Archive for the ‘Pork – Slow Cooker’ Category
3-Ingredient Crockpot Ranch Pork Chops I
This is a quick to put together meal with only 3 ingredients and two you can make from shortcuts for cost savings. I made this yesterday 14 Sep 2017 and used bone in pork chops I found in Tesco, thick cut as well, and wow is this good! I think thick cut pork loin would equally as well. Links to the shortcuts are listed in the Recipe Notes section.
Ingredients
- 4 pork chops, bone in, thick cut
- 1-2 tablespoons dry ranch dressing mix, OR make from a shortcut
- 2 cups chicken gravy, OR make from a shortcut
Instructions
- Lightly butter the slow cooker insert. Place chops in the slow cooker.
- Sprinkle chops with the ranch dressing mix.
- Pour the gravy over the top. Cover and cook on low for 6 to 8 hours. Do not remove the lid before 6 hours, check for tenderness, if tender, serve, if not continue cooking until 7 or 8 hours.
- Serve with mashed potatoes and gravy from the slow cooker and a vegetable for a complete meal.
Notes
The pork chops I found at Tesco, thick cut, bone in, 250 grams each, were 160 Baht each making this about $4.70 per serving but these are so good I will make this once every 3 months, when I go to the city for my address report, I will look in Makro for these and the cost should be less. I will also test this recipe with just thick cut pork loin, which would make this a low cost meal.
Shortcuts: Ranch Dressing Mix, Chicken Gravy.
Provided by Slow Cooker Kitchen and the link to this recipe is here.
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One Pot Smoked Sausage Dinner
Sounds like a great meal, in Thailand, Makro has some excellent smoked sausage at times. All slow cookers are different so the first time you make this, you may need to adjust the liquid needed. On my to cook list.
Ingredients
- 500 grams smoked sausage, cut into 2-3 inch pieces
- 6-8 medium potatoes, washed only
- 2 heads small cabbage, quartered
- 2-3 large carrots, cut in half, 2-3 inch pieces
- 1 1/2 cups beef stock, fresh or from powder
Instructions
- Oil or butter your slow cooker crock. Wash and prep the veggies as indicated.
- Place in the slow cooker, first potatoes, then carrots, then cabbage, then sausage. Pour in the stock. Cover and cook on High setting for 4-7 hours.
- When the potatoes and carrots are fork tender, the meal is ready.
Notes
I cannot price this until I make it, I need to go up to Makro for sausage and I can get accurate pricing information then. I will say Fair value for right now and will update this.
Provided by Slow Cooker Kitchen and the link to this recipe is here.
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Slow Cooker Sausage & Potatoes II
Potatoes and sausage, not only does this sound good, it is delicious! Use any sausage you like, use any potatoes you like. I made this on 7 May 2022 and was very well liked by the family! For this dish I use my large 6 quart slow cooker. Link to the shortcut is listed in the Recipe Notes section.
Equipment
- Slow Cooker (6+ quart)
Ingredients
- 1 kilo sausage links, cut into 1 inch pieces, (2 lb)
- 1 kilo potatoes, peeled, cut into 1 inch pieces, (2 lb)
- black pepper, as desired
- 1 large onion, chopped
- 6-12 cloves garlic, minced
- 1 can condensed cream of chicken soup, Shortcut
- ¾ cup chicken stock, fresh or from powder
- 2 tablespoons Worcestershire sauce
- hot cooked spaghetti, for serving, optional
- 1-2 carrots, peeled and chopped, optional
Instructions
- Lightly oil or butter your slow cooker insert. Add the potatoes and spread out to make an even layer. Season with black pepper as desired. Optionally, you can add 1-2 chopped carrots along with the potatoes.
- Sprinkle the onions and garlic, over the potatoes.
- For those in Thailand, I use BMP brand, Combination Sausage Scrap, which I get Makro. It is three types of sausage and is good quality.
- Add the sausage in the final layer.
- In a mixing bowl, add the soup, broth, Worcestershire sauce and mix together. Pour the mixture over the sausage.
- Cover and cook on Low setting for 6-8 hours. Checking the tenderness of the potatoes at 6 hours, and continue cooking if needed for tender potatoes.
- Serve and enjoy.
- As a variant, serve with cooked spaghetti. This was requested by a niece living with us, and I must say, it is a great addition.
Notes
Figure about 150 Baht for good sausage. For 8 servings, this is about 50 cents per serving.
Shortcut: Condensed Cream of Chicken Soup.
Variants: 1. Serve with hot cooked spaghetti (highly recommended). 2. Add 1-2 chopped carrots.
Updated on 21 June 2022.
Root Beer BBQ Pork Ribs
Sounds good, and the ribs I would use are the short ribs found in any Tesco or even fresh markets but watch the cook time. I will verify this when I make them. This is a slow cooker recipe that will also need your broiler as well. Link to the shortcut is listed in the Recipe Notes section.
