Slow Cooker Recipes (Most Popular)
Homemade applesauce is both simple and a great way to use up fresh apples. Two pieces of equipment will make this a simple and healthy recipe. You need a slow cooker and a food mill. Mine is made by OXO. I use this WONDERFUL kitchen tool for creamy mashed potatoes, sweet potato pie and apple sauce.
You don't have to peel or core the apples. Just cook them, and the mill will do the rest of the work!
This is a MUCH lower calorie, lower fat version of a recipe that sounded good to me.
Makes 4 cups - each serving 1 TBSP
Apple butter is a highly concentrated form of apple sauce, produced by long, slow cooking of apples with cider or water to a point where the sugar in the apples caramelizes, turning the apple butter a deep brown. The concentration of sugar gives apple butter a much longer shelf life as a preserve than applesauce. Apple butter was a popular way of using apples in colonial America, and well into the 19th century. The term “butter” refers to the thick, soft consistency, and apple butter’s use as a spread for breads. Typically seasoned with cinnamon, cloves, lemon juice and other spices, apple butter may be spread on buttered toast, used as a side dish, an ingredient in baked goods, or as a condiment.
This is a recipe I came across while living in Italy many years ago. I have added some of my favorite vegetables to it to "beef" it up and make it more hearty. It is one of my family's favorites, great for a cold fall or winter night.
This soup is great on a cold winter day and is wonderful for freezing and taking to work for lunch.
Remastered from the other version avalible here; using lower fat and calorie version of ingredients.
Just add couscous or brown rice for a complete & healthy meal
Great Soup for Lunch or Dinner. Put the Ingredients in the crock pot and in 6 - 8 hours you have a great soup.
Tender chicken thighs slow cook all day in a savoury lemon garlic broth.