Crockpot Recipes

Submitted by Janice Trevail  of Owl's Ridge

1 1/2 lbs. ground beef
1 onion, minced
2 stalks celery, minced
1 12 oz bottle chili sauce
2 tablespoons brown sugar
1 tablespoon Worcestershire sauce
1 teaspoon salt (I usually omit this)
2 tablespoons sweet pickle relish
1/8 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper

Brown beef with onion and celery until the meat loses its pink color. Drain off fat. Combine meat with remaining ingredients in crock pot. Cover and cook on low for 3-4 hours (or you can simmer this in a pot on the stove).  Spoon over toasted buns.  Hints: You can do the "browning" ahead of time and refrigerate that mixture until you're ready to throw it in the crock pot!  You can make several batches of sloppy joes and freeze them for future use!!

Place roast beef or pork roast in crock pot and cook on high for 3-4 hours or until "fallin' apart done".  Drain well, then pull into shreds with two forks.  Return meat to crock pot and stir in the bbq sauce.  Heat this mixture on low until it's heated through.  Serve on fresh hard rolls!

Sauce for BBQ Beef/Pork (make it while the meat is cooking):

In a saucepan stir together 1/2 cup brown sugar, 1/2 cup ketchup, 2 tbsp. prepared mustard, 1 tbsp. cider vinegar, and 2 squirts worcestershire sauce. Cook over medium heat until thoroughly heated; let sit until meat is done

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The following is the original crock pot file I received, with some extra recipes added as I received them:

Some basic hints: take recipes that call for cooking in pot on the stove and just the put them in the crockpot and let them cook all day.  You can use it to make quick beef stroganoff. Put stew beef and onions in, add a packet of french onion soup mix and a can of cream of mushroom soup. Let it cook all day on low. Just before serving time, cook noodles and steam a vegetable and your ready for supper. You can use it to simmer homemade spaghetti sauce all day, cook pork chops in or cook and entire beef roast with potatoes and vegetables. Just be sure and put the potatoes and vegetables (I usually use carrots) in the bottom, then put the meat on top. Depending on the type of meat, some need lots of liquid added, others don't need as much. Enjoy!

I've got a great chili recipe for the crockpot. Brown 1 lb. of lean ground beef, add to crockpot.
Add one can of red kidney beans, can of tomato soup, can of diced tomatoes, 1 tsp. chili powder,
1 tsp. of sugar, 1 tsp. of prepared mustard. Cut up an onion and a green pepper and throw it in the pot. Mix real well and set on low for about 6 hours Tastes real good! If you like it hot add more chili powder.

I've got a great recipe for barbecue beef sandwiches - cut up a round steak or small roast,
depending on how many you are feeding. Add that to the crock pot with a 16 oz. jar of your
favorite barbecue sauce, and that's it! At the end of the day the meat is shredded, and it's great to
put on deli rolls. I do this a lot when we have a house full of company, but are too busy too cook all day.

Here's a Beef In Beer recipe that is so easy to make and tastes so good. Buy yourself a 4 or 5 lbs. roast of beef. Doesn't have to be a really tender cut because once it's cook it will fall apart for you. In a bowl mix together 1 bottle of beer (Labatt's Blue or Molson's tastes best) 1 1/4 cup of ketchup and 1/2 cup of brown sugar. Stir well. Put your beef in the crock pot and pour mixture over it. Cook for about 4-5 hours on high heat, 6-7 hours on low heat. Turn meat over once while cooking. This can be served with egg noodles, a Caesar salad and fresh
crusty bread. It tastes wonderful and there is no beer taste. Enjoy!!

Most recipes can be made low fat by draining the meats (red) before adding the balance of the ingredient. Also try using extra lean cuts of beef and substitute skinned chicken and turkey when ever possible. Avoid adding any extra fat such as cheeses, butter, egg yolks, etc. I am currently watching my cholesterol level and adding the good and leaving out the bad. Here is one low fat recipe I use. Place a turkey breast(skinned) in the crockpot and use water to simmer for 3 hours on low, drain fat and water then add 1 can of campbell's low salt cream of mushroom soup, with 4 peeled and cut up carrots, use 1 can water to simmer until carrots are near done add more mushrooms, quick rice or use your imagination and after the rice is done serve's four.
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Mexican Style Short Ribs - Yield: 6 servings

4 lb Beef short ribs
10 1/2 oz Beef consomme
1 1/4 oz Taco seasoning mix
  1/4 c  Green pepper, chopped

In large skillet brown ribs; pour off excess fat.  Mix beef consomme with dry taco mix; add green pepper.  In crock pot, pour sauce over ribs.  Cover and cook on low for 6 - 8 hours.
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"All-Day Crockpot Stew" -- Start with about a pound of stew beef, chopped up into bite-sized pieces. Add 3 potatoes, chopped into bite-sized pieces, about 6 carrots, cleaned and chopped into chunks, two large onions, diced (but not too small), a T of worchestershire sauce, a sprinkling of garlic powder and an envelope of brown gravy mix (Durkee). I added 4 cups of water, put this sucker on high, and left. 10 hours later, it was done, nice brown sauce, but a little thin. I added my usual thickener of two T of cornstarch dissolved in
1/8 cup water, and let it stand for a little still on high. Voila! Perfect beef stew. I was going to add some green beans, but well, stuff happens. It was served with fresh bread, and enjoyed by all, including the cats, who got to lick the bowls clean."
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