Ingredients
- 1 1/2 kilos pork ribs
- 2 cans Root Beer, OR Ginger Ale aka Ginger Beer
- 2 cups BBQ sauce, OR make from a shortcut
- salt and pepper, as needed
- spring onions, thinly sliced, for garnish
Instructions
- These are the ribs I get at Tesco. Look for the strips that are meaty, remove the distorted bones on the ends and save for a soup if you wish, and just go with the nice straight bones. The bones are only about 3 inches long.
- Remove silver skin from the back of the ribs if that is present. Cut the ribs into 3 bone sections, sprinkle generously with salt and pepper and place in the slow cooker.
- Pour the root beer into the slow cooker, cover, and cook on Low setting for 5 hours, do not remove the cover.
- Check the ribs at 5 hours, if very tender, you are almost done, if not tender, continue cooking and checking each hour. Once the ribs are tender, carefully remove from the pot and set on a foil lined baking sheet.
- Brush the ribs with BBQ sauce and broil for a few minutes, charring a bit is ok, then flip the ribs over, brush more sauce, and broil for a few more minutes, again, a bit of char is ok. Remove to a serving tray, sprinkle some thinly sliced spring onion on, and serve.
Notes
Pork ribs are about 115 Baht/kilo. 1 1/2 kilo would be about 173 Baht. For 4 servings, this is about $1.27 per serving, over all good price for a quality meal, after all, who does not like ribs.
Shortcut: BBQ Sauce.
Provided courtesy of good friend, Stephen Connell.
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Pork Knuckles & Sauerkraut (Kombes mit Eisbein und Kartoffelbrei)
This is a true German dish and if you have ever had pork knuckles, this is a good way to prepare them compared to just roasting, which is also very good.
Ingredients
- 2 pork knuckles, or 4 ham hocks
- 3 cups sauerkraut, rinsed and drained
- 4 cups beef stock
- 1 cup dark beer
- 1 medium onion, diced
- 2 teaspoons juniper berries
- 3 bay leaves
- 3 tablespoons Worcherstershire sauce
- salt and pepper, to taste
- mashed potatoes, to serve
Instructions
- Place the pork knuckles in your slow cooker.
- Mix together remaining ingredients except the mashed potatoes and pour over the knuckles. Cover and cook on Low setting for 8 hours without removing the lid.
- Remove the knuckles from the slow cooker. Scoop out some sauerkraut and place on one side of each plate, place a pork knuckle on top of the kraut, then place a scoop of mashed potatoes on the other side of the plate. Serve.
Notes
These are available at Makro, frozen, each is 800 grams and cost is 200 Baht each. And I recently seen them 4 in a bag, frozen in Tesco, cannot remember the price. If serving one knuckle for 2 people (easily done), the cost would be about $2.95 per person. I will add the cost of sauerkraut when I find that. More expensive than other meals listed here but is a great treat for yourself.
Slow Cooker Gumbo
Sounds delicious! On my to cook list.
Equipment
- Slow Cooker
Ingredients
- 3 tablespoons all purpose flour
- 3 tablespoons cooking oil
- 250 grams smoked sausage, cut into ½ inch slices, (8 oz)
- 2 okra, sliced, fresh or frozen
- 1 large onion, chopped
- 1 green bell pepper, chopped
- 3 cloves garlic, smashed and minced
- ¼ teaspoon cayenne pepper
- ¼ teaspoon black pepper
- 1 can whole peeled tomatoes, chopped, with juice
- 340 grams fresh shrimp, peeled, deveined, tail removed, cooked, (12 oz)
- cooked rice, for serving
Instructions
- In small saucepan, combine flour and oil; mix well. Cook, stirring constantly, over medium-high heat for 5 minutes. Reduce heat to medium; cook, stirring constantly, about 10 minutes or until mixture turns reddish brown, then pour into your slow cooker.
- Stir in all remaining ingredients into your slow cooker except the shrimp and rice. Cover and cook on Low setting for 7-9 hours. About 20-30 before serving, add cooked shrimp to gumbo mixture in your slow cooker and mix well. Cover and cook on Low setting for an additional 20 minutes.
- Serve over rice, enjoy.
Notes
Figure about 50 Baht for good smoked sausage, for the shrimp, through Tesco, Whites will cost about 100 Baht for 340 grams. For 6 servings, this is about 74 cents per serving.
Slow Cooker Cuban Pork
This sounds really good and is a must try for me.
Ingredients
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- 1/2 cup orange juice
- 1/2 cup lime juice
- 1 1/2 teaspoons salt
- 1 teaspoon ground cumin
- 1 teaspoon dried oregano
- 1/4 teaspoon red pepper flakes
- 1/8 teaspoon black pepper
- 7 cloves garlic, smashed and minced
- 1 onion, sliced thin
- 1 bay leaf
- 1 1/2 kilo pork shoulder, (3 lbs)
Instructions
- In a medium bowl, whisk together the oil, juices, salt, cumin, oregano, red pepper flakes, pepper, and garlic.
- Make slits in the pork with a knife and place the pork in the juice mixture and rub liberally all over with the oil mixture.
- Place pork in the slow cooker, along with the onion and bay leaf. Poor the remaining juices from the bowl over the pork.
- Cover and cook on low for 7 hours, if the meat shreds easily, it is down, if not done, cook another hour and test again. Using two forks, shred into thick chunks in the pot then use a large slotted spoon to serve it with.
