Slow Cooker Chicken and Veg Stew recipe is an easy dinner or lunch casserole. Any chicken pieces for family meals with vegetables.
Slow Cooker Chicken and Veg Stew
A delicious Slow Cooker Chicken and Veg Stew recipe idea for a casserole lunch or dinner. This is so easy and quick to prepare to set up for a supper or lunch. Only needs 10 minutes to prep. Especially if you have frozen chopped vegetables ready to place in the cooker or a crock pot. A one pot recipe family meal for chilly cold fall or winter days.
Why use a slow cooker?
Well because the cooker cooks slowly it can tenderize the meats better especially if you use less expensive meats that are tougher. It brings out the flavor of foods and you can cook a variety of meals in the cooker. Including soups, stews, one pot meals and casseroles. Not to mention cake and puddings. Guess what the slow cooker uses less electricity than a oven.
Is it OK to put raw chicken in slow cooker?
All the slow cookers or crock pots are designed to cook raw meat, so yes you can absolutely put raw meats in a cooker. It has a slow cooking method and the direct heat from the cooker and the lid tightly close created a steam to cook the meats slowly and safely which destroys any bacteria.
Why is my slow cooker stew watery?
Your stew might be to watery if you add to much liquid to your slow cooker. Also the evaporation of the steam can not escape with the tight lid on.
What liquid do you put in a slow cooker?
To make sure your slow cooker or crock pot does not contain to much liquid to become soggy. Only add up to half or a cup of liquid to the ingredients. For adding extra flavor add some broth or juices or wine.
Ingredients
- chicken cut into squares.
- chopped red onion, green and red bell peppers
- chopped carrots, cut up broccoli, cauliflower chopped
- medium potato’s cut into squares, sweet potato’s cut up
- ripe large tomatoes cut into pieces
- Worcester sauce, soya sauce, tomato paste
- salt and pepper or lemon pepper
- 1 teaspoon of rosemary, 1 teaspoon of oregano
- dried garlic or 3 chopped fresh cloves
- bay leaf
- water with vegetable stock or chicken stock. (or use chicken broth)
All the amounts can be obtained in the recipe attached.
Carrots, potato’s, tomato, onion and garlic of course
The veg would be peppers, broccoli and cauliflower and carrots.
Boneless chicken breast or other chicken cut into squares.
Herbs are used for that aroma and taste such as rosemary and oregano, salt, pepper and bay leaf.
Also use some sauce such as soy and Worcestershire sauce. veggie stock.
How To
Add all the chopped and slice veg and chicken and spices and sauces to the slow cooker and switch it on and leave to cook.
Notice below is a lot of frozen chopped veggies and that would not take as much liquid as requested as these will provide water once defrosted.
By the time supper comes around and you enter the house, because that is why you set this up to cook. The delishes aroma of the stew hits you and fills the home with this amazing aroma. Your stomach suddenly get very hungry.
All that’s left is to dish it up on a plate for the family and enjoy.
The Recipe for a Slow Cooker and Chicken and veg Stew. Please feel free to download the general recipe page to write this recipe out on and makes great filing with the pages being all one size.
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PrintSlow Cooker Chicken and Veg Stew
Slow Cooker Chicken and Veg Stew recipe is an easy dinner or lunch casserole. Any chicken pieces for family meals with vegetables.
- Prep Time: 10 min
- Cook Time: 6 hrs
- Total Time: 6 hrs 10 min
- Yield: 6 1x
- Category: Meals, supper or lunch, dinner
- Method: slow cooker or crock pot
Ingredients
- 700g (1.5lbs) chicken cut into squares.
- 1 cup of chopped red onion
- 1 cup of green and red bell peppers
- 1 cup of chopped carrots
- 1 cup of cut up broccoli
- 2 medium potato’s cut into squares
- 2 sweet potato’s cut into squares (if you prefer normal or baby potato’s leave out the sweet potato’s)
- 2 ripe large tomatoes cut into pieces
- 1 cup of cauliflower chopped
- 1 tablespoon of Worcester sauce
- 1 teaspoon of soya sauce
- 2 tablespoons of tomato paste
- 1 teaspoon each of salt and pepper or lemon pepper
- 1 teaspoon of rosemary
- 1 teaspoon of oregano
- 2 teaspoons of dried garlic or 3 chopped fresh cloves (because I love garlic, use less if preferred)
- 1 bay leaf
- 1 1/2 cups of water with vegetable stock or chicken stock. (or use chicken broth)
Instructions
- Clean and set up the slow cooker.
- Switch it on.
- Add all the chopped and cut vegetables and chicken to the cooker,
- Add the spices and paste and water stock, sauces and then stir all together.
- Place the lid on.
- Switch the slow cooker to Stews and press start button.
- This slow cooker should take at least 6 hours.
- Prepare your meal in advance.
- enjoy.
Notes
You can change the chicken for meat if desired. Use tomato sauce for puree it you do not have it, as well as a can of tomato puree if you do not have ripe tomato’s. Fresh is better. Add any vegetable that are available in the kitchen at the time. Also use baby potato’s instead of medium potato’s.
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