Hi guys, welcome back to my channel and to a week of slow cooker meals. Today I'm going to show you
seven more delicious recipes that you can easily make in your slow cooker, because you seemed to
love the last video that I made like this. And today we're focusing on summer recipes.
Because I think when you normally think of a slow cooker meal, it's very warming, and comforting,
and perfect for autumn and winter. But today I wanted to show you some amazing recipes that are
perfect for summer. If you're having a barbecue, or you're entertaining, or you wanted to have
something on the side, these recipes are going to be perfect for that. And I don't want to sound big
headed, but there are some really, really good ones in this video. So I'll be sure to link them
in the description down below. So if you do want to remake them,
please go ahead and follow those links and we'll use timestamps as well, so you can easily flip
through all of the meals. But if you're new to my channel, then my name's Emily, and I
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And all that said, let's get into the recipes. Okay. So first off, I'm going to be showing you
how to make slow cooker honey and mustard chicken thighs. This one is so delicious,
and it's very simple to make. You can also make it go a long way. And I love
using chicken thighs in the slow cooker because they're very tender. They're very juicy. They're a
bit cheaper to buy. There's just loads of flavor. So this is everything you're going to need. As
I said, I will link the full recipe in the description so you can check it out.
But the method is, you put a little bit of butter into a frying pan, or if you have a slow cooker
that has a frying pan setting, you can do that as well. That's what I've got.
And then, once it's all melted, you just put in your chicken thighs. This recipe calls for
eight chicken thighs, but I had six. But as you can see, you can make it bigger, and you can
make it last for more nights if you want to. So now just seasoning with salt and pepper.
Actually, these are Matt's hands. Matt did this one. And you just want to brown the
chicken thighs and the spring onion. And then once that's done you want to add in at the rest
of the ingredients. So there was chicken stock, some mustard, I think it was Dijon mustard, and
some honey as well. And that is literally it for this point. And then you put the slow
cooker on low for four hours, I believe. Normally with chicken I put it on high,
but because it has been browned I think you do this one on low. And then you do that for four
hours, and then about 15 minutes towards the end you just add in a little bit of cream, or
sour cream, and then some peas as well. So just have that in for 15 minutes and then all the
peas cook and it's like a nice creamy sauce. And it's literally that simple. It's all done.
So it's nice, it's only four hours. So you could put this on at lunchtime, or in the afternoon and
have it for dinner. We served it with a little potatoes and some vegetables. But as it's a
summer one, you could have it with salad if you wanted to. And yeah, it's just really delicious,
very sweet. So the kids really liked it. This one is really one to try. It was
so morrish that we had seconds, and it's a prawn and choritzo paella, and we made this
with risotto rice, but the recipe did call for orzo pasta. So you can make it either way.
And I've laid out all the ingredients here, which makes it look very daunting. But it's honestly
one of the easiest ones to do. You pretty much chuck everything in, and it only takes
about two and a half hours in your slow cooker. So first off, I'm just putting in some olive oil
and some finely chopped onions into the slow cooker. And in a lot of soul cooker recipes
you have to brown the onions. But in this one you don't, you literally just chuck it in. So that's
nice. And then I've also put in some chopped up [choritzo 00:03:45], some cherry tomatoes,
some chopped up celery. About a small glass of white wine. And don't worry, if you are giving
this to the kids, the alcohol will cook off of the wine during the cooking process. And then
also some vegetable stock or some chicken stock. And then you put it on high for about two hours.
And then after those two hours, you then add your risotto rice, or orzo as I said,
and also the prawns. That was it, the raw prawns. So just put that in for about 25 minutes, check
the risotto rice. Because I felt like ours wasn't really done until 30 to 40 minutes. And that is
it. Because it's been cooking there for two and a half hours, all the flavors work so well together,
it's very salty because of the choritzo. It's just got a lovely sauce, and it was really delicious.
Jackson really liked this one, but he loves rice dishes. And yeah, I would totally recommend it.
And we got a couple of nights out of this one as well. And we're just serving it with a wedge
of lemon, and some chopped up a parsley as well. And what about Sloppy Joe's in the slow cooker?
This is such a good one. And it's a very north American dish. I never really hear
sloppy Joes in the UK. But it basically just means a loose meat sandwich. And this one is
with pulled pork and a delicious marinade. So these are all the ingredients that you're
going to need for it, but I'll talk you through it quickly. And I'm sorry to any veggies or vegans
watching this one. If you want to fast forward to the curry, that is vegan. I know you might
not want to watch this bit. But you basically, with the pork, you just take off the rind. So
just remove all of the fat. I know a little bit of fat is good, but there was a lot on this joint.
