Recipe Idea: Easy Slow Cooker Potatoes
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In the summer, I try to avoid using the stove as much as possible. I love my slow cooker for this reason! Not only can I do my cooking while I’m busy doing other things, but I can also avoid heating up the house.
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Easy Slow Cooker Potatoes
- 1/4 cup butter or margarine ($0.80)
- 1 can of cream of mushroom soup ($0.50)
- 6 medium potatoes ($0.75 – I bought massive numbers of potatoes on sale…)
- 2 tbsp of fresh or 1 tbsp of dried parsley
- 1 tsp paprika (<$0.10)
- grated cheese ($1)
- salt and pepper to taste (<$0.10)
Peel, wash and thinly slice potatoes. If you want to keep the skin on, that’s cool too. Take some of your butter and grease the inside of your slow cooker. Then, begin adding the potatoes by layering them in the slow cooker. After each potato-worth of slices, sprinkle some flour, a bit of salt and pepper, and some parsley and paprika. When you run out of potatoes, just sprinkle the remaining herbs on liberally. You may not need all of the flour. Finally, add the can of cream of mushroom soup.
Cook on low for 4 hours or high for 2 hours. When it’s finished, top it with the grated cheese and serve.
Servings: 5
Cost per serving: Around 60 cents a serving!
Frugal hack: It’s pretty frugal. Just remember to use potatoes and cream soup that you buy on sale!
Feeling adventurous? You can add lots of interesting ingredients to this dish and make it taste completely different! Try using a different kind of cheese – how about Edam or smoked applewood? Perhaps a creamy cheese and a sprinkle of dill. You can also add a meat, like ham and have an entire meal – just add a side of veggies. You can also use different root vegetables – yams or taro for example – to get a different flavour.
This sounds and looks awesome. I wish I still had a slow cooker, but I let my ex take it. Keep it up and I’m gonna have to invite myself over for some of your cooking lol.
Well, you’re welcome any time, but you should totally get a new slow cooker. So handy for lazy cooking.
This looks AMAZING! Love my slow cooker. Love cheesy potatoes. Have cream of mushroom in my cabinet. I’m on it.
Excellent!
This looks awesome. Might have to go for a long run the next day though. I love using the slow cooker in the summer because it saves the house from getting hot by using the oven.
Thanks Sean! That’s a big reason why I use the slow cooker too. The apartment just gets too damn stuffy and hot with the oven on.
I love this dish! I just bought some potatoes the other day. Maybe I will make it again too.
Mmm that looks so yummy! I’m going to have to bust out my slow cooker to give this one a try!