The easiest cooked breakfast in the slow cooker
Do you love a cooked breakfast in the morning? But don’t make one often due to the time it takes to make and the clean up afterwards? If so, have you ever thought of using a slow cooker?
If you want to start your day with a hot and hearty breakfast waiting for you when you wake up, use your slow cooker. Most people use their slow cooker for making stews and roasts.
That said, this versatile kitchen appliance can also be used to create a cooked breakfast that will make your mornings easier and taste great too.
If you want to do this, here is the step-by-step process of creating a delicious cooked breakfast in a slow cooker. It makes any extras like potato cakes you enjoy with breakfast easy to cook without pans and frying pans everywhere too!
Gather Your Ingredients
Before you begin, ensure you have all the necessary ingredients to hand. Classic cooked breakfast elements include eggs, sausages and/or bacon, beans, mushrooms and tomatoes.
To make a cooked breakfast for 2-3 people, you will need 6 Sausages, 6 Rashers of Bacon, 400g Tinned Chopped Tomatoes, 400g Baked Beans, 100g Mushrooms (chopped or sliced), 4 Eggs (beaten to make scrambled eggs) and 30g Butter.
Alternative ingredients to try
Tomatoes – instead of chopped tomatoes, you could use peeled plum tomatoes from a can or even fresh cherry tomatoes on a vine.
Baked beans – if you prefer flavoured beans, you could use BBQ beans or similar.
Bacon – whether you choose bacon medallions or rashers is entirely up to you.
Butter isn’t essential; swap this for a spray like Frylight.
Sausages can be as low fat as you choose, and if you choose low-calorie or syn free sausages (if you follow Slimming World), this could be a very healthy meal.
Mushrooms – If you like small button mushrooms or large flat mushrooms, the choice is yours.
Prepare the Slow Cooker
Grease the inside of your slow cooker with a non-stick cooking spray or a bit of oil. This will prevent sticking and make cleanup easier afterwards.
Put the Ingredients into the Slow Cooker
Here are all the tips on how to put the breakfast into the slow cooker to ensure it all cooks well and is perfect for your slow-cooked breakfast!
- Put the beans, mushrooms, tomatoes and eggs into the separate mugs. Season the eggs and tomatoes with a little pepper if desired.
- Add 15g butter to both the eggs and the mushrooms.
- Put the mugs in the centre of the slow cooker.
- Place the sausages vertically around one of the edges of the slow cooker, roll the bacon rashers up and place them vertically around the other side.
Set the Slow Cooker
Put the lid on the slow cooker and set it to low or medium heat, depending on your model’s settings. Let the breakfast cook for about 8-9 hours.
If you’re in a hurry, you can cook your slow cooker breakfast on high for 3-4 hours, but cooking your breakfast slowly will yield the best results.
Avoid Opening the Lid
Resist the temptation to open the slow cooker’s lid frequently while cooking as each time you open it, you release heat, and it will take longer to cook the breakfast – Although if you cook overnight, this will not be an issue.
Check Everything Is Cooked
After the cooking time has passed, ensure the breakfast is cooked to your satisfaction. The eggs should be fully set, and the sausages and bacon should be cooked through.
If you are in doubt, a food thermometer is perfect for ensuring that meat is cooked thoroughly.
Serve your slow-cooked breakfast and enjoy
Pop some bread into the toaster while carefully dishing out the cooked breakfast onto plates, and serve it with your favourite condiments, such as ketchup or hot sauce.
This delicious and nutritious slow-cooked breakfast will be a hit with the entire family.
Enjoying a slow-cooked breakfast on Slimming World
If you follow the Slimming World plan and want to enjoy this type of breakfast for weight loss, you certainly can. If you choose to omit the butter and remove fat from the bacon, then it all comes down to the sausages.
If you choose syn-free sausages, you could make a Slimming World syn-free cooked breakfast with this method. Alternatively, with low-syn sausages, it would be a low-syn cooked breakfast on Slimming World.
In conclusion, making a cooked breakfast in a slow cooker is a fantastic way to simplify your mornings and enjoy a delicious meal.
With minimal effort, you can create a wholesome breakfast loaded with flavour, and you’ll have more time to focus on other tasks while the slow cooker does all the work.
So, set it up the night before, and wake up to the comforting aroma of a perfectly cooked breakfast awaiting you.