Having become popular several years ago, an ultramodern device that looks like a large pan equipped with an electric wire, a crock-pot is a favorite of housewives, single men and everyone who is used to properly allocate their time and is a fan of quality and healthy nutrition.
Cooking in a slow cooker is extremely simple. Equipped with very detailed, almost step-by-step instructions and a book of the best recipes, as a rule, having a convenient panel and board, it is not only accessible to even a person far from technology, but also makes it easy and simple to craft complex dishes that previously seemed inaccessible and intricate.
General principles
As a rule, any multicooker has several cooking modes at once, which should be selected depending on the recipe found, it can be frying or cooking, any type of stewing, steaming, baking, and many other functions available in the model you purchased. Having found the desired method of processing the dish, it’s worth going to the point of choosing the product itself, it can be meat, vegetables, cereals, fish.
Do not forget to set the required cooking time. For vegetables, with proper proportions and fairly small slices, this can be about 20 minutes, cereals will require from 20 to 40, stewing, depending on the quality and age of the meat taken, may require 1-2 hours of free time.
Of course, the usual recipes will have to be adapted for a slow cooker. So, you need to get rid of excess meat fat, otherwise the bowl of the device will simply be buried in a fat sauce, which will deprive the dish of taste. Salting meat is also necessary before laying, and not just sprinkle with spice, but grate and leave for 7 minutes, so the fibers absorb salt.
Garnishes are best prepared separately from pork and beef, as the cooking time is different. It is optimal to cook meat, and then in its own sauce - garnish. Very tasty. True, there is an exception, so it is quite possible to cook chicken and rice, chicken and potatoes at the same time.
There is a secret to cooking in a baking oven. Many inexperienced users are faced with the problem of removing the finished cake from the mold. Take your time: let the dish cool for 10 minutes, then simply turn the bowl on a large plate. Baking easily leaves the container, but only on condition that you remember to grease the walls with oil before laying the dough.
The slow cooker allows you to choose and set the regime of the so-called deferred time, this is necessary when you need to cook fresh porridge for breakfast for children or prepare dinner by the time the long-awaited guests arrive, even when you are too lazy to get out of bed or need to go out for a while from home. The heating mode allows you to keep the cooked dish fresh and warm until it is removed.
The multicooker bowl requires a little processing with vegetable or butter, which creates an economical effect of languishing products, which allows you to save all the useful trace elements and vitamins.
