For crockpotting with no extra steps:
Add extra liquid (stock, wine, water etc) and throw your rice or pasta in uncooked. Ground beef needs to be precooked so cook a butt load of ground beef and freeze in portions that can be chucked into the crock.
My fave crockpot cook book is
Not Your Mother's Slow Cooker Cookbook by Beth Hensperger and Julie Kaufmann.
That being said, many of them are multi step recipes so:
Here are some tried and true mother approved recipes:
Torilla casserole:
package of cream cheese cubed
1 cup sour cream
1 can green chilies and tomato
1 can of mushrooms and stems
1 can black beans
1 can corn
1/2 an onion diced
12 flour tortillas each cut into 12 wedges (I just stack them and cut them all at once)
3 to 4 cups cubed chicken breast
1 7 oz jar salsa
1 1/2 cups grated cheddar cheese
1/2 cup grated cheddar cheese
1 tsp cumin
2 tsp chili powder
1/2 tbsp garlic powder
Throw everything into the crockpot and cook on low for 6-8 hours.
Gently stir and sprinkle with remaining 1/2 cup of cheese. Cover and cok on low for 15-30 min. (This step is totally optional, if you are pressed for time, just let people sprinkle cheese on their own portions.)
Sweet Aromatic Chicken and rice:
1 cup coconut milk
2 cup chicken stock
8 chicken thighs
1/4 cup brown sugar
2 tbsp soy sauce
1 tbsp vinegar
1/8 tsp ground cloves
1/4 tsp ginger
3 garlic cloves minced
1/2 onion diced
2 cups rice, uncooked
Grease crock pot
pour in liquid, and then lay thighs down and put everything else on top.
Cover. Cook on Low 9-10 hours, high for 6 hours.
Barbecued chicken:
2 lbs. chicken pieces (I like thighs)
1/4 cup flour
1 1/2 cups bbq sauce
2 cups stock (or 1 1/2 cup stock, 1/2 cup wine)
1/2 onion cut into big petals
2 garlic cloves minced
green pepper, yellow pepper (whatever you've got)
zucchini cut nice and thick
stick chicken in a bowl and throw in the flour. Toss the chicken into the flour and transfer to slow cooker.
Put everything else on top of chicken.
Cover. Cook on low 5 hours.
Spanish rice:
2 lbs ground beef (browned)
2 onions, diced
4 cloves garlic, minced
green peppers, chopped
28 oz can tomatoes
8 oz can tomato sauce
1 1/2 cups vegetable stock
2 1/2 tsp chili powder
2 tsp salt
2 tsp worcestershire sauce
1 1/2 cups rice, uncooked
Combine all ing. Cover. Cook on Low 9-10 hours, or high for 6 hours.
I have a million... but meh... I mostly use mine for soups and stews. One pot meal type dishes.
