If You Don't Slow Cooker Now, You'll Hate Yourself Later
11 Tips for Making Healthy Food in a Slow Cooker To meet our goal of developing healthy recipes with a slow cooker, we needed to find ways of building flavor Without adding extra fat while also packing more hearty vegetables and grains into our recipes. Here's what we learned. Choose the Right Cut and Trim Carefully Once trimmed, cuts like chuck roast, eye-round roast, and blade steaks are good choices when you are trying to Eat healthy, particularly in recipes with a high proportion of vegetables to meat. 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 fat and calories. Pork loin and pork tenderloins are Get Out Your Skillet When recipes are leaner, building a flavorful b ase is key. Browning aromatics, vegetables, and meat generates a Flavorful fond at the bottom of the pan which, when deglazed with wine or broth, provides the basis for a rich sauce. And brow...