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[nolly]

I recently picked up a small, inexpensive crockpot. It's got multiple heat settings and a removable crock; it's not just a dip warmer. The problem is, all the recipes I can find are for much larger crockpots, and I don't have a good enough feel for what's right to be comfortable tweaking them for my 1.5 quart baby crockpot. Are there rules of thumb about liquid proportions? Other things I should know? Right now, I really want things more like "dump X amount of canned soup, Y amount of rice, and a chicken breast, set on low for N hours, eat"; I can get fancy later. WHat I don't know is reasonable values for X, Y, and N, and if that's likely to be an adequate recipe, or if i needs water/milk, or...?

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[koyote.livejournal.com]

1.5 quart is pretty small. you've got 48 ounces in there....

You'll be better off with scratch ingredients, canned soup is already done, crock pot is pointless. once carrot, half a stick of celery, 1/4 cup of rice, 8 ounces of meat, and fill the crock pot up after all that is in with boxed stock. you might need some salt.

If there's trouble with the chopping, make it a 3/4 cup of mixed frozen veggies.

that's a basic starting point.

1/4 cup of rice is going to turn into roughly 2/3 cup of rice. so adjust accordingly if you like a stewish soup.


1/3 cup rice, 4 tablespoons tomato sauce, a 1 pound piece of chuck roast, 1/2 cup water (not totally sure about that, have to watch it the first time and adjust) and some diced vegetable stuff would also make a good one. season that plenty, though.

Most 5 quart crock pot recipes canbe cut to 1/5, then add a pinch here and there depending on ingredients- crock pot cooking is not an exact science like baking. That's by design :)

[nolly.livejournal.com]

I got a small one because there's only one of me and I don't like having a lot of leftovers. Also, it was cheap, and the medium sizes are harder to find.

[koyote.livejournal.com]

no problem with the size. Just making sure you know the limits. one of the problems is you have to keep an inch rim for bubbling, and that affects your quantities more than it would a 2.5 quart