Slow Cooker Chicken Tikka Masala

Tikka Masala is a delicious and simple Indian style curry. What's better, it can be made even easier in the slow cooker!

Slow Cooker Pepper Steak

This Pepper Steak needs minimal ingredients and minimal hands on time to give you a beautiful, Asian-inspired meal that the whole family will love.

Aunt Bee's Three Meat Chili

I recently saw a post Aunt Bee's Recipes put together for Rocket City Mom: Tailgating Recipes with Aunt Bee. This is a fantastic collection of football season foods, and definitely worth a read. Everything she included looked fantastic, but the thing that immediately caught my eye was Three Meat Chili. Even just the name sounds amazing.

I clicked through to Aunt Bee's blog straight away and checked out the recipe. It seemed straightforward to make, and had a great combination of ingredients. So with a few minor alterations (based on the ingredients I had) I got right to making this chili.

Slow Cooked Lamb Shanks

Slow cooked lamb shanks are just delicious, the meat falls from the bone and almost melts in your mouth. This is great comfort food on those cold winter nights. If you're in the middle of summer, recipes like this are also good for avoiding heating up your kitchen.

The sauce I used here is packed full of flavor and has a delightful taste and texture. We absolutely loved this dish and we will definitely be making it again very soon.

Slow Cooked Lamb Shanks

Serves 4

4 Lamb Shanks/Knuckles
1 onion, finely diced
4 cloves garlic, crushed
140 g tub (5 oz) tomato paste
1 Cup red wine
1 Cup lamb stock
400 g (14 oz) tin of diced tomatoes
1 large carrot, diced
1 sprig of rosemary, removed from stalk and leaves finely chopped
1 tsp salt
ground black pepper to taste


1. Heat a dash of oil in a large fry pan over a high heat. Sear the lamb shanks briefly, one at a time.

2. Place all ingredients in a slow cooker/crock pot and cook on low for eight hours.

3. Gently remove the lamb shanks into a dish and cover with foil, set aside. Pour the sauce into a large fry pan or sauce pan and simmer for about 20 minutes, until reduced.

4. Serve over mashed potatoes.

Lamb Fettuccine

Lamb is my favorite meat. Here, I made a lamb ragu in the slow cooker to end up with a beautiful tender meat sauce. I paired this with homemade egg fettuccine and it made for a lovely meal.

I love coming home in the evening to the smell of food that has been in the slow cooker all day. It's also nice to know that dinner is almost cooked already!

If you don't have time to make your own pasta then I would go for the fresh pastas in the chilled section of the supermarket, rather than dried pasta. 

Lamb Fettuccine with fresh egg pasta

Serves 4

Basic egg pasta
500 - 600 g lamb steaks, sliced
1 Onion, roughly chopped
4 cloves garlic, roughly chopped
1 Red bell pepper, roughly chopped
1 Red chilli, roughly chopped (seeds removed to suit your preferred spiciness)
1 1/2 Cups spinach leaves
1 400 g tin of tomatoes
Dried mixed herbs
Salt and pepper

1. Place all of the vegetables (including tinned tomatoes) in a food processor and process until neat smooth

2. Place the sauce, lamb, and mixed herbs in a slow cooker and cook on low for about 8 hours. If the sauce seems thin after 8 hours, switch the cooker to high, remove the lid and leave it for about half an hour and the sauce will thicken.

3. Cut homemade pasta into strips, cook in salted boiling water for about 4 minutes, drain, and serve lamb mixture over pasta.

Steak and Cheese Pie

Steak and Cheese Pie is a real Kiwi classic. Homemade in the slow cooker it's a real melt in the mouth delight.