When you want to treat yourself to something tasty, recipes for the multicooker will help. In the “smart pan” you can cook many different dishes, bake pies, casseroles, muffins and bread. Prepare dishes in a slow cooker faster than usual and taste superior to traditional ones. Forget about pots, skillet and oven! The slow cooker will do everything by itself, save you from dirty dishes and save time.

First courses in the multicooker

Soups are the main course of the daily diet. First courses are considered very useful, as they are prepared on the basis of meat, fish or vegetable broth. In a slow cooker, soups are rich and quickly cooked. Thanks to the heating function, even after a while they retain the taste of a freshly prepared dish.

To diversify the diet, in the multicooker you can cook pickles, borscht, hodgepodge, vegetable, diet and mashed soups. There are no restrictions - full scope for imagination.

For novice housewives, cooking borsch seems a complicated undertaking, but using a slow cooker to cook it is simple.

For borscht you will need:

  • meat - a third kilo;
  • potatoes - 3 pcs.;
  • 1 onion;
  • 1 carrot;
  • cabbage - half a fork;
  • tomato paste - a couple of spoons;
  • oil - 1 tbsp. l .;
  • greenery;
  • salt pepper;
  • beets - 30 g.

Cooking process:

  1. All vegetables must be cleaned and washed. Chop the cabbage, dice the potatoes and chop the onion finely. Grind carrots with beets on a grater.
  2. Pre-soak the meat in water. There are no principles regarding his choice - it can be pork, beef or chicken.
  3. Pour oil into the multicooker bowl and turn on the "Frying" mode. Place vegetables in it for dressing borsch, fry them, add tomato, spices and mix everything.
  4. Put meat and potatoes on top of the dressing, fill everything with water to a certain level, close the lid and turn on the “Soup” function.
  5. 5 minutes before the end of the regime add cabbage, greens, salt and spices to the broth.
  6. Wait for readiness, after which borsch can be served.

To cook a diet borsch in a slow cooker, you should exclude meat from the recipe, put the rest of the products in a bowl and turn on the "Cooking" mode for an hour.

Popular second course recipes

It is a mistake to believe that a slow cooker serves mainly for cooking stews, cereals or stews. Thanks to experiments with recipes, you will understand that this is a delusion. In fact, the main dishes in it are distinguished by a special taste and originality.

 

You can cook anything from fried meatballs to chicken in sauce and steam fish. Using a stand for steaming, it is easy to cook two dishes at the same time.

This list can be continued for a long time, we offer you to try an amazing recipe for chicken fillet with pasta and vegetables.

Required Products:

  • chicken fillet - 1 pc.;
  • bulb;
  • carrot;
  • celery root - 120 g;
  • pasta for pasta - 450 g;
  • seasoning for chicken;
  • butter;
  • 180 g of cheese.

Cooking process:

  1. Cut the fillet into slices and marinate in seasoning, salt.
  2. Add oil to the multicooker bowl, lightly fry marinated chicken on it.
  3. Take out the meat, pour water in its place. It is not necessary to wash the cup, because all the most delicious is left in it.
  4. Place the steaming stand. Place chicken and chopped vegetables on it. Turn on cooking or stewing.
  5. Wait until the water boils, carefully remove the stand with meat and vegetables.
  6. Put the pasta in water, add salt and stir with a spatula.
  7. Replace the food stand and continue cooking until cooking is complete.
  8. After cooking, drain the water from the pasta.

Serving diet chicken dishes is better with boiled vegetables. The taste and aroma of this dish is indescribable!

What to cook with minced meat

Meat, chicken or minced fish allows you to cook fast, and most importantly, a variety of dishes. If you do this in a slow cooker, you will hardly need time to cook them.

Thanks to the functions “Frying”, “Stewing” and “Baking”, you can diversify the diet by preparing:

  • steam, fried, baked meatballs or meatballs;
  • cabbage rolls or dolma;
  • stuffed peppers;
  • navy pasta;
  • meat casseroles;
  • pies and pies;
  • lasagna;
  • dumplings, manti, ravioli;
  • minced meat rolls.

More materials: dumplings in the microwave

You can endlessly list meat dishes. All that can be done with it in the oven and on the stove, the slow cooker will perform with ease.

And for starters, we attach you to familiarize yourself with the recipe for dolma in grape leaves.

For this dish you will need:

  • ground beef - 450 g;
  • bulb;
  • spices for stuffed cabbage;
  • salt to taste;
  • 1 tbsp. l tomato paste;
  • 1.5 tbsp. l sour cream;
  • greenery.

Cooking principle:

  1. Prepare young grape leaves, pour boiling water over them, having previously cut the tails.
  2. Add finely chopped onions, salt and spices to the minced meat, mix everything well.
  3. Remove the leaves from boiling water. When they have cooled, stuff them with minced meat in the same way as cabbage rolls.
  4. Cover the bottom of the multicooker with grape leaves, spread dolma tightly on top.
  5. Pour the workpieces with water so that it lightly covers them, add tomato with sour cream, salt, herbs and spices.
  6. Close the lid, turn on the "Extinguishing" mode, wait until ready.

