Let the slow cooker do all the work while you’re out, and have a meal ready for when you get home
I was given a slow cooker for Christmas, but haven’t used it yet – any advice for a complete novice?
Slow cookers aren’t exactly sexy, but what they lack in aesthetics, they more than make up for in meal prepping and problem-solving. Simply chuck everything in there, turn it on and a few hours later dinner is effortlessly served. No fuss, just delicious meals.
But there are a few basic slow cooker rules that you need to abide by. First, the liquid: unlike the oven or hob, a slow cooker doesn’t lose as much liquid through evaporation, so even if a dish looks as if it’s not saucy enough, trust me, it very probably is, in which case adding a load of extra stock or water will just leave you with soup, which is ideal only if you’re actually making soup. You just have to learn to trust the process.
Poppy O’Toole is the author of The Actually Delicious Slow Cooker Cookbook, published by Bloomsbury at £20. To order a copy for £18, visit guardianbookshop.com Continue reading…
http://dlvr.it/THln8f
