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1/23/2011

Slow Cooker Chili Recipes - The Easiest Way To Spice Up Your Cooking

Slow cooker chili recipes are one of the easiest ways to enjoy the benefits of spicy fresh food cooked using a variety of spices.

Many amateur chefs or home cooks are scared by the prospect of cooking spicy food. Such cuisine is often perceived to be the domain of professionals or cooks that have grown up in regions famous for spicy foods such as Asia or south America. This could not be further from the truth.

Spices such as chili, turmeric, garam masala, all spice and cumin offer a very simple way for the inexperienced or amateur cook to liven up an otherwise bland dish. Take for example a tin of chopped tomatoes: place them in a pan with some garlic, fresh chili and some cumin and you immediately have a lively sauce that could form the base to many Indian dishes.

So assuming chili peppers and other spices offer the cook a simple way to liven up simple cooking, adding a slow cooker simplifies the process of putting dishes together such that the chef can focus more on flavour combinations and taste rather than cooking methodologies.

Using a slow cooker chili recipe simply involves choosing a nice selection of base ingredients that can be used in most dishes; chili peppers, potatoes, carrots, courgettes, onions, garlic. In addition the cook can then add other more specific ingredients such as chicken, beef, red or white wine, fish, liver etc. Once these two elements have been combined and are cooking slowly the chef has little to worry about.

Slow cookers therefore remove the need to be concerned about timings, browning onions, searing, crisping etc and instead let the chef free to concentrate on the 3rd element to a successful slow cooker chili recipe; spices. Once the first two elements are cooking, you should taste and experiment by adding different varieties of chili, turmeric or other spices and herbs in order to perfect the blend of flavours in your dish.

9/07/2010

The Easiest Crock Pot Roast Recipe

In case you've never used a crock pot before. The crock pot has the role to boil the food at a very low temperature. This way the cooking lasts for about 8 hours. But the great advantage is that you don't have to supervise anything. This is because there is no risk to burn the meat. Due to the low temperature. ]

Here is what you will need for the roast crock pot recipes. You will need between 3 and 5 lbs of roast (beef). Also a big fresh red onion is necessary. You will need 6 carrots. The carrots need to be peeled. 4 or 5 potatoes are a must. Optionally you may ad ½ a lb. Of fresh green beans. Other ingredients are: ½ a cup of tomato sauce, a package of beef seasoning, a package of Sazon and a cup of water.

The first step of the crock pot roast recipe is to chop the onion. Then you add the onion on the bottom of the crock pot. You may want to sprinkle a bit of flour on the onion. This will help to the overall texture. Then you have to melt ½ a lb. of butter on the already placed onion.

The next step of the crock pot roast recipe is to add the beef. After these are all placed acording to the recipe you have to mix the seasoning with the water, the Sazon and the tomato sauce. After they are completely mixed you have to pour them over the beef. Once this is done simply stir.

The final step of the roast crock pot recipe is to add sliced potatoes and carrots over the mixture. Once this is done cover and let it boil. You will have to leave it there for 6-8 hours. This depends on your tastes and
time. But usually the longer it boils the better it tastes.

You will be amazed by this amazingly easy roast crock pot recipes. It's simply the best crock pot recipe. You have to do very little work and it will have fabulous taste.