And then just roughly chop it up into about four pieces, and then you marinade it. So just really
simply with some oregano, or oregano, however you want to say it. And then also some paprika. Yeah,
just smoked paprika, and then also a little bit of salt and pepper. And then you kind of want to rub
that marinade into the meat. Flip it over as well, do the other side.
This bit makes me giggle a little bit because I know Matt hates touching food and touching meat,
but he did it. So anyway, that's the marinade. And then you could leave this, if you were
super organized, you could leave this in the fridge overnight to really get all the flavors.
But we left it for 15, 20 minutes and it was very delicious. So you don't have to marinate it for
a long time if you don't want to. And then you make the sauce. So the sauce is basically made up
of some tomato passata, and some ketchup, and some Worcestershire source that I can't say.
Also a little bit of cider vinegar and some soft brown sugar. And some Chipotle paste.
I feel like that's the secret ingredient. And then you just mix up all of that sauce,
and basically just Chuck all of that into the slow cooker. Yeah, so the recipe called for
making a bed of finely chopped red onion, and then laying the marinaded meat on top of that,
then adding the sauce on top and that is pretty much it. So then you just cook it on high for five
hours. And because it is slow cooked for so long, when you do take the meat out, it just falls
apart. You just use a couple of forks to pull it all apart, and you have this delicious pulled
pork, which we had as sloppy Joes. We served it on at brioche buns, and then the recipe called
to make an avocado mash to go in it as well. So that was really nice. It was just mashed
avocado and a little bit of lime. We also added cheese, and then we served it with a
side salad and this was very delicious. Again, this went a long way. This fed us for two days.
We've basically been filming this video for the past two weeks because a lot of
the meals lasted us more than one day, which is great. You know I love to batch cook. So yeah,
I would totally recommend this one. It'd be great for entertaining. Or as I said, at a barbecue.
And next up we have some slow cooked chicken tacos. These again, very nice. I really liked
them. And they're a family friendly one. If your kids like wraps then they might like fajitas or
tacos like this. We have this on Taco Tuesday. So there's everything beautifully laid out.
But again, super simple. All you is chuck some chicken breasts into the slow cooker.
And this one you can either cook on low for six or seven hours or on high for three to four. So
you can decide how much time you have. And we're just putting in a little bit of water,
and also some taco seasoning. Just the one that you can buy in the store. We just bought one
in our supermarket. Just chuck in the taco seasoning, and then you also put in some ranch
dressing. Or you can put ranch seasoning as well. But we've actually used the pizza express salad
dressing that you can get. We just really like that one, and it's like a very ranch dressing.
So just put some of that in. Again, I'll link the recipe down below. And that is literally
it. Just put the lid on. As I said, cook it on low for six to seven hours if you have the time.
This would be a good one, when I was working in an office, it was really nice to put the slow cooker
on before I left for work and then come home to a beautiful smelling house. Dinner is ready to go.
And then all you have to do is shred the chicken. A really good hack is actually, it's a shred
chicken with your whisker. I've seen that on TikTok, and I've tried it before, and it actually
works so, so well. But yeah, shred the chicken and then just get all of the other things that you
want in your tacos. The recipe called to actually put the shredded chicken back into the sauce,
so that when you're actually putting together the taco it's got all of the sauce on it,
and the flavoring. And then you just get your wraps or tortillas, as you normally would.
Put the chicken in, and then add anything else that you would like. We had chopped up avocado.
We had more ranch dressing. But you could add salsa if you want,
a bit of iceberg lettuce, some shredded cabbage, some tomatoes, some salsa, some cheese. Literally
whatever you have. And yeah, as I said, really good one. We had a couple of these and the kids
really enjoyed it, so that's always a win. And next up I wanted to show you how to make
slow cooked baked potatoes. I showed these briefly in my party hacks video, but I wanted
to include them in this because they're perfect for summer to have on the side at a barbecue,
or if you're having friends over. That's why we made them. And very simple, just by some baked
potatoes, give them a wash. And then I've laid out some tinfoil for each potato. And then I'm
just adding on a tiny bit of oil, and then some salt and pepper, or any seasoning that you want.
