Slow Cooking Recipes

I never appreciated slow cooking recipes until I started a family. It got even tougher after the kids started in school and then came after school activities. We were exhausted and the thought of coming home to cook a meal was less than exciting.

Not satisfied with traditional slow cooking recipes, I've taken recipes from my grandmother's kitchen and adapted them to the crock pot. If she were here today, she'd never believe how terrific albondigas can turn out.

Albondigas

INGREDIENTS

2 lbs. lean hamburger
1/4 cup breadcrumbs
2 carrots finely chopped
2 celery stalks sliced
1 med br onion chopped
16 oz Coyote Trail Enchilada Sauce
1 egg
1/2 cup long grain rice
14 oz can whole tomatoes
3 (14 oz) cans beef stock

In mixing bowl
Add hamburger, breadcrumbs, carrots, egg
onion, and Enchilada Sauce
Form by hand into small meatballs
NOTE: Can be made ahead and refrigerated

In a Slow Cooker
Add celery, tomatoes, stock, salt and pepper to taste
Gently add meatballs and cook on low for 6 hours

Serve with rice, beans and warm tortillas
Serves 6 people

Make Tortilla Soup

Tortilla soup is one of the most perfect slow cooking recipes. Use a crock pot or a dutch oven, this recipe for tortilla soup uses the ingredients that made the southwest famous. What are they? Chicken of course, but this popular meal also includes Fire Roasted Frozen Green Chile

You can also learn how to make Tortilla Soup

Coyote Garlic Chicken

Didn't you know that garlic is good for you?

INGREDIENTS

1 small, whole chicken
30 cloves of garlic
Good News-Don't peel the garlic.

Clean and dry chicken

Place garlic under skin around entire chicken
Rub entire chicken with generous amounts of Coyote Trail Adovada Sauce

Place in Crock Pot on low for 4 hours
Drain fat and pour remaining Adovada Sauce over chicken
cook for 1 hour

Serve with white rice
Note: Garlic will slip out of skin and is excellent on pita chips.

Chile Verde

Do you think a bowl of chile verde might do the trick after a long day at the office? This southwest staple uses green chile (of course), but the chile is not canned chile. It comes from the southern New Mexico region where chile is king.

Read about green chile and learn how to make chile verde like the authentic cooks make it in the southwest. This is one of my favorite slow cooking recipes