Hi, guys. Welcome back to my channel and to another video.
Today, I wanted to share with you five different slow cooker dinner ideas
because we currently don't have an oven. We're doing some renovations and our kitchen has been
knocked out. We're in a temporary one for a few months, and we're relying heavily
on our slow cooker. Every morning, we wake up, put the ingredients in so that we do have dinner
in the evening for our whole family, and we don't get takeaway every single night.
I hope you enjoy these recipes. I would say they're all very easy and family friendly. Our
kids eat these recipes as well. I'll be sure to link them in the description down below,
along with some other slow cooker videos that I've made in the past.
I'll also time stamp this video so that it's easy to find the recipes if you want to skip forward to
the next one or skip back. Hopefully that will make it easier to find everything. Let me know
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on like different meal inspiration and ideas. But with all that said, let me show you the slow
cook recipes we made this week. Tonight for dinner, I'm making chicken stroganoff in the
slow cooker. It's actually the first time I've ever made this recipe, but it looks really easy
and delicious. You serve it on tagliatelle at the end. I'll show you how to make it.
You need a chopped onion. We've actually got a ton of mushrooms. This is a whole pallet,
but it will obviously cook down to nothing. We've got some sour cream, some paprika,
a can of condensed chicken soup, and then 150 mil of chicken stock and four breasts of chicken.
We're at a family of five, so we're each going to have a breast, but my two younger children
will probably share one. Excuse this. I'm actually making a Reel for Instagram as well.
A few people have said that they would like to see my recipes over there as well, so I'm going to
try today and do that. But first off, you need to brown the chicken and soften the onions. Luckily,
this slow cooker has a browning setting on it, so it's really handy. You don't actually have
to get a frying pan dirty and then put it in the slow cooker. You can kind of all do it in this,
which is brilliant, if you're ever like getting a new slow cooker or getting a
slow cooker for the first time. First, I'm just going to put a
little bit of oil in there, and then stick the onions in to soften for a few minutes.
Once the onions are soft, you just stick in the whole chicken breasts to brown.
Perfect. Sorry, it's really loud now. But once it's brown, you basically just chuck
everything else in. The chicken stock is going in.
A whole can of condensed chicken soup. The mushrooms go in and a teaspoon of paprika,
and then a hundred mil of sour cream. I'm going to voice over this next bit, because
between the building work and the noise from the slow cooker, it was just way too much. But yes,
you put all of the ingredients in. And then once you have, you can cook it on low for six hours,
which is what I did because I had time. But if you're short on time, you can also cook it
on high for three hours. And then when you're ready to eat it, you can serve it tagliatelle.
Just make it as you normally would, and then just put it on top. This was such a delicious dinner.
I really, really enjoyed it. The kids liked it too, but they definitely did not eat the
big mushroom chunks. They kind of left them to one side, but it's a great one and it was very
simple to make as well. I'm going to be putting something into the slow cooker for tonight,
and it's called campfire stew. I actually found this on Instagram. Sorry, they're
building work. They're actually drilling up all of the floors, I think. It's really noisy today,
but I actually don't mind when it's noise because I'm like at least things are happening.
They're doing loads of work out there. But anyway, I'm doing thing called campfire
stew. I'll link where I found it down below. Someone recommended that I follow someone
called Taming Twins on Instagram. She does loads of different slow cooker for meals,
and this one is with gammon and my kids love gammon. I think because it's so salty. I think
they're going to really like this. It has gammon in and it also has baked beans. They love both
of those things. I'll show you how I do it. I might voice this bit over because that is
not going to stop. But yeah, let's show you. This is everything that I'm going to need laid out.
I've just chopped up two green peppers, an onion, and got everything together. Kiki is just being
such a good girl with the noise. She doesn't seem to mind at all. She's just chilling out,
eating her chew. What I also love about this recipe is you pretty much just chuck everything
into the slow cooker. It's really nice and easy. As I said, you basically just chuck it all in.
You don't even have to soften or brown anything. I've just put in one finely chopped onion and the
whole gammon joint, two green peppers, which I've chopped up, then a can of chopped tomatoes and
two cans of baked beans, which as I said, my kids love. Then I'm also going to add in a little bit
of garlic puree or you can add fresh garlic, if you have it, then I think two tablespoons
of tomato puree, some cumin. I did two teaspoons. Then I'm also going to add in some smoked paprika.
This was really nice because it gives it that like smokey flavor. And I think I did four teaspoons of
that. I'm also adding in a tiny bit of mild chili powder. But if you don't want spice,
you don't have to add it. And then I'm also adding three tablespoons of Lea & Perrins,
and I'm just going to kind of give it a mix around, and then put it on high for six hours,
I believe. Yeah, you can do six hours on high or eight hours on low. If you're out at work all day,
you can just leave it on low. And then once it is all cooked,
then you kind of shred the gammon and you have this delicious stew, which you can serve on loads
of different things. You can serve it on rice, on couscous, on cauliflower rice. We are having
it with wedges tonight, but you could also have it on like mashed potato as well. It was really
delicious, very Moorish. I really, really liked it. We also had some leftovers from this one.
Hi, guys. It's the weekend now and today I'm going to make a very simple six ingredient chicken
enchilada recipe in the slow cooker. Again, it's a great one because you just basically
chuck everything in. And then later on, I'll just shred the chicken and you can put it into fajita
wraps. You can put it into enchiladas or tacos or whatever you really want. You can serve it with
avocado and lime and cheese and stuff later on. But it's just great to like have that base.
