Slow Cooker Seafood Recipes

Slow Cooker Seafood Recipes

Seafood and fish can be cooked in slow cookers but due to the delicate nature of the flesh, seafood tend to take a much shorter time of 2-5 hours. Make sure you serve your seafood dish as soon as its ready to avoid drying out.

One of my favorite seafood slow cooker recipes are for chowder where the flavours are really enhanced by the slow cooking process.

General Slow Cooker Tips

• One hour on HIGH is equal to two hours on LOW.
• The LOW setting is about 77C, and the HIGH setting is about 88-93C. Note that both of these temps are well above the minimum safe temperature of 60C.
• Only fill the slow cooker one half to two thirds full. The foods will not cook properly if the appliance is filled to the brim. If the food and liquid level is lower, the foods will cook too quickly.
• Foods cooked on the bottom of the slow cooker cook faster and will be moister because they are immersed in the simmering liquid.
• Don't lift the lid to stir, especially if you are cooking on the low setting. Each time you lift the lid, enough heat will escape that the cooking time should be extended by 20 minutes to half an hour.

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