Slow Cooker Recipe: Black Bean Chipotle Chili

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Ingredients:

Serves 6 people

•    Ground pork, bulk pork sausage, ground beef, and uncooked bulk turkey sausage/uncooked ground turkey (½ pounds)
•    Chunky salsa (1 jar of 16-ounce)
•    Chicken or beef broth (2 cans of 14-ounce)
•    2 finely chopped canned chipotle chili peppers in adobo sauce
•    Ground cumin (1 teaspoon)
•    Crushed dried oregano (1 teaspoon)
•    Chili powder (2 teaspoons)
•    Diced hash brown potatoes with peppers and onions (2 cups)
•    Washed and drained golden hominy (1 can of 15-ounce)
•    Washed and drained black beans (1 can of 15-ounce)

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Directions:

•    Take a large frying pan and cook ground beef on it until the meat color becomes brown.
•    Drain off the fat and take the meat in a 5-quart slow cooker. Pour broth and salsa and add chipotle peppers, potatoes, hominy, cumin, oregano, and chili powder into the cooker. Stir the meat into these ingredients.
•    Cook the meat for 7-8 hours by setting the cooker at low heat. You can complete the cooking within 3.5-4 hours too by setting the cooker at high heat.

Leave out the meat if you are a vegetarian. Depending on your taste, you can add cheddar cheese, sour cream, and chopped avocado as toppings and serve with tortilla chips. What would you serve with your healthy slow cooker recipe?

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Slow Cooker Meals: Cranberry Pork

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Total time: 4 hours

Yields: 6 servings

Ingredients

16 ounce cranberry sauce

1/3 cup French salad dressing (homemade or readymade)

1 sliced onion

3 pounds boneless pork loin roast

Procedure

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In a medium bowl, mix together cranberry sauce, onion, and salad dressing. Put pork in slow the cooker, and cover with the sauce mixture.

Put the lid, and cook for 8 hours on low, or 4 hours on high. Pork is cooked when meat is tender. Serve with rice and onion rings.

A slow cooker really brings out the best in pork loin, leaving it tender and juicy, and saving you hours in the kitchen. Depending on your mood and the ingredients you have on hand, you can easily tweak the recipe to make it yours. Whatever you choose, you can be sure to come home to a welcoming aroma and an enjoyable meal.

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