Layered Slow-Cooker Dinner
Layered Slow-Cooker Dinner with Hong-Kong Chicken, Basil Beans, Honey Carrots AND Baked Potatoes, cooked together but keeping the flavors separate
This post first appeared on my previous blog, Creative and Delicious, which is now merged with With A Blast
How about a complete meal cooked in your slow-cooker ? Not mixed, each on it’s own, with no flavors mixed – including “baked potatoes” !
This is the first time I’ve tried anything close to this Layered Slow-Cooker Dinner and I had no idea what to expect. Disappointed I was not – definitely not!
I think this might even be my new method of cooking. Especially when I do not feel like spending a lot of time in the kitchen, which does happen quite a lot during Summer.
However, I am sure I am not the only one who hates being in the kitchen during Summer !
On the menu we had :
- Hong Kong Chicken
- Baked Potatoes (served with Sour Cream and Spring Onions)
- Sweet Honey Carrots
- Basil Green Beans
I opened the top packages a little halfway through and gave the veggies a little stir using a spoon – so as not to tear the aluminum foil.
Open the top packages a little halfway through and give the veggies a little stir using a spoon – so as not to tear the aluminum foil.
Both vegetables had only enough liquids etc to flavor, other than that it cooked in it’s own juices.
The Potatoes were cooked soft, but still firm.
Delicious combination ! Only one thing, the **Green Beans** were cooked too long, you might want to add them halfway through and not at the beginning.
More Slow-Cooker recipes you might like:
Layered Slow-Cooker Dinner
Layered Slow-Cooker Dinner
Ingredients
HONG KONG CHICKEN:
- 900 gr Chicken Fillets cut in half if large ( 2 pounds )
- 1 cup Coca-Cola original
- 1 TB Soy Sauce
- 1 TB Golden Syrup or Honey
- 1 t Salt
BASIL GREEN BEANS:
- 2 TB Unsalted Butter
- 1 Onion chopped or sliced
- 2 t Garlic crushed
- 2 cups Green Beans
- 1 TB Basil chopped finely
- Salt and Black Pepper to taste
SWEET HONEY CARROTS:
- 1 ½ cups Carrots I use small cubes
- 2 TB Unsalted Butter melted
- 2 TB Honey
- 1 TB Caster Sugar Superfine Sugar
- 1 TB Red Wine Vinegar
- Salt and Pepper to taste
BAKED POTATOES:
- 6 Potatoes medium, scrubbed clean and pierced several times
- 1 TB Olive Oil
- 1 t Coarse Sea Salt
- Sour Cream to serve (optional)
- Spring Onions chopped, to serve (optional)
Instructions
- HONG KONG CHICKEN: Place the Chicken Fillets on the bottom of a large slow-cooker
- Combine the remaining ingredients and pour over the Chicken
- BASIL GREEN BEANS: Saute the Onion and Garlic in the Butter until soft, add the Green Beans and Basil – stir-fry 1 minute
- Remove from heat and season to taste
- Triple fold a large enough piece of aluminum foil – place the Beans in the center and fold all sides upwards (to form a bowl) and then close the tops tightly, so that no juices will leak out – keep aside
- SWEET HONEY CARROTS: Place the Carrots on a triple folded piece of aluminum foil {as per the beans} – fold slightly to resemble a bowl
- Combine the remaining ingredients and pour over the Carrots – close the aluminum foil – keep aside
- BAKED POTATOES: Rub the Potatoes with Olive Oil and sprinkle generously with coarse Sea Salt
- Triple fold a large piece of aluminum foil again – place the Potatoes in the center and fold close
- Gently but tightly folded
How To Layer The Slow-Cooker Dinner:
- 1.) Place the Potato package on top of the Chicken
- 2.) Followed by the packet of Beans (see note in post re Green Beans) and the packet of Carrots
- 3.) All fits nicely in the Slow-Cooker
- 4.) Cover with the lid and cook on HIGH for 4 -5 hours or 7 – 8 hours on LOW
Notes
- Servings are adult sized
Linda, you're bloody amazing. What a fantastic idea. I'm going to do this all the time now. Way to go. I'm featuring this one tomorrow.
Anne xx
Great idea to separate them with foil! Thanks for posting on The Four Seasons Blog Hop! Sandra from Scrumptilicious 4 You!
I LOVE this idea! So trying it! Pinned!!
What an incredible idea, love this! Thanks for sharing on the weekend re-Treat Link Party!
Britni @ Play. Party. Pin.
I love this idea! Our daughter-in-law puts ribs on the crock pot and then later adds corn on the cob wrapped in foil and it turns out great.
Great idea, Linda. Clean up is what bugs me when it comes to working in the kitchen. Layering everything in the crock pot would certainly make clean up easy. I also like that each component is just that–its own component. Usually crock pot meals consist of everything mixed.
Thank you for sharing!
Wow, this great. I’d love it if you’d share this at my link party, going on now! http://acowboylife.blogspot.com/2014/02/friday-favorites-link-party.html
You are so smart, I can't even believe this is possible. This is a great idea!
This looks so good! My crockpot isn't oval, I hope this will all fit. Just so happens I didn't get my thawed chicken cooked today. Good thing, I hadn't read this yet. I came by from Think Tank.
Thanks again for sharing this at Frugal Crafty Home Blog Hop! I'll be featuring it at our next party on Sunday night at 8 Central time!
Thank you for sharing! I'm definitely going to try this. I can see all kinds of variations, too. I love crockpot cooking and the more ideas, the better.
I use my slow cooker a lot but I had no idea I could cook all these things together in it at once. I''m loooking forward to a bit of experimenting!
Hello Linda, dropping in from Michelle's See Ya in the Gumbo. Fantastic put together meal.
I'm SO glad I found this, Linda! Cooking the whole meal in the crock pot is a great time saver! Pinning and definitely trying soon!
This is brilliant!
I'm with Mel! I love this idea and it all looks so good! Please do some more of these layered dinners!! Pinned it and definitely trying it!
I'm so onto this what a freaking fantastic idea love love love it!