Instead of cholent?

elaela

Fri, Aug 24 2012, 6:32 am

chilli con carne:
fry ground meat with jalapeno and cayenne and different spices.
add red beans, sweet corn and salt, cover with water (some like to add tomato paste, I personally dont)and let simmer for about 40 minutes.
put into crockpot , ste on low and serve shabbos lunch with white bread, rice or tacos.

Mrs Bissli

Fri, Aug 24 2012, 8:29 am

You can do stuffed cabbages in a crockpot. Also meatballs (can be in broth or in tomato sauce). Serve with rice.

Very similar but slightly more elegant is stuffed vegetables (mehsi). Cut courgettes in 3inch length, hollow out the centre with an apple corer BUT leave one side bottom intact. (You're basically making a small cup.)
Don't throw away the scooped flesh, add to soup or rice, or sautee separately. Fill with mixture of ground meat (lamb/beef, or turkey/beef, season with salt, pepper, paprika, cinnamon. Crushed up mint leaves optional), finely chopped onion, rice (washed and pre-soaked). If using meat/onion/rice instead of meat/onion, stuff vegetables only loosely. Place them on bottom of crockpot, pour diluted tomato sauce. You can stuff red/yellow peppers (don't cut in half, but scoop out the top bit and seeds with white membrane).

French onion soup is very nice--you can add small bits of meat if you want.

Pot roast comes out really nice cooked overnight. I prefer to sear the meat (sprinkle salt, pepper, generous amount of paprika) first. Layer the bottom of crock pot with sliced onions, carrots, celery. Cover 1/2 of meat with dry red wine (don't worry, alcohol evaporates) and a bit of onion soup mix.

I know you said you prefer meat not chicken, but I posted recipe for tebeet which is typical shabbat lunch in Iraq. Also you can do biryani style rice and meat casserole. The trick is to measure water (1.25x to 1.5x of rice) and soak rice for 1/2hr, add generous amount of chopped onions sauteed in oil (oil gives nice crusty bottom and avoids rice gettig stuck). Season lightly with salt, a bit of curry powder or turmeric, cardamon pods (optional but makes the rice really aromatic). You can add chicken/lamb/beef pieces.

Mommastuff

Fri, Oct 26 2012, 10:01 am

MaBelleVie wrote:

seeker wrote:

MaBelleVie wrote:

Not really like cholent at all, actually. It's just stew. I wouldn't start it so early either. If you want you can prepare it all in the crockpot and keep it in the fridge. Then turn it on right before you light candles. I guess it ends up being like 16 hours or so.

I thought it has to be cooked before shabbos? I don't start so early, usually about 2 hours before Shabbos.

Either totally raw, or 2/3 cooked I think... But check with your authority.

please, please, please someone let me know a source for this! Where does it say that you can put in raw meat right before shabbos? I learned this years ago don't know the source.