Easy and Healthy Slow Cooker Meals

People appear to believe that healthy crack pot meals are boring and flat. Some likewise believe that preparing them is time-consuming and difficult. This kind of thinking is what we’re here to change. We wish to share with you healthy crack pot meals which you and your family will certainly love.

First, we want to share with you a healthy chicken crock pot meal we name, the chicken cacciatore. In Italian, the word cacciatore is the term for a hunter. In a kitchen setting, this word simply describes a meal prepared “hunter-style” with onions, mushrooms, herbs, tomatoes, bell pepper and sometime wine. And so, in preparing this dish, we need 3 pounds of skinless bone-in chicken thighs, 14 ounce of diced tomatoes with Italian seasoning, 6 ounce of canned tomato paste, half a cup of chicken both. To add more flavor to the dish, bring in a few sliced onions, three cloves of minced garlic, and chopped bell peppers. To complete the dish, we need one-fourth cup of dry red wine. Do not forget the salt and pepper to season it.

As soon as you get every ingredient on the kitchen table, just place all these ingredients in a 3-4 quart slow cooker. Then cover and cook the chicken on low heat for 6-8 hours. It is as easy as that. You can serve this with hot cooked pasta or rice based on what you’re craving for.

One of the healthy crock pot meals which you’ll certainly see flavorful is the slow cooker pork roast and vegetables. This dish is a collaboration of pork sirloin roast with vegetables seasoned with all spice and apple butter.

For this easy-to-make and healthy crock pot meal, we’ll use 3 pounds of boneless pork sirloin roast, four peeled sweet potatoes, three tablespoons of prepared horseradish, a tablespoon of cornstarch and 2 acorn squash. To provide the dish a unique taste, we will need half a cup of apple butter, half a teaspoon of ground allspice, and quarter of a teaspoon of pepper.

To get started with this dish, heat the oil in a heavy skillet. Then put the pork roast. From time to time turn it until all its sides are brown. While you’re cooking the pork roast, cut squash into eight wedges. Make sure that you take out the seeds. Without peeling the sweet potatoes, cut them into chunks and place them in the crock pot. Then, put the browned pork roast on top. The next step is mixing together the apple butter, horseradish, cornstarch, all spice and pepper. Then slowly pour the mixture into the crock pot.

Let it simmer for about seven to nine hours until the pork and vegetables are tender.

So now, we have 2 lovely healthy crock pot meals that would certainly change the way you look at healthy food. If you are thinking about what to serve on a Sunday night, do away with the regular two-minute meals that you could prepare with your microwave. Give your family an opportunity of experiencing these heavenly yet healthy crock pot meals. So why don’t we both go to the kitchen and begin cooking.