Family Favorite Asian Crock Pot Recipes

One of the easiest methods of getting dinner on the table quickly is with one of the smaller appliances that cook the slowest. What is this wonder appliance? Your crock pot slow cooker of course. There is a multitude of interesting and delicious crock pot recipes available these days. Keep your family well fed and looking forward to coming to the dinner table. By using your crock pot to prepare your meals, you can start it all in the morning and have supper waiting when you come home.





Just about everyone has slow cooked a nice beef stew, in fact it's one of the most searched for crock pot recipes online. How about trying something different with your crock pot? If you and your family love Asian food, then there is a great Asian crock pot recipe out there to suit your taste and interest. We've included three Asian style crock pot recipes below. Give one a try this week and treat your family to a new favorite meal for dinner.





Chinese Pepper Steak





1-1/2 lbs boneless beef round steak


1 clove garlic, minced


1/2 tsp salt


1/4 tsp pepper


1/4 cup sauce


1 tbsp hoisin sauce


1 tsp sugar


1 tomato, chopped


2 red or green bell peppers, cut into strips


3 tbsp cornstarch


3 tbsp water


1 cup fresh bean sprouts


4 scallions, finely chopped





First, trim fat from steak and slice into thin strips. Mix together steak, garlic, salt, pepper, soy sauce, hoisin sauce, and sugar in your crock pot. Cover and cook on low about 8 hours. 30 minutes before cooking time is done, set your crock pot on high. Add tomato and bell peppers. Dissolve cornstarch in water in small bowl; stir into steak mixture. Cover and cook for 30 minutes or until thickened. Stir in bean sprouts. Sprinkle with onions. Serve with rice.





Chicken Chow Mein





1 tbsp oil


1-1/2 pounds boneless, skinless chicken breasts, cut into 1-inch pieces


4 carrots, thinly sliced


4 green onions, sliced


3 stalks celery, sliced


1 cup low sodium chicken broth


1 tbsp granulated sugar


1/3 cup light soy sauce


1/4 tsp crushed red pepper flakes


1/4 tsp ground ginger


1 clove garlic, crushed


8 oz bean sprouts


8 oz water chestnuts, sliced


1/4 cup cornstarch


1/2 cup water





Brown the chicken in skillet. Put chicken pieces in crock pot and then add all ingredients except cornstarch and water. Stir and cover; cook on low for 8 - 10 hours. Set crock pot to high and combine cornstarch and cold water in a small bowl; stir until dissolved. Stir into the crock pot liquids. Keeping cover slightly ajar to allow steam to escape, cook until thickened, about 15 to 30 minutes. Serve over rice or with chow mein noodles.





Szechuan Pork





1-1/2 lbs boneless pork chops


1 - 8 oz can bamboo shoots, drained


1 - 8 oz can water chestnuts, drained


6 green onions, chopped


1/4 cup Worcestershire sauce


1/4 cup Szechuan hot bean sauce


1/4 cup soy sauce


2-1/2 tbsp minced fresh ginger


2 tbsp rice wine or dry sherry


4 tsp sesame oil


4 tsp sugar


8 cloves garlic, minced





Trim chops of excess fat and brown on both sides in a skillet on the stovetop. Place chops in the bottom of the crock pot and cover with bamboo shoots, water chestnuts, and green onions. Combine remaining ingredients together in a bowl and pour over vegetables. Cook on low for 8 hours or until chops are tender and cooked through. Serve hot with cooked rice.

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Some Favorite Camping Recipes

Don't be a slave to boy-scout treats and campfire favorites when you want to have more options for better tasting meals to eat on your outdoor vacations. You don't have to. This is because you may not know it, but there all kinds of great recipes perfect for camping as well as for cooking outside. Depending on how much room you have for food items, how long your trip will be, and the portable cooking equipment available for you to use.

The first recipe I will mention will be a breakfast recipe for your camp-outs. (I figured starting with breakfast would be appropriate.) Just like with your everyday life, when you are camping - your breakfast remains "the most important meal of the day." One of my friends introduced me to the beauty of beer pancakes. A perfect decision for a camper's morning meal, it is like a wonderful merlot with a delicious steak perfectly cooked to your taste. All you need to whip up these babies is a box of plain old pancake mix. There are a couple of mixes you can purchase that require little to no additional ingredients - just a little water. When you get a pancake mix which only requires moisture to turn powder into batter for cooking. "All ya gotta do," he told me, "is put beer in the mix instead of water." Tasty, light and fluffy. Not only are beer pancakes a great idea for camping - but the mix is simple to transport, it not affected by the temperature and the only other thing you need is a little bit of beer. Besides, you usually bring at least some beer along with you anyway, right?

Another breakfast food that is high in protein (just as pancakes are high in carbohydrates) is a boiled egg. These are also simple to make while you are camping. Of course, you will need an egg for this, but the only other thing you will need is a paper cup and a bit of water. Dig a ditch in the center of red coals from your fire. Place the egg in the cup and the cup in the hole. The water will actually boil without the paper burning.

"Foiled again," we always say. You can have meals cooked in foil for lunch and dinner without repeating yourself - even on a long trip. There really are a lot of recipes out there for cooking with basic camping equipment, using foil to aid the heat and the process of cooking without expensive equipment that is difficult to transport. One such recipe (and, as many recipes I will mention) is one of my personal favorites: fish fillets.

We caught some trout on a long, great day of fishing in the sun, and though we threw them all back in - cooking fish in foil is very simple. I had brought some salmon steaks in the cooler, and the first night decided it would be the best time to cook them, before the cooler was too warm. I took the salmon fillets, lightly coated with a mustard/dijon and mayonnaise mix. I wrapped them in foil and cooked them slowly over red hot coals. You want to watch them close so you can turn the fillets frequently. The salmon came out flaky and delicious.

The process will take thirty to forty minutes if you are using salmon steaks a thinner slice will take less time, of course, and the process will be (aside from that) exactly the same. I often check fish perhaps more frequently than I should - but it is easy to accidentally overcook them. You can also cook steaks the same way, or stew, cut into squares along with chunks of yummy vegetables and basted with gravy. You can cook more than hot dogs without a grill.

Let's think about it a moment, in the same manner in which people pick out which kinds of fine wines go best with which kinds of foods. Ask ourselves, what is the very best, easiest, and tastiest kind of food to eat while camping? There are definitely more possibilities out there than you think. As a matter of fact, this article will only be able to cover a few of them. So check out more of my favorite recipes some of my other articles about camping cuisine!

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