Slow Cooker: Do You Really Need It? This Will Help You Decide!
To fulfill our goal of developing healthy recipes with a slow cooker, we needed to find ways of building flavor Without adding excess fat while also packing more hearty vegetables and grains into our recipes. Here's what we learned. Choose the Appropriate Cut and Trim Carefully Once trimmed, cuts like chuck roast, eye-round roast, and blade steaks are good choices when you're trying to Eat healthy, especially in recipes with a high proportion of vegetables to meat. Chicken is a great choice, too, and we Used boneless, skinless breasts, bone-in breasts, and meaty chicken thighs; make sure to remove the skin from Bone-in breasts and thighs, which will drastically reduce calories and fat. Especially lean when trimmed, though we leave a 1/8-inch fat cap on pork loins for taste. When recipes are leaner, building a flavorful base is key. Browning aromatics, vegetables, and meat generates a Flavorful fond at the bottom of the pan that, when deglazed with wine or broth, provides the fo...