Cooking lean dishes with a slow cooker

During religious holidays, it is customary to fast, and a slow cooker helps to cope with this task better than anyone. She “knows how” to cook lean food and steamed dishes. The "Pilaf" mode allows you to cook hearty cereals on the eve of Lent, cook vegetables, casseroles, stews. Among all the variety, one lean recipe can be recommended: pilaf with pumpkin and raisins.

Required Products:

  • rice - 360 g;
  • pumpkin - 350 g;
  • 2 onions;
  • raisins - 1 tbsp. l .;
  • vegetable oil - 35 ml;
  • seasoning for pilaf.

Cooking process:

  1. Rinse thoroughly with rice. Drain the water from it.
  2. Add vegetable oil to the multicooker bowl and turn on the "Frying" mode. Add the onion sliced ​​in half rings to the oil.
  3. While it is fried, you need to chop the pumpkin into strips. Add it to the onion, bring the vegetables to a golden color.
  4. Pour rice, raisins, salt, spices on top and pour everything with water.
  5. Cook the food in the "Pilaf" mode until the end of cooking.

We cook healthy dishes for a couple

Steamed food is considered not only healthy, but also dietary. It is often prepared for children, sick people and those who adhere to proper nutrition.

The slow cooker perfectly copes with the duty of a double boiler, its only drawback is the smaller volume. You can steam anything you like: vegetables, meat, fish, mushrooms, fruits.

It turns out very tasty, for example, steamed potatoes with spicy dressing.

Required Products:

  • potatoes - 460 g;
  • olive oil - 2 tbsp. l .;
  • sprigs of basil;
  • 2 to 3 cloves of garlic;
  • seasoning for potatoes.

Cooking process:

  1. In the "Steamer" mode, cook potatoes chopped into cubes.
  2. While boiling potatoes, you need to do cooking spicy dressing. Finely chop the garlic with basil with a knife, add olive oil and spices, mix everything well.
  3. Remove the potatoes, salt and pour the sauce.

From potatoes in a smart pan

There are many options for dishes with potatoes. In a slow cooker, it is fried, boiled, baked and mashed.

Try cooking with a slow cooker:

  • boiled and fried potatoes;
  • baked with bacon and classic fries;
  • potato casserole with minced meat;
  • with mushrooms or meat;
  • in foil;
  • stewed in sour cream;
  • in a rustic way;
  • stew and fries with potatoes and much, much more.

Let's look at one popular recipe: fried potatoes with mushrooms in a slow cooker

Required Products:

  • potatoes - up to one kilo;
  • mushrooms - 280 g;
  • 1 onion;
  • butter - 60 g;
  • spices for potatoes.

Cooking principle:

  1. Dry the peeled and chopped potatoes on a napkin.
  2. Grind mushrooms, onions, place them in the thicket of the multicooker along with butter.
  3. Pour potatoes, start frying. Stir the products in the process, and near the end of the preparation, season them with salt and pepper.

The best meat dishes in the multicooker

Meat in a slow cooker can be cooked any and in all possible ways:

  • stew with dried fruits and vegetables;
  • fry in whole and portioned;
  • bake shank, ribs, chicken wings, fillets;
  • cook in foil or steamed;
  • cook jelly, make pastes and soufflé;
  • bake meat rolls, boiled pork and make ham;
  • bake pies and pies with meat filling, etc.

Against the background of ordinary dishes for every day, meat rolls with walnuts and garlic will look very advantageous.

Required Products:

  • pork tenderloin - 700 g;
  • garlic;
  • 0.5 cups peeled nuts;
  • vegetable oil - 30 ml;
  • 2 tbsp. l mayonnaise;
  • bay leaf, salt, spices.

Cooking process:

  1. Cut the slices into layers, beat them with a knife or a hammer.
  2. Grate each slice of meat with salt and seasonings, sprinkle with chopped nuts and chopped garlic.
  3. Roll up the rolls, fry them in a slow cooker, close the lid and continue cooking in the "Extinguishing" mode.

Desserts in a slow cooker

Sweet tooth will appreciate the possibilities of a miracle stove, which even copes with desserts with ease. In it you can bake pies and pies, cook casseroles, muffins, meringues.

If the slow cooker has additional functions, you can cook jam, jams and prepare yoghurts in it.

The easiest option for a quick and healthy dessert is apples baked with cottage cheese.

Required Products:

  • 5 to 6 apples;
  • 230 g of cottage cheese;
  • sugar to taste;
  • butter - a small block.

Cooking process:

  1. Cut apples out of apples and fill them with sweet cottage cheese.
  2. Lubricate the bottom of the multicooker bowl with butter. Put apples on top.
  3. Cook in the “Baking” mode until the fruit is ready.

A slow cooker is a "universal fighter" in the kitchen. She facilitates the work of the hostess and prepares dishes that are in no way inferior to the traditional ones.

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