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Slow Cooker Mexican Chicken (for tacos)

11/19/2013

Theres a pattern here - this one take no time to prepare either! It takes about 5 mins to open packets and pour them into the slow cooker!

Many thanks to my friend Bindy for this pearl of a recipe (which I've tweaked slightly!)!

2-3 chicken breasts
2 x 300g jar salsa (or the equivalent homemade salsa) – you could also replace 1 jar with 400g tin of crushed tomatoes
1 sachet taco seasoning
1 x 400g tin of red kidney beans, drained
1 x 200g tin corn kernels
½ bunch fresh coriander

Place the chicken breasts in the base of your slow cooker. Pour salsa and taco seasoning over the chicken, and stir until seasoning combined. Make sure that the chicken breasts are covered bottom and top by the salsa. If your breasts are thick, you may need to use a rolling pin or a mallet to flatten them slightly so they are covered
Cook in slow cooker on low for approx. 8hrs.
15 mins before serving, using a fork, shred the chicken, it should easily fall apart. Then add the kidney beans, corn, coriander and continue cooking on Low for 15 mins.
Serve with tortillas, guacamole, sour cream and fresh greens

Serves 4

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Slow Cooker – Beef with mushrooms, leek and red wine

11/19/2013

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Heres something I threw together last night, and it came out AMAZING! Thought Id better write it down before I forgot what I did! Would be rude not to share!

Super quick and easy, just throw in what you want. Prob took me about 15 mins prep time.

Meat

500g steak, roughly diced ((the cheaper the cut the better)
½ 1/2 cup plain flour
Ground pepper (i used pepper steak seasoning)
Salt (I used chicken salt)
2 tsp gravox
2 tbs olive oil

Sauce

1 cup red wine
3/4 cup water
Generous dash wostershire sauce
Packet French onion soup mix (home brand rocks!)
2 tbs gravox
Bout 5 good squirts of BBQ sauce
Few shakes chilli powder
Few tablespoons flour or cornflour (to thicken)

Veggies

Leek
10-12 button mushrooms, sliced thickly
2-3 Carrots, roughly chopped
Handful green beans
Handful fresh parsley
2-3 Potatoes, roughly chopped (optional)
Any other veggies you like!

Combine about half a cup of plain flour with ground pepper, chicken salt and approx 2 tsp of gravox in a large zip lock freezer bag.
Add cubed meat to the seasoning in the freezer bag, and shake to coat thoroughly.
Sear beef quickly in oil in a heavy frying pan to seal in the juices. Just seal the meat, Do NOT cook it through.
Place meat in a medium to large slow cooker
Lightly fry the leek in the same frypan with the same olive oil, and add to slow cooker
Combine red wine, water, wostershire sauce, French onion soup mix, additional gravox, bbq sauce, chilli powder and additional flour in the same frypan over low heat till thickened. Stir well to break down the flour (although really, the lumps don’t matter, they disappear in the cooking!) Add more or less of each ingredient as per your taste. Sauce should have some thickness, but easily stirred. Add more water if required. Add sauce to slow cooker.
Add veggies to slow cooker. Stir to coat all ingredients. Cook on low for 7-8hrs.
Approx 30 mins prior to serving, check the thickness of your stew. If you want to thicken it, add 1-2 tbs of cornflour, stir through, and allow 30 mins to thicken.
Serve on its own, or on a bed of mashed potato, or cauliflower mash
ENJOY!!!

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Slow Cooker Apple Layer Porridge

11/19/2013

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This is such a quick and simple way to prepare a yummy breaky the night before. It seriously takes about 5 minutes to prepare, and you wake up to the aroma of freshly stewed apples..mmmm....

2-3 apples, roughly chopped (skin on is fine)
1 ½ tsp cinnamon
1-2 tsp brown sugar (to taste)
1 cup rolled oats (use regular oats, not quick oats)
2 cups water

Throw apples in bottom of a medium to large slow cooker.
Sprinkle cinnamon and sugar over the apples
Pour the oats evenly over the apples (do NOT stir)
Pour the water evenly over the porridge, again do NOT stir - this keeps the layered structure
Cook in slow cooker on LOW for approx. 8hrs. Serve hot first thing in the morning!

Serves 2.

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Slow Cooker Mexican Chicken (for tacos)

Slow Cooker – Beef with mushrooms, leek and red wine

Slow Cooker Apple Layer Porridge

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