Stuffed mackerel
low 2-3
Mackerel
4 medium size
Tomatoes, skinned and chopped
2
Lemon juice
20ml (4tsp)
Cooking apple, peeled, cored
and chopped
1 medium
Slices of bread, crumbed
2
Chopped Parsley
to taste
Gut and clean the mackerel. Remove the head, bones and fins but leave the
tails. Lay the mackerel out, skin side down, season and sprinkle with lemon
juice. Mix the other ingredients to make stuffing. Divide the stuffing among the
mackerel, roll up from head to tail, and secure with a cocktail stick or thread.
Butter baking parchment and the bottom of the crock pot, put the parchment
in the crock pot and the fish on the parchment. Cook for the time shown.
Portuguese haddock
low 3
Butter
25g (1oz)
Onion, very thinly sliced
1 medium
Haddock or cod steaks or fillets
4
Salt and pepper
to taste
Condensed cream of tomato soup
298g (10
1
/
2
oz can)
Bay leaf
1
Butter the bottom of the crock pot. Lay the onion on the butter, then the fish
and bay leaf. Season. Boil the tomato soup in a pan, stirring well, and pour
over the fish. Cook for the time shown. Remove the bay leaf before serving.
Meat
Slow cooking tenderises the cheaper cuts of meat. It also means less shrinkage.
When roasting, the juices don’t spit or evaporate, so flavour and nutritive
value are retained. The size and shape of the joint, its quality, and the
proportion of lean, fat and bone, all affect cooking times. Experience will soon
help you judge these. When testing a dish to see if it’s cooked, don’t forget
it’s the root vegetables which usually take longer to cook. Thaw frozen meat
completely before cooking. Recipe times are given only as a guide. Where a
different cut of meat is used cooking times may need to be adjusted. Avoid
meat which has a high proportion of fat, or trim the excess fat.
Joints up to 1.6kg (3
1
/
2
lb) (see below) can be cooked, depending on shape and
fit. The meat mustn’t force the lid up.
1.Season the meat, then brown on all sides in a frying pan.
2.Transfer to the crock pot and cook on high for the time shown.
3.Pork joints with rind may be grilled for 10 minutes to crisp.
4.If possible, turn joints once during cooking, to ensure even tenderness.
Joint Weight
Setting
Time
Beef, lamb, pork
1-1.6kg (2-3
1
/
2
lb)
High
5-7 hours
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