Topic: Slow cooker recipes ???

[John]

Anyone have any BIR recipes for a slow cooker?
Is it even possible to cook a tasty BIR type of curry in a slow cooker?

[CurryCanuck]

Hi John -

I use a slow cooker on a regular basis for some curries not containing yogurt or cream . If you brown the meat first then add any of the base sauce recipes on this site , you can achieve a good result . Additional spicing can then be added during the final stages of cooking to enhance the flavour. Hope this helps .

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[John]

Cheers CurryCanuck

I'll give that ago!

have you tried making the base sauce in a slow cooker? just wonder how it would turn out with whole spices being slowly cooked for hours?

[raygraham]

Hi John,

I haven't tried it myself with curry bases but have used a slow cooker a lot.
If I used whole spices I would "fry" them briefly first as in a "Tarka" to release their flavours before adding to the pot.
The other thing would be to add less water/liquid to start with as the covered pot does not allow for evaporation and you are likely to end up with a thinner watery sauce.
One big plus with a slow cooker is the meat/chicken ends up very tender and not dried out at all.
I think it is an area worth a bit of experimenting. You can imagine adding the ingredients before setting off to work and returning to a completed base sauce.......magic!

Ray

[CurryCanuck]

Concur with Ray...the spices  ( tarka ) should be added at the end otherwise the flavour will be far too over-powering .

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[welshuser]

I can endorse the slow cooker. I use it a lot but particularly for beef curries. The long, slow cooking certainly does tanderise the meat to a point where it falls apart in your mouth when you eat it.

[Midge]

Has anyone actua;;y got a Slow Cooker Recipe?

[CurryCanuck]

Hi Midge -
Here is a link to a recipe that I have used ( and modified on occasion ) - base sauce can be subsituted for stock .

http://home.comcast.net/~c.bendickson/recipes/crockcurry.htm

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[George]

Anyone have any BIR recipes for a slow cooker?
Is it even possible to cook a tasty BIR type of curry in a slow cooker?

I doubt very much if hardly any BIRs use a slow cooker, so there's highly unlikely to be any "BIR recipes" as such. Now, you can probably achieve similar or better results with a slow cooker than they do with a furnace under a frying pan but then it wouldn't be BIR, would it?!

Regards
George

[John]

Anyone have any BIR recipes for a slow cooker?
Is it even possible to cook a tasty BIR type of curry in a slow cooker?

I doubt very much if hardly any BIRs use a slow cooker, so there's highly unlikely to be any "BIR recipes" as such. Now, you can probably achieve similar or better results with a slow cooker than they do with a furnace under a frying pan but then it wouldn't be BIR, would it?!

Well Thanks george for you input! i was asking in the way of taste not style of cooking!
Regards
John