CROCKTOBER 2023 | MEATLOAF, CHICKEN & DUMPLINGS, KIELBASA WITH POTATOES & GREEN BEANS

Today I’m sharing 3 recipes that you can set and forget in your slow cooker–meatloaf, chicken & dumplings, and kielbasa with potatoes & green beans! Happy Crocktober!

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MISSISSIPPI POT ROAST:

CHICKEN & STUFFING:

FALL DUMP CAKES:

SWEET PORK TENDERLOIN, TORTELLINI & SAUSAGE SOUP, BREAD PUDDING:

MISSISSIPPI CHICKEN, SMOTHERED PORK CHOPS, CHICKEN CHILI:

CHICKEN TACOS:

MEATLOAF
2 lbs. ground beef
1 c. Italian seasoned breadcrumbs
2 eggs
1 Tbsp. minced onion
1/2 tsp. garlic powder
salt & pepper
1 Tbsp. Worcestershire sauce
SAUCE
1/2 c. ketchup
1 Tbsp. brown sugar
1/4 tsp. garlic powder
1/4 tsp. onion powder
1/2 tsp. Worcestershire sauce

In a large bowl add the beef, breadcrumbs, eggs, onion, garlic powder, Worcestershire sauce. Season with salt & pepper. Mix together until thoroughly combined. Line slow cooker with foil then spray with baking spray. Form the meat mixture into a loaf shape and place inside the slow cooker. In a small bowl stir together the ketchup, brown sugar, garlic powder, onion powder, and Worcestershire sauce. Spread this mixture evenly over the meatloaf. Cover and cook on HIGH for 3 hours. Remove excess fat if desired before transferring meatloaf to cutting board to slice.

CHICKEN & DUMPINGS

Crockpot Chicken and Dumplings

(I used 3 chicken breasts instead of thighs and seasoned with what I had on hand.)

KIELBASA WITH POTATOES & GREEN BEANS
(I doubled the recipe in the video.)
1 lb. kielbasa, cut into 1 inch pieces
1 small onion, diced
1 bag frozen green beans
1.5 lbs. baby yellow potatoes, quartered
1.5 c. chicken broth
salt & pepper
garlic powder

Spray inside of slow cooker with baking spray. Add in the potatoes, onions, green beans, and kielbasa. Season to taste with salt, pepper, and garlic powder. Pour the chicken broth over top. Cover and cook on HIGH for 4 hours.

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Hi everyone and welcome back to Anns Family Recipe it’s my favorite time of year the month of October or ctober as it’s referred to in this neck of the woods anyway today I’m sharing with you three easy and tasty dinner ideas that you can make in your slow cooker I have

Tons of crockpot recipe videos on my YouTube channel so I’m going to link to all of them in my description box below there’s chicken chili there’s my favorite sausage and tortolini soup amazing flavor there there’s even some dessert recipe ideas so make sure after you watch this video you check down in

My description box below for even more delicious recipe ideas if you’re new to my channel don’t forget to subscribe and give this video a thumbs up and let’s get Cooking I had never tried making a meatloaf in a crock pot before and I wanted to so a lot of the recipes that I found online recommended lining the inside of your crock pot with foil and then spraying it just so that nothing sticks and also it’s easier to remove

The meatloaf when it’s finished cooking for my meatloaf mixture I started with it was about 2 and 1/2 lbs of 8020 ground beef and then to that I added in Italian seasoned bread crumbs so these have a little bit of dried herbs and like garlic powder in them I think um

Which just gives it a little extra flavor so I added in one cup of those seasoned bread crumbs along with two eggs to help bind everything together and then for seasonings I added in I had about a teaspoon left of minced onion I would have added in more like a

Tablespoon my kids don’t really like when I dice up an actual onion and put it in they don’t like that texture but the minced onion gives it a good onion flavor and then I also added in some garlic powder salt and pepper and a good Splash about a tablespoon of wish to

Shear sauce which adds a nice savory flavor to the meatloaf mixture then I like to use my hands to incorporate everything together and then I just transferred all of this into a loaf shape into my crock Pot comment below do you prefer a ketchup based sauce or a gravy with your meatloaf I grew up with ketchup so I decided to make a little ketchup based topping for this meat loaf just to add a little extra flavor because usually if I’m baking a meatloaf in the oven I wrap

It in bacon which gives it incredible flavor and just adds an extra layer but I did not want to put bacon in the crock pot because I knew it wouldn’t get crispy on the outside so for this sauce I used probably a half a cup of ketchup

A heaping tablespoon of brown sugar a little bit of garlic powder and onion powder and then a splash of wish air sauce and then stirred that all together and then I spread that evenly over the surface of my meatloaf Then I put the lid on and set my slow cooker for 3 hours on High I wanted to double check that my Meatloaf was fully cooked through so I just inserted a meat thermometer really quickly after 3 hours and it was over 160 grease so I knew it was fine inside even though I had that foil in there to easily transfer that Meatloaf onto my

