slow cooker recipes

Peppered Steak with Whisky Sauce

Peppered Steak with Whisky Sauce excerpted from Comfort in One: Simple, joyful one pot meals – The Sunday Times Bestseller by Hari Beavis. Photography by Dan Jones.

Comfort in One: Simple, joyful one pot meals - The Sunday Times Bestseller by Hari Beavis

‘Gen Z’s new favourite chef’
The Times

Dive into a world of easy comfort food with the latest cookbook from Sunday Times bestselling author Hari Beavis.

Renowned for her down-to-earth approach and irresistible flavours, Hari brings you a collection of heart-warming meals that require just one pan, pot, tray or tin.

Each dish comes with handy alternative ingredient suggestions, allowing you to adapt to what’s already in your store cupboard and tailor your meals to any craving or dietary preference. From speedy suppers to slow-cooked comfort classics, you’ll find inspiration for every mood and occasion.

Recipes include:

Green Goddess Winter Pie – a nourishing, flaky-crusted delight
Rosé Wine Prawn Pasta – effortless elegance in one pan
Chorizo and Manchego Red Pepper Traybake – bold flavours with zero fuss
Slow Cooker Birria Tacos – tender, melt-in-the-mouth goodness
Garlic Butter, Lemon Chicken Orzo – creamy and comforting in a single pot
Pumpkin Risotto with Bacon and Walnut Crunch – seasonal indulgence at its best
Creamy Salmon Salad with Dill and Chive Dressing – a light yet satisfying bowl
Mozzarella, Peach and Prosciutto Salad – sweet, salty perfection
Lemon, Olive Oil and Thyme Cake – tangy and aromatic, all in one tin

With 90 soul-soothing recipes that champion simplicity and flavour, this cookbook invites you to relax, dig in, and discover how easy it is to whip up truly comforting meals. Let Hari Beavis guide you to your new favourite dish – one pot at a time. (more…)

Cioppino

Cioppino excerpted from Around the World in Your Slow Cooker: Global-Inspired, Family-Friendly Recipes by Victoria Shearer. Photography by Candice Bell.

Around the World in Your Slow Cooker: Global-Inspired, Family-Friendly Recipes by Victoria Shearer

People have braised meat to get mouthwatering meals for centuries. And in today’s busy society, there is nothing better than coming home from work and dinner is already done. Perfect for those busy days, Around the World in Your Slow Cooker joins the ease of crock pot, slow cooker, Dutch oven, or Instant Pot cooking with worldwide culinary tastes for family dinner, Sunday football watch parties, card night, or a romantic dinner for two.

Around the World in Your Slow Cooker features 85 delectable recipes from around the world including Beef and Onion Potpie from Africa, Russian Beef Stew, Stuffed Sweet Onions from Cuba, Stuffed Grape Leaves with Lemon Sauce from Greece, Chicken Marengo from Italy, Black-eyed Peas with Tomatoes, Mushroom, and Onions from India, Beef Penang Curry from Thailand and so much more! Your family’s tastebuds won’t know what hit them, and it’s a great way to introduce new flavours! If you love to taste new cuisines or have an adventurous palette, Around the World in Your Slow Cooker is the book you need to create masterpiece mouthwatering meals.

Around the World in Your Slow Cooker: Global-Inspired, Family-Friendly Recipes by Victoria Shearer is available at Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk and Indigo.ca.

Cioppino

The word “cioppino” comes from the Ligurian language’s “ciuppin,” which is the name of a classic seafood soup from the Italian region of Liguria. Flavoured with garlic, herbs, and a tomato-wine sauce, it was similar in flavor to today’s American version of cioppino but with less tomato. Italian-Americans who fished off of Meiggs’ Wharf in San Francisco in the late 1800s are credited with developing present- day cioppino. Legend has it that when a fisherman came back empty-handed, he walked around the wharf asking the other more fortunate fishermen to “chip in, chip in” and share some of their catch. Cioppino is a combination of fish, shrimp, and shellfish with fresh tomatoes in a wine sauce.

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Chicken, Kale & Feta Dumplings with Sicilian Olives

Chicken, Kale & Feta Dumplings with Sicilian Olives, Slow Victories: A Food Lover’s Guide to Slow Cooker Glory by Katrina Meynink. Photography by Katrina Meynink, Kait Barker.

Slow Victories

Slow Victories removes the angst from the dinner rut with creative ways to use slow cookers for surprising results. It throws off the idea that cookbooks directed by convenience are necessarily virtuous or bland, instead of delivering ideas for across the week that readers may not have associated with this indispensable kitchen appliance. (And in doing so, does away with the antiquated view that slow cookers are exclusively for time-poor or lazy cooks.)

Mother of three Katrina Meynink embraces the chaos and sometimes hilarity of life with a line-up of 90-plus recipes that suit in all the moments, with chapters dedicated, individually, to grains, soups, condiments, batch cooking, vegetables, weekend cooking, sweets, fancy things, and the dreaded end-of-week what’s-for-dinner-dilemma—so-called Fragile Fridays at her house. Highlights are hard to pick and include: Spiced lamb burghul; Old school tomato soup; Fenugreek cauliflower curry; Wild rice with mushrooms, rosemary and cranberries; Strawberry and pink peppercorn crumble bars; and Yuzu lemon pudding with lemon crumble.

Slow Victories also offers advice on stocking pantries and fridges for slow cooking greatness, and insider tips on hacks that are a further reminder of how the slow cooker can be every food lover’s friend. Because it’s not about getting out of the kitchen, it is about using time there efficiently and with maximum creativity and flavour. (more…)