This would have to be one of the easiest slow cooker recipes – you don’t even have to brown anything, you just throw it all in the pot!  If you are running short of time you can cook it on high for the first two hours, then on low for four hours – so it will only take six hours to cook instead of eight.  Serves 4.

Slow cooker (crock crooker) Easy Goulash

500g gravy beef, cut into 2cm cubes

2 brown onions, chopped finely

1 green capsicum, chopped

2 cloves garlic, chopped finely

2 cm piece of ginger, chopped finely

400g tin chopped tomatoes -sluice the tin out with 1/4 cup of water and add that as well

1/2 teaspoon cayenne pepper

1 tbsp sweet paprika

Salt and pepper to taste

Place all ingredients in slow cooker.  Cook on low for 8 hours.

Serve with rice, pasta, potatoes – or to be different, with Couscous and Chickpea Salad