Crockpot Creations

Since my neighbor enlisted me to help her with a crockpot cooking class for our ward Relief Society, I decided I better put some of my favorite crockpot recipes on my blog. Some of these may be reprints, but organized in a better place.


Famous Corn Fest Chili
2 lbs. lean ground beef
2 medium onions, chopped
1 clove garlic,minced
1 can stewed tomatoes
2 Cups Tomato Juice
1 can tomato paste
2 Tbls. Chili Powder
1 teas. Worcestershire sauce
2 cans Red Kidney Beans
2 cans Black Beans
2 Tbls. Sugar
1 bag grandpa Holts corn or frozen corn
Salt & Pepper to taste
Brown beef, rinse and drain. Put in Crock pot. Add rest of ingredients except Corn. Cook on High one hour, then turn to low for 6 hours. 8 servings.


Grandma Hurley’s Beef Stew
2 lbs. stew meat
4-5 potatoes, diced
1 bag baby carrots sliced thick
1 onion
1 Can chicken broth
1 Can beef broth
2 Beef gravy mixes
Dip stew meat in seasoned flour and brown in frying on stove. Put in bottom of crock-pot, add chicken broth and beef broth. Simmer for 2 hours on high. Then add potatoes, carrots and onions. Simmer for 2 -4 more hours on high. When tender add Beef gravy mixes.

Easy Crockpot Lasagna
2 lb. ground beef
1 lg.onion
1 large Prego spaghetti sauce (Costco size)
½ lb. uncooked lasagna noodles (Broken up)
12 oz. container cottage cheese
8 oz. shredded mozzarella cheese
1/3 Cup grated parmesan cheese
1/2 C. water
Brown ground beef. Drain fat and rinse add onion, and Prego sauce. Mix cottage cheese with mozzarella cheese. Layer uncookedbroken noodles, then beef, then cheese mixture. Repeat. End with beef and then cheese. Pour water around edges. Then sprinkle with grated parmesan cheese.

Favorite Sunday Roast
& mashed potatoes
1 Sirloin Tip Roast
Seasoning Salt
1 Can chicken broth
1 Can beef broth
Red potatoes
Sprinkle roast with seasoned salt, then brown in frying pan on stove on all sides. Put in crock pot. Fill Rest of Crock pot with red potatoes. Pour Beef and Chicken broth over top. Cook on High 7-8 hours. Pull out potatoes, put in pot to mash. Add butter, sour cream, salt and pepper. Whip using mixer. Take out roast and slice. Make gravy out of drippings. Put in to sauce pan, add 2 chicken bouillon and 2 beef bouillon bring to boil. Mix 2-3 Tbls. cornstarch with a little cold water, and add to mixture slowly, whisking constantly.

Café Rio Pork
1 Pork roast
2 Cups salsa
½ C. brown sugar
Put in crock-pot cook for 6-8 hours on high for the first hour then turned to low.

Hawaiian Haystacks
2 C. Cooked cubed chicken
2 Cans cream of Chicken Soup
1 Can Chicken broth
4 Cups cooked rice
1 pkg. dry chow mein noodles
3 tomatoes, chopped
1 C. celery chopped
½ C. green pepper, chopped
½ C. green onion chopped
1 Can pineapple tidbits
1 C. grated cheddar cheese
1 C. slivered almonds
½ C. Coconut
1 C. mandarin oranges
Combine soup and chicken broth mix in chicken for gravy. Put rest of ingredients on table, let every one make t heir own. Enjoy! Family Favorite


White Chicken Chili
1 T. Corn oil
1 chopped onion
1 Clove garlic, minced
1 tsp. cumin
2 large whole chicken breasts, skinned and cooked
1 can garbanzo beans, drained (opt.)
1 can white corn, drained
1 can white beans, drained
2 cans chopped green chilies
2 chicken bouillon cubes
1 ½ C. boiling water
1 C. shredded cheddar cheese
1 TBLS. Corn starch
Sauté onion, garlic cumin in hot oil. Chop chicken breasts. Add chicken, beans, corn, chilies to sautéed items. Stir to blend. Add boiling water, chicken bouillon and stir again. Cover and let cook over low heat until flavors blend - about 30 minutes. Stir occasionally, do not let beans and corn scorch on bottom. Can put on low in crock pot. When complete mix Corn starch with a little cold water, add to thicken. Serve with chips and cheese.


