Salsa chicken. It’s chicken, a bit of taco seasoning, then salsa. Cooked for 4 hours on high.
I have a variant of this I love. 2-3 lbs Chicken breast coated in taco seasoning and enough chicken broth to cover most of it. Cook on high for 3 hours. Drain the liquid, add half a block of cream cheese and half a cup of salsa, shred the chicken and add it to the now melted goo in the pot. Stir and eat. You might need some time for it to heat back up.
My other favorite is a chuck roast and a big jar of pickled peppers. Cook it for 8 hours on low. Shred it, strain it onto toasted ciabatta rolls with a couple slices of provolone and Dijon mustard.
lentils, featuring onion and garlic
Pulled pork:
- 1 red onion, thinly sliced, on the bottom layer
- A piece of pork (shoulder is probably best but I’ve also done tenderloin), trimmed
- 1/2 cup BBQ sauce poured over the meat
Cook about 3-4h on high or 6-8ish on low. Remove pork, shred with a fork, return to slow cooker & stir everything up together before serving.
As an alternative to the bbq sauce: hot sauce (cayenne based usually), spicy brown mustard, and some (apple cider) vinegar
Do spices count as ingredients? My mother always pressed into me so much to have a stocked spice…drawer? Rack? Thing? that I don’t think of them as a number for the recipe. “Of course I have black pepper, salt, oregano, bay leaves, etcetc” but I realize maybe I should count them before giving recipes!
Personally I think spices aren’t the usual ingredient. Like a secondary that most people have on hand. I think ingredients are like bulkier items if that makes sense lol
Everything I like has more than 5 ingredients if you count seasonings. Might as well heat up soup.
- Can of soup
- chickpeas (canned bc im lazy)
- garam masala
- tomato sauce
- coconut milk
- water/broth if needed
you can serve with rice or bread, or eat them on their own
Red chili stew. Onions, tomatoes, beef, broth and chili flakes
If you don’t count oip and spices, then any kind of dal. Dal, onion, ginger garlic paste, chili, tomato. Then add your spices, which can be as simple as garam masala, turneric, and red chili powder. Salt after it’s cooked. Aside from the onion everything can come from the pantry or freezer. Technically you could blend and freeze the onion to make life even easier.
I know I’m pushing it but this is basically the easiest meal ever and it’s just one pot. You only need to dirty a cutting board, knife, and spoon. It’s nearly a pantry meal and requires no thought or special technique aside from knowing when onions are caramelized but not burned. And it’s vegan, gluten free, and very inexpensive.
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Under 5 ingredients? Farikal.
3 kg lamb meat 3 kg cabbage 8 tsp whole, black peppercorns 4 tsp salt 600 ml water
That’s 5 ingredients. Including salt, pepper and water. As an asian, I was dubious about this, but it packs and amazing amount of flavour from so few ingredients. Serve with baked/boiled/mashed potatoes, or bread, and a cold beer.
Chicken soup.
Chicken stock, chicken, carrots, onion, celery. Add noodles if you like.
don’t even need chicken stock. If you cook the onions on bottom of pot first to brown, add chicken in and brown if you want then add all the other stuff + water. Add salt/pepper let it cook a while. This is literally how chicken stock is made. Onions + celery + carrots are called the holy trinity.
I like making the noodles fresh and adding them after, lets you get away with low quality noodles that would turn to paste sitting in the soup too long otherwise
Curry.
- curry paste
- coconut cream
- whatever veggies and legumes you have
- a side of rice
Love that idea. Not sure why I never thought of making curry in the slow cooker! Do you used dried beans/legumes? Or canned/soaked?
Beans take a really long time to cook, so I like lentils better. But I do have cans of beans and of chickpeas sometimes
In my country we are used to eat every part of the animals so I have many recipes, but non you would like lol. Once I said my favorite dish ever was oxtail and people freaked out. Btw, Oxtail and potatoes in the pressure cooker is enough. Omg so goooooooood
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Oxtail soup is amazing. I make it with a whole bottle of wine, and never eat it the first day. Unfortunately oxtail is very expensive here right now.
wow rrally? here is really cheap
So pricey I used short ribs instead the last time I made the soup, because it worked out cheaper! I don’t know what is going on but they are. Enjoy it while you can, all the odds and ends that used to be cheap are not anymore, here.
That’s bizarre. Oxtail is pretty common in the states these days. At least in California. So good indeed!!
