Sunday, October 30, 2011

My crock pot is ah-mazing!!

The other day I was stressing with how busy I was going to be this weekend. I was originally going to make pork chops but since that would take too much time I didn't have, I decided to make pork pot roast. So after work on Friday night, (I usually get home by midnight) I just chopped up the pork and threw in some cut carrots, asparagus, and onions with some beef broth. I put it on low to cook for 10 hours and in the morning it was all done!! I love my crock pot!! I can just throw stuff in there and not have to take too much time. Sorry I don't have a picture but I will be posting much more recipes that are crazy good and super healthy :).

The picture below is something I made earlier in the crock pot. Its actually lettuce wraps, that didn't work out as well. I also substituted the rice for lettuce inside the wraps and added cut chicken breast and ground chicken. Here's what I did:
1. I sliced the chicken breast (about 2-3 of them) in very small pieces and fried them in a bit of EVOO. After that, I added in and fried the ground chicken. As I was cooking everything, I was adding it into a bowl.
2. Make sure you are boiling a head of lettuce with the stem thingy cut out. You will want it to be a bit firm and kind of soft. But not too soft, which was my mistake. It should boil about 20-30 minutes.
3. Shred about 3 carrots, depending on how many you want, and fry them.
4. Cut up half a head of lettuce and chop it thinly and fry it as well.
5. You can add more veggies if you would like but I mainly stick to these. Mix everything together and add spices (just the basics, salt and pepper).
6. Once the lettuce is done boiling, you can cut it in half, depending on how big you want the lettuce wraps to be. I like to cut them in half.
7. Put some of the "stuffing" on a corner of the cut and boiled lettuce and just start wrapping it, making sure there isn't any stuffing coming out and piling them in the crock pot.
8. Once you have used all the stuffing, you can put the remaining lettuce on top.
9. Add some boiled water, but not too much, to make sure it doesn't dry out. I usually add about 1-2 cups.
10. Turn the crock pot on to low or high. I added mine to high to cook in four hours. I love it with fat free sour cream on the side. yummo :)

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