Cutting board there was so much rendered fat it was going to be a mess so I grabbed my turkey baster and just use that to remove some of the excess drippings that were in the crock pot and then I could more easily transfer it without things spilling everywhere onto

My cutting board and I sliced into this it was so tender I really thought that making a meatloaf in a crockpot would have a wonderful texture and it definitely did it was so tender and moist it had had great flavor retained a lot of the moisture um something that I

Really like is that a lot of the fat renders out when I bake my meatloaf and that fat starts to burn and smoke as the meatloaf is still cooking and that didn’t happen here in the crock pot but I do highly recommend this technique it was easy had great flavor and

Texture next up I’m making a super cozy version of chicken and dumplings so I’m starting by preparing my vegetables I’m peeling and dicing up two big carrots and then one small Onion I sprayed the inside of my crock pot so nothing would stick and then added in two and 1 half Frozen boneless skinless chicken breast I season these with some salt and pepper and then I use garlic powder parsley and Thyme for some extra flavor I also added in a couple of bay

Leaves now you could also use about a teaspoon of poultry seasoning and if you have Sage or Rosemary you can throw those in with the individual seasonings whatever you have in your pantry just to add a little extra flavor to the dish next I prepared 1 and 3/4 cup of chicken

Broth and I’ve shown this before I like to use this chicken base that I get at Sam’s Club a little bit goes a long way there’s really rich concentrated flavor here so you just need about a teaspoon or two added into some hot water and then you have some chicken broth and I

Mix this with one can of cream of chicken soup now I will say the chicken base is not low sodium so thinking back I probably wouldn’t have added any additional salt when I was seasoning the chicken because the end result was a little bit salty but not unbearably so

But I think the original recipe called for low sodium chicken broth and I wasn’t thinking when I added this chicken base along with salting my meat so that’s just a little note I have here I added in the onions and carrots and poured the liquid over top of the

Mixture and then I covered my crock pot and set it on high for 3 hours After 3 hours of cooking I used two forks to break up the chicken breast a little bit I didn’t completely shred it I wanted larger chunks of meat throughout the broth and then I added in a half a cup of frozen peas and some biscuit topping I also removed the bay leaves at

This time you probably only need one but mine were all scraggly broken up so I thought two was the equivalent of one nice bay leaf just so you know for the biscuit topping I just used store-bought jumbo Buttermilk Biscuits popped it open and then I quartered each

Biscuit with scissors then I took each little piece and rolled it into a ball and then placed those evenly over the top of the chicken mixture I put the lid back onto my slow cooker and cook this for an additional hour on High this dish made my whole house smell amazing it was the perfect dinner for a cold and dreary fall day it was very comforting and I actually really enjoyed the texture of the biscuits on top the soup underneath had great flavor and when I served it up I just sprinkled a

Little bit of parsley over top as a garnish and everybody really enjoyed this one the final dinner I’m putting together in my crock pot is Kil basa with potatoes and green beans I’m starting here by dicing up one onion I doubled my recipe because I wanted dinner for two nights this

Particular week so I purchased two one and a half PB bags of these baby yellow potatoes I thought using a smaller potato would be nice because I wouldn’t have to peel any of them you could definitely use regular baking potatoes though but I think it’d be better if you

Peeled them just texture-wise these baby potatoes get nice and creamy as they cook so I really like them in this dish I quartered these and sprayed the inside of my crock pot and then added the potatoes and onions into It next I diced up my kobasa sausage so like I said doubling the recipe so I used two whole sausage links and I just cut these into about 1in pieces but you can make the pieces larger or smaller whatever you Like next I added in one bag of frozen green beans you’ll see in a minute I do add two bags I’m really testing the limits of my slow cooker here but before I added in that second bag of green beans I added some seasonings so some salt garlic powder and black pepper and

Then I did add the rest of the green Beans lastly I added in three cups of chicken broth I just poured this all over the top put the lid on and and set this on high for 4 hours at about the halfway point so 2 hours in I made my best attempt to stir this together a little bit just to get

Those seasonings mixed in then I put the lid back on and let it finish cooking so here are my final thoughts on this dish first of all the house smelled great second of all my kids really enjoyed this in my opinion it was a little bit Bland but it worked out well

Because that actually made it quite kid-friendly one of my kids separated the kabasa out and dipped it into ketchup another one made it into a Kil basa sandwich I added some black pepper to mine and served all of them with a side of applesauce I think this would be

A great dish to have to serve a crowd for an October Fest theme get together I dipped my sausage into some spicy brown mustard and it tasted great so this was definitely a crow pleaser and very very easy to put together thank thank you so much for joining me here today in my

Kitchen for some cozy crockpot recipes happy crocktober everybody