Can a Beef Crock Pot Recipe be gourmet? by Lisa Paterson
Find some quick tips to take your crockpot beef recipe from everyday to gourmet.
Can beef crock pot Recipes really be more than beef, vegetables and a can of soup?
We often get in the routine of using our slow cooker for a few ordinary dishes and don’t venture outside that. But your crock pot can be used for so many different types of beef recipes.
Generally beef slow cooking conjures up images of slow cooker beef soup and a crockpot stew. While these meals are yummy, there is much more you can do in your kitchen with your crock pot.
Not a week goes by that Neil and I don’t receive an email asking for a new easy beef crockpot recipe. A crock pot beef recipe that is gourmet and that they have not seen before.
Well, we have heaps of them, and add new ones all the time. And do you know why? It’s not because we are professional chefs, because we are not. We are just home cooks like you. But we continuously experiment and adapt conventional recipes.
We don’t invent the wheel we just adapt it. We source the best recipes from the best chefs and then just adapt their recipe to suit the crock pot.
There is no reason why you can’t do this at home as well. All you need remember is that the vegetables go in the crock pot first, then the meat and then pour the liquid in. It really it that easy.
Now you can adapt your favorite oven casserole recipe if you just keep these basic rules in mind.
Step one is to find a conventional beef recipe you would like to try.
Next. Remember put the vegetables in the bottom of the crock pot. Then add the beef. We do it this way so that everything cooks at the some rate.
OK that was easy. So now for the liquid part of the beef recipe.
We generally find that we need to reduce the amount of liquid the recipe asks for. As a rule of thumb add enough liquid to cover the vegetables. And you are good to go, just remember to always cook with the lid on.
About half an hour before you want to serve your beef meal, take the lid off and take a look. If there is too much liquid, add some corn starch mixed with water and stir it in. Flip your crock pot to the high setting and allow to cook. When you are ready to eat, the liquid should be thick and delicious.
Nearly there. Just on last thing to consider. Due to the long, slow cooking process herbs and spices tend to loose their flavor. So about an hour before serving, take a taste and just add more if required.
And there you have it your very own original beef crock pot recipe. Share it with us at http://www.A-Crock-Cook.com, so we can put it on the web for you.
Enjoy Cooking!
Lisa “The Crock Cook”
About the Author
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