Your life is busy. You are juggling a career, a family, a home and you are wondering prepare meals while getting other things done. Slow cooking is the answer and it can be done in your home oven. You don't have to buy a slow cooker. You may have all the supplies right in your kitchen.
Instructions
Preparation
1. Make sure your meat and vegetables are all washed and ready for cooking. Season the meat with your spices or follow your slow cooker recipe for preparing the ingredients.
2. Turn oven on. Set temperature to 200 degrees.
3. Place a piece of in the bottom of your roasting pan or heavy pot.
4. Place your meat in the center of the pot and then the vegetables around the meat. Add water or other liquid (wine works nicely or a combination of vegetable juice and water). the liquid just covers the meat and vegetables. Don't overflow the pot.
5. Cover the contents of the pot with another piece of .
6. Cover the pot with the right lid. Make sure lid is tight. Place the pot on the center top shelf of the oven.
Cooking
7. Cooking time is roughly seven hours (depends on type of meat and size). Check the pot around four hours into the process. Check the water level and look for bubbling and any burning. Meat and vegetables should be cooking, not burning. Slight bubbling is normal.
8. Turn the pot 180 degrees after checking the pot. Check the temperature of your oven with a gauge to make sure it is still at 200 degrees.
9. After the seventh hour is up, open pot and slowly slice a piece of the meat and check for doneness. Meat should be flowing clear liquids at this point.
10. If doneness is not to your likening, place pot back in oven and continue cooking for the next hour. Vegetables should not be mushy but soft and ready to eat.
11. Once done, let meat set in pot for at least five minutes before serving. Enjoy!
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