Slow cooker Greek-style butter bean and potato casserole

I’m not known for my cooking skills, but even I have managed to successfully produce this Greek-style butter bean and potato casserole from the new Morphy Richards slow cooker cookbook. It takes just 15 minutes to prepare the ingredients, and then you just leave it to cook for four hours. It’s a great recipe for a cold winter evening and great with a chunky bread roll. (Serves 6).

Ingredients

• 4 tbsp olive oil
•  1 mild Spanish onion
•  4 garlic cloves, crushed
•  200 ml red wine
•  400 g white potatoes, diced
• 100g turnip, thinly sliced
•  2 x 410 g cans butter beans, drained and rinsed
•  2 x 400 g cans chopped tomatoes 
•  Pinch of paprika
•  1 bay leaf
•  2 tbsp chopped flat-leaf parsley

Method

1. Heat half the oil in a large saucepan over a high heat and cook the onions for about 5 minutes. Stir in the garlic and add the red wine. Let it bubble for a few minutes to deglaze the pan. Season and transfer to the slow cooker. Add the potatoes, turnip and butter beans.

2. Add all the remaining ingredients and mix. Season and cook for 4 hours on the high setting and 8 hours on the low.

The recipe is so simple that your children will be able to help, which is an added bonus. We cooked the dish in the Flavour Savour Digital Slow Cooker that we were sent as part of the Morphy Richards Innovators Scheme.

It is incredibly easy to use and with a capacity of 4.5 litres it is large enough to cook a meal for the whole family. It has three cooking settings – browning, fast stew and slow cook, which are all accessible via its digital interface. I particularly liked its digital countdown timer plus the fact that it is easy to store, especially as we do not have a large kitchen. I was also impressed with its keep-warm function which keeps food hot in the pan  for up to 2 hours. The pan is also hob-proof so can also be used on gas or electric cookers. It comes with a clear lid with cool-touch handle so you can peer inside and check on your cooking with the minimum of fuss.

I absolutely love the product and simply can’t fault it. It retails at £89.99.

Are you a dab hand in the kitchen? Do your friends compliment you on your home-cooking skills? Can you prepare wholesome, nutritious food on a budget? Then why not enter the Home Made Cook of the Year 2011? Morphy Richards are looking for some ‘Home Made Heroes’ and there are some great prizes on offer. Visit Home Made Cook of the Year 2011 for further details.

Comments

[Ali]

Just saw this on the BAM daily as it's not dropped into my inbox yet! and I thought, hang on a sec can this be the Rosie that claims she can't cook!!! Looks totally delicious and one I will try, yum yum yum :-) x

[Midlife Singlemum]

Yum - I always wondered what those slow cookers could be used for it you don't eat meat. Now I know.

[notsupermum]

Just for second there I thought you had a recipe on your blog. I must have been seeing things.

[Rosie Scribble]

Seriously Ali, I really can't cook. This has to be the easiest recipe I've found yet! Beats my usual speciality of beans on toast!

[Rosie Scribble]

Rachel, most of the recipes I've found have been meat. It's taken a while to find a vegetarian dish, but now I have I think I'll keep on cooking. x

[Rosie Scribble]

A recipe on my blog? No. That's never going to happen. :)

[Mary]

Turnip? it says add potatoes, TURNIP and butter beans... what turnip? did you mean tomatoes?? I'm confused.

[Rosie Scribble]

My apologies. I forgot to include the 100g of turnip to the ingredients as we didn't use it in our recipe. (We don't like turnip). I've now added it in.