Slow Cooker
Top 5 New Slow Cooker Recipes

Layers of Love Lasagna  

Ingredients:

• 1 lb. ground beef or ground turkey (use lean meat or you will have a lot of grease in your finished dish)
• 1 can (14.5 oz.) diced tomatoes (leave out if your children don't like tomatoes)
• 1 small onion, finely chopped 
• 2 clove garlic, minced 
• 9 lasagna sheets
• 28 oz. tomato sauce 
• 16 oz. fat-free cottage cheese or ricotta cheese
• 3 C shredded mozzarella cheese 
• ¼ C grated Parmesan cheese 

Instructions:

1. Combine first four ingredients in large skillet, preferably cast iron, over medium-high heat. Cook until meat is no longer pink, 8 to 10 minutes.
2. Coat slow cooker (four-quart minimum) with cooking spray. Lay noodle sheets, side-by-side, in bottom of cooker. Top with one-third each of the tomato sauce, cottage or ricotta cheese, beef mixture, and mozzarella. Repeat layers until you run out of ingredients, or you reach top of slow cooker, ending with mozzarella. Sprinkle Parmesan on top.
3. Cover and cook on low 5 to 6 hours, or until lasagna is cooked through and cheese is bubbly.

Delicious 5-Ingredient Chicken

Ingredients:

• 1 (2 to 3 pound) whole chicken
• Salt and pepper to taste
• 1 teaspoon paprika (or other seasoning of your choice)
• 2 T butter

Instructions:

1. Form three pieces of aluminum foil into 3 to 4 inch balls, and place them in the bottom of the slow cooker.
2. Rinse the chicken, inside and out, under cold running water. Pat dry with paper towels. Season with salt, pepper and paprika.  Place the butter inside the chicken cavity. Place the chicken in the slow cooker on top of the crumbled aluminum foil.
3. Set the slow cooker to high for 1 hour, then reduce to low for 6 to 8 hours, or until the chicken juices run clear.

Super Easy BBQ Pork

Ingredients:

• 1 (14 ounce) can beef broth (try to get the kind with no MSG)
• 3 pounds boneless pork ribs
• 1 (18 ounce) bottle barbeque sauce

Instructions:

1. Pour beef broth into slow cooker and add pork ribs. Cook on high for 4 hours, or until meat shreds easily. Remove meat, and shred with two forks. This will require a little elbow grease!
2. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Place the shredded pork in a glass baking dish, Dutch oven, or cast iron skillet, and stir in barbeque sauce.
3. Bake in the preheated oven for 30 minutes, or until heated through.

Slow Cooker Apple Crispy

Ingredients:

Directions:

1. Mix together first six topping ingredients.   Cut butter into the mixture using knife and fork or pastry cutter.  Mixture should be coarse.  Stir in walnuts and set aside.
2. Begin mixing filling ingredients.  Combine white sugar, cornstarch, ginger, and cinnamon.
3. Place the apples in a slow cooker, stir in the cornstarch mixture; toss with lemon juice. Sprinkle topping over apple mixture.
4. Cover and cook on high for 2 hours or low for 4 hours, until apples are tender.
5. At the end of the cooking time, remove slow cooker lid partially, about 1 hour, to crisp the topping.

Slow Cooker Chicken and Easy Dumplings

Ingredients:

• 6 skinless, boneless chicken breast halves cut into strips
• 2 tablespoons butter
• 2 (10.75 ounce) cans condensed cream of chicken soup
• 1 onion, finely diced (optional)
• 1 cup baby carrots or diced carrots (optional)
• 1 cup frozen peas (optional)
• 1 16.3 oz. package of refrigerated biscuits

Directions:

1. Place the carrots and peas on the bottom of the slow cooker.  Add chicken, butter, soup, and onion and cover with water.
2. Place lid on slow cooker and cook on high for 5 to 6 hours.  
3. 1 to 2 hours before serving, open can of biscuits and tear each biscuit into four pieces. Place dough on top of mixture in slow cooker.  Cover and cook for 1 to 2 hours or until dough is cooked through.

Recipes compiled by iMOM Staff.

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