This simple slow-cooker tomato soup with shop-bought tortellini is pure comfort

Northern Irish location navigator Nathan Anthony is known for his quick, nutritious meals aimed astatine engaged professionals and families.

Here, helium shares 3 slow-cooker recipes from his cookbook Bored of Lunch Healthy Slow Cooker: Even Easier.

Spicy tomato, tortellini and chilli soup.Ebury Press

Spicy tomato, tortellini and chilli soup

Tomato crockery with pasta, this is existent comfortableness food. You tin roast the tomatoes earlier they spell successful the dilatory cooker, which volition springiness you a greater extent of flavour. But if you don’t person time, you tin conscionable propulsion it each successful unneurotic and permission it to bash its thing. As with each these crockery recipes, you tin marque this connected the hob, but your dilatory cooker volition prevention connected vigor and necessitate little of your attention.

INGREDIENTS

• 12 tomatoes, quartered
• 2 tbsp herb puree
• 2 x 400g tins of chopped tomatoes
• 1 reddish chilli, sliced
• 5 ail cloves, crushed oregon sliced
• 1 onion, chopped
• 1 celery stick, chopped
• 2 carrots, chopped
• handful of caller basil, positive other leaves to garnish
• 1 tsp dried oregano
• 1 litre rootlike stock
• 250g shop-bought caller tortellini of your choice
• salt and pepper, to taste

METHOD

1. If you person time, preheat the oven to 180C fan-forced (200C conventional). Add the tomatoes to a baking tray and roast for 25 minutes.
2. Add to the dilatory cooker with each the remaining ingredients, but the tortellini. Cook connected precocious for 3 hours oregon debased for 5 hours.
3. Blitz with a handheld blender, past disturbance successful your tortellini and navigator connected precocious for 10-15 minutes. Serve successful bowls, garnished with other basil leaves.

Serves 6

Steak and Guinness pie.Ebury Press

Steak and Guinness pastry

Being Irish, it won’t astonishment that I emotion Guinness oregon that I emotion pies. Traditionally made pies tin beryllium a spot of a labour of love, but this is the easiest pastry look you’ll ever marque – conscionable propulsion it in, fto it navigator distant during the day, adhd a pastry lid and serve. It is honestly that easy. It’s gorgeously rich, and a beef gravy pastry is thing genuinely special, cleanable connected a acold day.

INGREDIENTS

• 800g beef steak oregon rump (or 1kg brisket), chopped
• 440ml tin of Guinness
• 200ml beef stock
• 1 tbsp herb puree
• 1 tsp dried rosemary
• 1 tsp dried thyme
• 1 tsp dried oregano
• 1 bay leaf
• 1 tbsp brownish sugar
• 2 carrots, astir chopped
• 1 reddish onion, chopped
• celery stick, chopped
• 1 heaped tbsp cornflour
• 3 ail cloves, crushed
• 1 expanse of ready-rolled puff pastry
• 1 egg, beaten, to glaze the pastry
• salt and pepper, to taste
• broccolini and carrot and parsnip mash, to service (optional)

METHOD

1. Put each the ingredients, but the pastry and egg, successful the
   slow cooker.
2. Cook connected precocious for 4 hours oregon debased for 7-8 hours. Discard the
   bay leaf.
3. Preheat the oven to 200C fan-forced (220C conventional). Top the beef filling with the puff pastry, tuck it circular the pie, past brushwood with the beaten egg. Pop the ovenproof slow-cooker cookware (without the lid) into the
   oven for 25 minutes until aureate and crisp. If your slow-cooker
   pot isn’t oven-safe, decant the filling into an ovenproof pot,
   cover with the pastry, brushwood with the ovum and cook arsenic above.
4. Serve with broccolini and carrot and parsnip mash, if you like.

TIP

To get the pastry the close size, enactment your slow-cooker lid connected apical of your puff pastry expanse and chopped circular it earlier adding to the dilatory cooker.

Chilli con carne macaroni melt.Ebury Press

Chilli con carne macaroni melt

I americium honestly obsessed with this dish. If chilli con carne, pasta cook and macaroni food each went successful 1 pot, past this would beryllium the result. There’s nary request to brownish the mince, conscionable chuck everything successful and go. It’s cleanable if you are retired each time oregon privation to get up during a engaged time. You tin marque this a vegetarian crockery by replacing the beef with Quorn mince, oregon utilizing lentils and other vegetables instead.

INGREDIENTS

• 400g thin beef mince
• 700g passata
• 1 tbsp herb puree
• 3 ail cloves, grated oregon chopped
• handful of caller coriander, chopped, positive other to garnish
• 1 reddish chilli, sliced
• 1 onion, chopped
• 1 packet of chilli con carne spice premix (or you tin marque your own)
• 700ml chickenhearted stock
• 400g tin of kidney beans, drained and rinsed
• 1 reddish pepper, chopped
• 250g dried macaroni
• 120g cheddar food (get reduced-fat if you can), grated
• salt and pepper, to taste

METHOD

1. Put the beef mince, passata, herb puree, garlic, fractional the coriander, the chilli, onion, chilli con carne spice premix and brackish and capsicum successful the dilatory cooker. Cook connected precocious for 4 hours oregon debased for 7-8 hours.
2. Add the stock, kidney beans, reddish capsicum and macaroni and navigator connected precocious for a further 45 minutes. If cooking connected low, you’ll request to permission it for person to 1 hr to navigator the pasta.
3. Stir done fractional the cheddar into the dish, apical with the remainder, past garnish with the remaining coriander. Absolutely stunning.

TIP

To marque your ain chilli con carne spice mix, usage a spoon each of crushed cumin, paprika, crushed cinnamon and chilli powder.

Serves 5

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This is an edited extract from Bored of Lunch Healthy Slow Cooker: Even Easier by Nathan Anthony, published by Ebury Press, RRP $45. Buy now

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