Crock Pot Sweet and Sour Chicken

4 chicken breasts
¾ cup water
¾ cup ketchup
½ cup sugar
2 Tbs. vinegar
2 Tbs. Worcestershire sauce
4 Tbs. soy sauce
 
Place chicken breasts in crock pot.  Combine other ingredients and pour over chicken.  Cook on high for 5 hours or on low for 8 to 10 hours. Serve with rice.

-Sarah

Crock Pot Beef Stew

1 ½ lb. lean beef cubed
2 tsp. salt
½ tsp. basil leaf
¼ tsp. pepper
2 stalks celery chopped
1 cup or more chopped baby carrots
1 small onion chopped
1 Can tomato soup
½ can water 1 can Cream of Mushroom Soup
3 potatoes cubed

Place beef in crock pot, sprinkle with the three seasonings. Top with carrots, celery and onion. Combine soup and water and pour over. Cover and bake on low all day. Add potatoes for the last three hours of cooking, or else they will be too soft.


-Sarah

Chicken in a Pot

(from my Crock Pot instruction booklet)

2 carrots, sliced

2 onions, sliced (or I use frozen chopped onions)

2 stalks celery, cut into 1-inch pieces

1 whole broiler/fryer chicken, 2 to 3-pound

1 teaspoon salt

1/2 teaspoon ground black pepper

1/2 cup water, chicken broth

1/2 teaspoon dried basil

Put carrots, onion and celery in bottom of slow cooker. Place whole chicken on top of vegetables. Sprinkle with salt and pepper and add liquid over top. Sprinkle basil over top. Cover and cook on low 8 to 10 hours (or on high 3 1/2 to 5 hours, using one cup of water). Remove chicken and vegetables with spatula.

-Lindsay

Chicken Alfredo Lasagna in a Crock Pot

(an easy Sunday meal from 101 More Things To Do with a Slow Cooker)

12 lasagna noodles, uncooked

2 jars (16 oz each) Alfredo sauce

1/3 cup water

1 1/2 cups chicken, cooked and diced

1 carton (16 oz) ricotta or cottage cheese

2 cups grated mozzarella cheese

Break 4 noodles to fit in the bottom of greased 6 to 7 quart slow cooker. Layer a third of Alfredo sauce, half of water, and half of chicken over noodles. Spread half of ricotta or cottage cheese and sprinkle a third of mozzarella over meat layer. Add another layer of noodles. Layer a third of Alfredo sauce, remaining chicken, water, and ricotta or cottage cheese. Sprinkle second third of mozzarella. Layer remaining noodles, sauce, and mozzarella. Cover and cook on low heat 4-5 hours. Do not cook more than 5 hours. Makes 10-12 servings. (I often half the recipe for our little family).

-Lindsay

Kristi's Pot Roast

1 pot roast 1-3 cloves of garlic
1 packet of Italian Good Seasoning Dressing
1 packet of Au Jus seasoning
2 teaspoons beef bouillon
water

Cut up cloves and insert cloves of garlic into roast. Salt and pepper roast and brown in oil on all sides. Place roast in crock-pot with seasoning packets and bouillon, cover with water. Cook on high for 6-8 hours or until shreds easily.
Remove roast, shred meat and return to juices. Serve on rolls and dip in juices.
Great Sunday meal!

-Kristi

Favorite Pork Tenderloin

RUB: 

            2 tsp. salt

½ tsp. black pepper

½ tsp. chili powder

1 tsp. ground cumin

1 tsp. cinnamon

Mix together and coat tenderloin (2 ½ lbs meat)

PREP & BROWN:  2 Tbs. olive oil in oven-proof skillet over med-hi heat until just beginning to smoke. Brown pork, turning about 4 minutes total. Leave pork in skillet.

GLAZE:

            1 C. packed brown sugar

            2 Tbs. finely chopped garlic
            1 Tbs. Tabasco (I have never used the Tabasco. I usually just put
            1 Tbs. vinegar and about 1/8 tsp. cayenne).

Stir together and coat on top of tenderloin. Roast in middle of oven at 350 degrees until meat thermometer inserted diagonally registers 145 degrees. About 20 min. Let pork stand at room temp for 10 minutes until it reaches 155 degrees.  

I have also prepared this meal in the crock pot. I use a larger cut of meat and do all the steps through glazing. Then I just put it in the crock pot, on low, for four or more hours or on high for up to four hours.

Making it the crock pot way gets the meat really tender and almost shread-able for sandwiches or pitas. I use the extra juices to pour over brown rice as a side dish.

The best part about this meal is that your house smells wonderful even after only doing the first step and gets even better as it cooks! You will love it!

-Steph