And then you just want to poke the potatoes with a fork, as you would if you were cooking it in
a microwave or an oven. And then I've just rubbed in all the oil and seasoning and made these little
tinfoil parcels. And that is literally it. You just then put these into the slow cooker,
and you want to cook it on high for five hours. And then after that point you can just check them,
just by cutting one open. And it's that simple. So I had a lot of questions the last time I
showed these. A lot of people asked, but is the skin crispy? And it's not,
because it's been in the slow cooker. But what we did was just fluff them up and then
serve it with any toppings that you want. I was thinking you could actually make such a cute baked
potato station with this. So you could have chili, you could have cheese, we've got sour cream and
chives. We've got bacon bits. You could have lots of different toppings, and then serve it like that
if you're having friends over. And it was great. And next up, I wanted to show you a chickpea and
squash coconut curry. So this is the vegetarian meal that I was telling you about. It may actually
also be vegan. Let's see as we go through, I think it is. But here's everything laid out. And first
off you want to put some onion into your food processor with some chili, some ginger, and also
some garlic. And I don't think you actually need to pre-chop it like we did. You could probably
just stick it all in and blitz it into a paste. And we're using garlic paste for this as well.
But once you have that, you can then put that into your slow cooker. We put it on the frying pan
setting for this to start with, just to release all of the flavors. And you can actually make
this recipe on your hub. It takes 30 minutes on the hub, or three hours in your slow cooker.
Once the paste has been heated on the pan for a little bit, then you can add your spice. It's
turmeric, coriander, cumin, and garam masala. Once you've added in this space, then you can chuck in
your drained chickpeas, and also your chopped up squash. We used about half a chopped up squash,
and then we're also adding in a can of coconut milk, and then also the vegetable stock as well.
And that is it for this stage. Give it a stir, stick the lid on, and then we cooked it, as I
said, for three hours on high. And then all that's left to do is, towards the end of it being ready,
you can chuck in some baby spinach, about 150 grams. Obviously this is great to add extra
nutrients, but it does actually put my kids off. So they didn't massively want to eat this meal,
but it was very delicious. But if you didn't want to make the paste yourself,
or get all the spices, I'm going to level with you. You could totally buy one of those pre-made
curry pastes, and the coconut milk, and chuck it all in with chickpeas and squash. I think
that would still be really nice. And yeah, we served it on brown rice, and we served it with
some naan bread, and it was very delicious. And the last recipe that I wanted to share
with you is stuffed meatballs. And they're stuffed with mozzarella. This is very delicious,
but it's also quite a healthy one because we used Turkey mince rather than beef mince to make this.
So I'll link the recipe down below if you want to check it out, but it's quite simple. First off you
mix together the turkey mince and breadcrumbs. You also put in an egg and half an onion that has been
finely chopped. And you'll want to season it with a good amount of salt and pepper,
and then mix that together really well. Then you just go about making some little meatballs
and push in a little bit of chopped up mozzarella into the center of each meatball.
This is the nice surprise that is so delicious. And then once you have compiled all of your
meatballs, you just roll them on a plate that has flour on top of it, and then you'll want
to brown that. So again, you can either do that on a frying pan, or if you do have the frying
pan setting on your slow cooker, I'm using that. And I should say the recipe that I followed also
said to put some onions into the frying pan to saute when you're browning the meatballs.
So just go ahead and brown the meatballs as best you can, but don't worry if it's not cooked all
the way through. Because when it is on a slow cooker setting, of course they will cook. So
once that is all browned, then you just add in a little bit of vegetable stock or chicken stock,
and then also some chopped tomatoes and some oregano or oregano. And that is it. And then you
just put the lid on, you cook it on low for six hours. Or you can do it on high for four hours.
And then we served it on spaghetti with some garlic bread. This is a nice one. Again,
you can just put on, and then once the kids come home from school and everyone's going crazy,
dinner's already done. You don't have to worry about that. You can help with
homework and you can do all of those other things. So you don't have to serve it on pasta. You could
serve it with something else, or the meatballs could be the main part of the dinner and then
you could have rice on the side. Whatever you want. But this really is the type of food that I
love. Matt was not as impressed with these. He was like, "Oh, a lot of effort for
these." But I really liked them. So again, I'm sure you could pre-buy meatballs and make them
in your slow cooker if you wanted to. You could absolutely do that and make your life
easier. But I just wanted to share this recipe with you. And again, I'll link it down below.
Right, so that's it for this video. I really hope you enjoyed it. Let me know in the
comments below which one was your favorite, and I'll see you in my next one. Bye guys.