- Serve with mashed potatoes with some of the juice spooned over the top.
- Serve in a tortilla with Cheddar cheese.
- Serve with cilantro lime rice and black beans.
Notes
Pork shoulder runs about 100 Baht/kilo, for this recipe this would be 150 Baht for 1 1/2 kilo. For 6 servings, this is about 75 cents per serving, great value.
Variants: 1. Use pork loin in place of the pork shoulder. 2. Use a pork roast in place of the pork shoulder.
Provided courtesy of good friend, Stephen Connell.
United States. Variant 1 tested by Tina Nolan, with excellent results.
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United States. Variant 1 tested by Tina Nolan, with excellent results.
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Pork Tacos (Slow Cooker)
I found this recipe as originally stated as roast in the oven with the meat stacked on a skewer and called for achiote paste, which I am not going to find nor do I think I can make that here. I am going to write this as a slow cooker recipe as well.
Equipment
- Slow Cooker
Ingredients
For the Marinade
- 1 tablespoon chili powder
- 1½ teaspoons garlic powder
- 1½ teaspoons dried oregano
- 1½ teaspoons ground cumin
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1½ teaspoons black pepper
- 6 tablespoons vinegar
- ½ cup pineapple juice, from a carton, not fresh
- 1½ kilos pork shoulder, cut into ¾ inch cubes, (3 lb)
To Prepare
- 6-10 tortillas, corn or flour
- onion, chopped
- fresh cilantro, chopped
- salsa, of your choice, Shortcut
Instructions
- In a mixing bowl, mix together the marinade ingredients except the pork.
- Cube the pork and add to the mixing bowl, and mix together with the marinade. Cover and place in the fridge to marinate for 2-24 hours.
- After marinating, place the pork in your slow cooker and cook for 6-10 hours on Low setting, remove and drain the meat, place a few spoons of meat on a tortilla, top with some onion, cilantro, and salsa, fold and enjoy!
Notes
The pork would cost about 100 Baht/kilo, so 150 Baht for that. The tortillas, flour, import from the states (actually good quality) will run 240 Baht/pack of 10. For 10 servings, this is about $1.15 per serving, not bad for visiting friends and family.
Shortcut: Salsa.
Slow Cooker Pork & Noodles I
This sounds really good and I had to write a soup shortcut for this as well, as the soup stated is not available in my location. On my to cook list. Link to the shortcut is listed in the Recipe Notes section.
Ingredients
- 750 grams pork tenderloin
- 1/4 cup all purpose flour
- 2 cans condensed French onion soup, OR make from a shortcut
- 2 tablespoons Worcherstershire sauce
- 1/2 teaspoon garlic powder
- 2 tablespoons butter
- 2 tablespoons all purpose flour
- 3 cups dry egg noodles, or use Fettuccine pasta
- 1 cup water
- salt and pepper, to taste
Instructions
- Place flour on shallow plate and roll pork tenderloin in it. Place in your slow cooker, and add soup, Worcestershire sauce, and garlic powder. Cover and cook on Low setting for 5 hours or until tender enough to shred with two forks.
- Melt butter and remove from heat, stir in the flour to create smooth paste. Carefully remove pork from the slow cooker as it will be tender then whisk in flour/butter mixture. Shred the pork using 2 forks and return to slow cooker. Add the egg noodles or pasta and the water and stir in, cover and cook for about 30 minutes or until the pasta is tender. Don't overcook the pasta. Season with salt and pepper to taste and serve.
Notes
Pork tenderloin will run about 144 Baht per kilo, for 750 grams this is about 108 Baht. For 6 servings, this is about 53 cents per serving.
Shortcut: Condensed French Onion Soup.
Adapted from an internet recipe.
Balsamic Pork Tenderloin
This sounds really good, and the slow cooker does all the work for you. Link to the shortcut is listed in the Recipe Notes section.
Ingredients
- 1-1 1/2 kilos pork tenderloin
- 1 cup chicken stock, fresh or from powder
- 1/2 cup balsamic vinegar, OR make from a shortcut
- 1 tablespoon Worcherstershire sauce
- 1 tablespoon soy sauce
- 1 tablespoon honey
- 1/2 teaspoon red chili flakes, OR go with 1-2 Thai chilies, chopped
- 2 cloves garlic, smashed and minced
Instructions
- Place the pork tenderloin into your slow cooker. In a bowl, mix together all remaining ingredients. Pour over pork and cook on Low setting for 6-8 hours.
- Once pork tenderloin has cooked, remove from slow cooker with tongs and a slotted spoon on to a serving dish. Break apart lightly with two forks and then ladle about 1/4 to 1/2 cup of gravy over pork tenderloin. Serve with mashed potatoes and a vegetable for a complete and easy meal.
Notes
Pork tenderloin will run about 148 Baht/kilo. Using just 1 kilo of tenderloin, for 6 servings, this is about 73 cents per serving, very reasonable cost, even with potatoes and a vegetable, this is still below $1 per serving.
Shortcut: Balsamic Vinegar Substitute.
Adapted from an internet recipe.