Chicken Cheese Soup
2 C. chicken cooked and diced
1 Lg. onion diced
2 C. Carrots diced
2 C. Celery diced
2 C. potatoes diced
8 C. water
10 chicken bouillon cubes
1 C. flour
½ C. margarine
1 16 oz. jar Cheez Whiz
Put chicken, vegetables, water and bouillon into large crock pot and cook on high for 1 hour. Reduce to low and cook additional 4-6 hours until vegetables are tender. When ready to serve, thicken soup by melting butter and adding flour to make thick paste. In separate bowl, melt Cheez Whiz and add slowly to flour mixture. Add cheese mixture to soup and heat until thickened.


Crockpot southwest Chicken
2 Cans Black Beans (rinsed and drained)
1 Can chicken broth
1 Can Diced tomatoes w/mild green chilies, untrained
1 lb boneless skinless chicken breast
1 Jar Chunky Salsa
1 C. frozen corn
1 TBL. Dried Parsley Flakes
1 teasp. Ground cumin
¼ tsp. Pepper
1 C. Rice
Combine everything in crock pot, except rice. Cook on low 6-8 hours until chicken shreds easily. Add rice. This is like a fiesta rice bowl at Taco Bell. Yumm!!!

Chicken Continental Casserole
4-5 Chicken breasts
1/3 C. seasoned flour
2 Cans cream of Chicken Soup
2 ½ Tbsp. grated onion
4 C. water
2 C. minute rice
1 teas. Salt
Pepper
1 Tbls. Parsley
½ teas. Celery flakes
¼ teas. Thyme
Dip Chicken in Flour. Brown in Pam cooking spray in frying pan. Remove fom pan. Add soup, seasonings, and water into drippings in frying pan. Heat through to a boil. Stirring constantly. Spread rice in crock pot. Cover with 2/3 of soup mixture. Stir with fork. Top with chicken. Pour remaining soup on top. Cook on High 2-3 hours or on low 4-5 hours.




Teriyaki Bowls
4 frozen Chicken breasts
2 Cups Brown rice
2 Cups Water
2 Cups Chicken broth



Put chicken breasts in center of crock-pot. Spread rice around the chicken evenly. Pour liquid over rice. Let cook on high first hour then turn to low for 4-6 hours.

Take chicken out , shred. Steam Broccoli and carrots in microwave 5 minutes. Layer rice, chicken, and veggies, then drizzle Yoshida’s gourmet sauce (Costco) over top. Delicious!


Pulled Pork Sandwiches

1 pork roast
Chicken broth (keeps moist)
Put in crock-pot cook on high for 1 hour then turn to low for 5-7 hours.
Favorite barbecue sauce
Hamburger buns

Shred pork , add barbecue sauce. Spread on hamburger buns, or French rolls.

Crock-pot Meatloaf
1 ½ lbs. ground beef
½ lb. reduced fat bulk pork sausage
½ C. tomato sauce
½ C. egg substitute or 2 eggs
¼ C. Ketchup
1 teasp. Worcestershire sauce
1 small onion
1/3 C. saltine crackers crushed
¾ teasp. Minced garlic
½ teasp. Seasoned salt
Sauce:
½ C. Ketchup
3 TBL. Brown Sugar
¾ teasp. Ground mustard
¼ teasp. Ground nutmet
Line crockpot with foil. Criss cross. Leaving length on ends to lift loaf out of crock-pot. Coat strips with cooking spray. Mix ingredients in order given. Mixture will be moist. Shape into a loaf and put down center of slow cooker. Mix sauce and spread over loaf. Cover and cook on low 3-4 hours. I doubled the recipe and cooked on high 4 hours turned out great! I like to add scrubbed red potatoes around the top of this, then only add a vegetable.