Cooking

If you have a slow cooker, cooking can be done with minimal preparation time, using cuts of meat that are often tough for other methods.

Note that food from the slow cooker does not look very appetizing if it is served as is. The taste and convinience, however make up for it. If you want, you can use garnishing to make the dish look better on the plates.

Ingredients

You do not need any cooking fat for this dish, which makes it the more healthy.

Fast, tasty and healthy is a rare combination. One thing I always looked for is tender and flavorful meat dishes. If it is dry or tough, it does not matter how it tastes.

One technique to make the meat tender, is to use a combination of pan grilling and steam sautee. This is the technique used by the late chef Pasquale Carpino to make a four course meal in less than 25 minutes!

Here, I describe this technique, combined with my own experimenting and variations of that technique.

Adding broth to many recipes is sometimes the most important key to their success. Of course, you can buy ready made broth in tetra pack, or cubes from any supermarket. However, you do not have control over the taste and unhealthy ingredients (e.g. fat and salt) when you do so.

Therefore, making broth of stock at home and freezing them into cubes is a good alternative, both for health and taste.