The crockpot is an appliance for the kitchen that cooks food in a slow manner. It can help the owner by cutting down the time needed for cooking. It is a good tool for those who are beginners in cooking because you just have to put the ingredients inside the pot and cook it. The crockpot comes with a booklet of some of the best crockpot recipes you can follow. Most of the best crockpot recipes are easy to make. Some of them include crockpot apricot chicken and sour cream and bacon chicken.
1. Crockpot Apricot Chicken - This is one of the best crockpot recipes for chicken. It is a simple dish with four ingredients. You can serve this dish on top of some pasta or rice. The following are the ingredients:
1. six pieces of frozen boneless and skinless breasts of chicken
2. one package of the mix for onion soup
3. one half cup of salad dressing
4. one cup of preserved apricots or apricot jam
5. one third cup of chicken stock
6. one teaspoon of dried basil or thyme
7. one eight teaspoon of pepper
Cooking Procedure:
a. The first step in making one of the best crockpot recipes is arranging the chicken in the four quart cooker. Then put the other ingredients in a bowl and mix it altogether. Pour the mixture on the chicken and give it a stir. Put the crockpot's lid and press the low button to start the cooking process. The dish will be cooked for eight hours. The chicken will then be tender and ready for serving. This recipe can be consumed by six persons.
2. Sour Cream and Bacon Chicken - This is one of the best crockpot recipes for bacon and chicken. You wrap the bacon around each piece of chicken breast and cook it with some cream. The cooking time for this dish is about eight hours.
Ingredients:
1. eight slices of bacon
2. eight pieces of chicken breasts without the skin
3. two cans of cream of mushroom soup with the roasted garlic variation
4. one cup of sour cream
5. one half cup of flour
Cooking Procedure:
a. Wrap each chicken with a bacon and put in the four quart pot.. In another bowl blend the soup, flour and cream together. You can use a whisk to mix it well. Put it on the chicken inside the pot. Put the cover and press the low button for the crockpot tos tart. This dish can be served in eight hours.
3. One of the best crockpot recipes for vegetarians is the three bean cassoulet. This dish has no meat at all so it is very low in calories as well.
Ingredients:
1. one cup of lima beans, the dried variant
2. one cup of garbanzo beans, dried variant
3. four and a half cups of water
4. sixteen ounces of small carrots
5. one onion
6. three garlic cloves
7. one tablespoon of dried parsley
8. one teaspoon of dried basil
9. one half teaspoon of dried thyme
10. one half teaspoon of salt
11. one eight teaspoon of white pepper
12. one bay leaf
13. one can of chopped tomatoes
14. two tablespoons of tomato paste
Cooking Procedure:
a. Put the beans in a large bowl with cold water then put it in a big pot and let it boil for one minute then set it aside for one hour.
b. Drain the beans and put them in the four quart cooker with the water,chopped onions, herbs and garlic. Set aside the tomatoes and the salt.
c. Put the crockpot's lid and crank up the heat to high just for thirty minutes. Then lower down the heat until it gets cooked for nine hours. After nine hours of slow cooking put the tomatoes, salt and the paste and wait for one more hour.
d. Take out the bay leaf then serve this dish hot.
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