come home from work to find that she had "broke into" my house ;) and put this on in the crockpot. She thought I wasn't capable of feeding her son the way he was accustomed, so used to do this pretty often...this was my favorite out of the things she used to make in my crockpot. She also used to leave a package of egg noodles on the counter for me to serve with it. Mashed potatoes go really well, too.

Company Beef

1 1/2 lb. stew beef
1 envelope dry onion soup mix
1 can cream of mushroom soup
8 oz. fresh mushrooms, sliced
1 c. ginger ale

Cut up beef into bite sized pieces, put in crockpot with all other ingredients on low and cook for 6 hours. Serve over egg noodles.

Good also with rice or mashed potatoes.


ReneeA
 













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