slow cooker

[slinky.kate]

googled some recipes for roast chicken in slow cooker,anyone tried it ???

[hc4361]

You can't roast a chicken in a slow cooker, but you can just put a whole chicken in the slow cooker with salt, pepper, herbs if you like, and cook for about 4 hours.
Very nice.

[Giggsie]

yes lovely very tender done it a lot. If you pour off juices when chicken is ready and leave a few minutes it dries up the skin making more like oven done. mmmmmmm

[slinky.kate]

do you put wine or anything in it

[Ratty2E]

Yes I have tried it and it was nice but not a lot better than when cooked in the oven. I cooked it in chicken stock, sage, thyme, onion and lemon, and that made wonderful gravy. Alternatively the lamb, beef and pork joints i do in the slow cooker are much nicer than oven cooked IMO

[slinky.kate]

i was thinking once the chook was ready i could use the juices for a soup base

[sara3]

it's good but the skin will be like rubber.. chuck it in the oven and blast it if you like to eat the skin.

[hc4361]

The juices are very greasy - cooking this way seems to get all the fat out.
I don't put any wine or any fluid in it, unless I'm doing a casserole.

If you intend using the oven for roast potatoes etc you might as well cook it in the oven.

[slinky.kate]

hc,i think i will cook it in the oven

[pastafreak]

I often do a whole,huge chicken in the slow cooker. Season with thyme,black pepper, garlic,olive oil and lemon juice. No other liquid----yummm

[Purple_Popple]

I have a chicken in my slow-cooker as we speak...for dinner this evening.

[pink-kittens]

yes you can roast a chicken in the slow cooker - screw up some foil so it doesn't sit on the bottom of the pan and voila, roasted chook