I'm pretty sure the kids will like this as well. I'll show you the ingredients that go into
it. Hopefully you can see this. We've got some chicken. We've got two chopped onions, some chili
powder, some cumin, and garlic seasoning as well, and some passata, or you can also use tomato sauce
as well. This recipe is definitely of the easiest in the whole video. It's just six ingredients,
and you basically just chuck it into the slow cooker. In goes two finely chopped onions,
a can of tomato passata or tomato sauce. I'm also adding in two teaspoons of cumin powder.
I'm adding in a teaspoon of garlic powder. This one has herbs in it as well.
And then you can also add some chili powder if you did want to have a little bit of kick
in it. Just give that a little stir and then just put in your chicken. You can use breasts,
or you can use thighs. Either one will work, because, again, you kind of shred it at the end.
And then I'm just going to cook it on high for three to four hours. I'm going to put it on for
three and a half hours and just kind of like check it, but you can also do it on low for six hours.
And that is literally it. It smells delicious. And as I said, you could use this in fajitas, tacos,
burrito bowls. You could add some black beans, some rice.
For us tonight, we're going to have little chicken fajitas. We're going to add some avocados,
some cheese, some lime juice as well and have like mini ones. And that is pretty much it. Such a good
one and just very simple to just chuck it all in. Tonight we're making a veggie lasagna in the slow
cooker. You don't actually have to brown anything. You pretty much blend up all the ingredients,
layer it all in the slow cooker, and it takes just three hours to make.
I'll show you what goes into it. We've got three courgettes which I have chopped up,
got a whole pallet of mushrooms. It was 250 grams. We've got one kg of passata with basil. We've got
some walnuts. We need 150 grams of that. We've got some pesto, some garlic powder, some tomato puree.
And then for the white sauce, we're literally just using ricotta cheese, which is nice and easy.
And then, of course, we've got lasagna sheets and grated mozzarella for the layers and on
top as well. I'm hoping it all fits into this. This is the biggest food processor that I have,
but you pretty much put most of the ingredients in this, blend it up just for a short amount of
time so it's like a nice... You don't want it to be like too pureed. Just blend it quickly
and then layer it all in the slow cooker. I'm excited for this one because sometimes we struggle
to find good veggie options for the slow cooker. This is like really my kind of food. I love
lasagna. Let's see if I fit it all in. Okay. In the end, I did actually have to do this
in two halves because I couldn't fit everything into the food processor. But anyway, in goes
the mushrooms, the courgette, the tomato sauce, the tomato puree, the walnuts as well,
which is a really nice part of it that kind of gives it a little bit of crunch. Then you also
add the garlic seasoning, some green pesto, and then some oregano or oregano, however you say it,
and then you kind of quickly blend it. I felt like I blended it a little bit too much.
I think I would actually prefer it maybe with a little bit more chunk to it. [Inaudible 00:11:01]
is good for kids. They won't kind of sense all the veggies that are actually in this, but then
you just layer it in your slow cooker. You want to put a little bit of the sauce on the bottom
just to make sure that that pasta will cook okay. Then you put the pasta that lasagna sheet is on,
then layer it with ricotta and a little bit of mozzarella. That is pretty much
it. Then you just carry on layering up. I think I ended up doing four layers in total.
More sauce, more lasagna, ricotta, and then mozzarella. Another really good option
if you didn't want to do ricotta cheese is cottage cheese. That works really nicely as like a white
sauce in lasagna. I find it so much better than like the, how do you say it, bechamel sauce,
because that can be quite heavy. Sometimes it's quite nice that it's a little bit light. Once
you've layered it all up, that is pretty much it. And then you can actually cook this on low
for five to six hours, or I'm actually cooking it on high for three hours. Then it should look like
this. It doesn't have like that kind of brown crispy top on it obviously because it is in the
slow cooker, but it is all cooked. The pasta is nice and soft, and we served it with some salad
and then also some garlic bread, which we actually made in our air fryer. We're getting quite
resourceful not having an oven. It actually cooked fine in the air fryer. And that is pretty much it.
The last recipe that I wanted to share with you guys is slow cooker South Indian curry. This is so
delicious. There's loads of flavor in it because of all the spices, which you'll see in a sec.
Curry is my youngest son's favorite food. He'd have it every night if he could,
and he also loves rice as well. On the night that we had this, my husband Matt actually
put it all into the slow cooker. I'll be sure to link this recipe in the description down below if
you want to try it out. It was really delicious. But first off, he's just going to finely chop up
an onion, and then also chop up about 300 grams of ripe tomatoes. And then you basically put a little
bit of olive oil, the onion, the tomatoes, and all the spices into the slow cooker. In this dish,
there are cloves, Garam masala, turmeric, paprika, chili powder, a cinnamon stick,
cardamon pods, and even dried curry leaves. A ton of spice going in with the tomatoes and the
onions and all the chicken, which has been diced up. And then you leave that on high.
Obviously give it a good mix round, but you put it on high for about three and a half hours.
And then after three and a half hours, the chicken is all cooked. And then you add in
some coconut milk to the mixture. You can see it's all cooked down. There's a bit of a sauce now.
You add in about a hundred mil of coconut milk, and then you leave that to cook for another half
an hour on high. Tonight, to make our lives easy, we're actually using microwavable rice,
and we're also going to serve it with chapatis. We kind of like toasted them a bit I think just
in a frying pan and served it like this with coriander on top and a little bit of lime.
It was a really delicious dinner that the whole family liked. That is it for this video. I really
hope you enjoyed it. Let me know in the comments below which recipe was your favorite and what is
your favorite thing to make in the slow cooker because I also definitely need ideas for the
next few months. But anyway, thanks again and I'll see you in my next one. Bye, guys.