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April 11, 2018 3:25 PM   Subscribe

Looking for one pot/crockpot meals with crazy dietary requirements

I am looking for some crockpot meals or one pot meals that involve no dairy*, no gluten, no coconut milk, no beans.

Preferably not curries. Also hoping for it to be low on the chunky vegetable variety, pureed or very chopped veggies possible. Low fodmap veggies a plus. My kids will eat veggies, but not usually all mixed up in casserole things.

*lactose free milk is an option, but cheese is not. Please don't try to convince me cheese is lactose free
posted by aetg to Food & Drink (14 answers total) 5 users marked this as a favorite
 
this saag aloo might fit what you're looking for.
you can get gluten free tortillas, so you can do ancho chili chicken and make a taco bar. there's beans in the recipe, but you can probably leave it out without any issue.
vegan crockpot jambalaya might work. you can always add meat.
posted by koroshiya at 3:34 PM on April 11, 2018 [1 favorite]


Response by poster: Also, probably not soup, as I'm the only one that eats soup.

We already do a chili and roast.
posted by aetg at 3:38 PM on April 11, 2018


Spaghetti Bolognese, Shepherd's Pie, and Chicken Casserole all have a lot of crockpot / slow cooker recipes online. They are all very easily adaptable for your veggie issue, and the Bolognese canhold a ton of concealed veggies. Chicken and chorizo would also work; you can omit, substitute or finely chop the peppers. We use mushrooms.
posted by DarlingBri at 3:54 PM on April 11, 2018 [1 favorite]


I won't argue with you about lactose in cheese, but are you open to lactose-free cottage cheese? It can be a pain to find, but it's the only truly lactose-free dairy cheese that's readily available and it's a decent sub for ricotta. Between that and gluten-free pasta, most recipes for crockpot baked ziti should work for you.
posted by blerghamot at 3:56 PM on April 11, 2018


Paleo recipes get you most of the way there, just need to avoid coconut milk & the particular veggies that don’t work well for you. It’s hard to do crockpot meals without going somewhere liquid-y/soup-y... how about sheet pan meals? Chicken or fish + the veggies you like. Frittatas also seem like an option worth exploring.
posted by Jaclyn at 4:21 PM on April 11, 2018


If you do make something with chunky vegetables, an immersion blender is very handy to have. Lift the protein out, and puree the veggies right in the pot.
posted by Iris Gambol at 5:07 PM on April 11, 2018 [2 favorites]


This carne guisada recipe is a favorite in my family. It is on the thinner side even with added cornstarch, so I recommend serving over rice or with corn tortillas. It’s not spicy if all the peppers are seeded, so no dairy is needed to cool down the spiciness.
posted by epj at 5:21 PM on April 11, 2018


Slow-cooker paella is good. You can leave out the onions and garlic, and add in a fair amount of veggies. Chicken, chorizo (check to make sure it's GF), and seafood in whatever amounts you like. The converted rice cooks in about 2 hours in a crock pot and has good texture.
posted by rikschell at 5:37 PM on April 11, 2018 [1 favorite]


I don’t know how many of the specific recipes will work for you but I think Glorious One-Pot Meals would probably have some really promising stuff. It’s basically a system for stacking grains, veggies, and meat in a dutch oven in such a way that they all finish cooking at the same time and come out more like separate dishes than a casserole. There’s definitely recipies that use quinoa or similar for grains, and they’re generally pretty easy to tweak for other dietary needs. But add about a lot more spices than they tell you to.
posted by duien at 5:46 PM on April 11, 2018


Yeah, look to paleo and swap any kind of coconut/dairy milk out for almond/soy/pea/etc. Or silken tofu.

It's not the best for cooking for leftovers, but I have a household with one GF/low-fodmap and two low-carb-ish and one eats-anything and I make a lot of sheet pan meals, often bulk-cooking a meat in the instant pot on the weekend and then roasting 2-4 sheets of veg tossed in fodmap-friendly seasonings. I buy bags of very small russet potatoes to quarter for the two carb-eaters (or make them rice), and the rest is a ton of broccoli, sweet peppers, brussels sprouts, green beans, tomatoes, cabbage whatever other vegetables strike someone's fancy. Everything's cut to cook in about 20-25 minutes.

We also eat a lot of Big Salads, again with protein I've bulk-cooked in advance. There's a ton of keto and paleo crock/IP bulk meat recipes that should require little to no changes to adhere to your requirements, and the rest is largely assembly.
posted by Lyn Never at 6:50 PM on April 11, 2018 [1 favorite]


Tacos Al-pastor?
posted by raccoon409 at 7:28 PM on April 11, 2018


I really like this crock pot chicken with artichokes and sun-dried tomatoes. I don't bother using the artichokes they specify, I just use regular water-packed artichokes and then reserve some liquid and add a glug of olive oil.
posted by radioamy at 8:56 PM on April 11, 2018 [2 favorites]


The Morrocan tagine is basically a traditional sort of crockpot. Most any tagine recipe will do fine in your pot. Morrocan cuisine is heavily spiced but the emphasis is on being hugely savory and not at all on heat. It can be meat with or without veggies, but a lot of recipies include fruit: olives, grapes, apricots, lemons, raisins.
posted by SemiSalt at 5:21 AM on April 12, 2018 [1 favorite]


The first thing I thought about was oxtail stew. There are alliums in most recipes I've seen including this one, but I think you could leave them out if necessary. It's probably even more delicious if you make it on the stovetop when you have time, and freeze it for later use. The vegetables dissolve into the sauce and I've never met a child who noticed them.
The same but not the same: a classic beef stew. Here you can clearly see the carrots and potatoes and so if you are a child that doesn't like them (I didn't like the carrots as a kid, but strangely now I do), you can put them on the side of your plate. Again, you can reduce or omit the onions and garlic. I like this without the wine a lot, too.
If you don't use onions, maybe add a bit of tomato paste to replace the sweetness.
As a final beef or veal dish, I'd add osso buco. This recipe is for stovetop, but it works really fine slow-cooked. You don't have to make risotto with it, most people find that is too much of a good thing. Just plain rice are fine, as is polenta, grilled or not.
Actually, for all beef and veal dishes, a mash of celeriac with a bit of potato and a lot of olive oil is delicious. Sprinkle with chopped parsley.
Do you eat fish? Fillets of any white fish, covered with a sauce of tomatoes, olive oil, olives, capers with a bit of the vinegar they are preserved in, maybe garlic, definitely herbs salt and pepper/chili, can be finished in the oven in 20 minutes or even less. Cook the sauce on the stovetop first, then put in the fish, and transfer to a medium hot oven. If the fillets are thin, roll them up, otherwise it goes too fast and the tastes won't merge. Actually, this method works for chicken too, though then I prefer to do it on the stovetop, like in this recipe, which I feel can easily be converted to a slow cooker, though I haven't tried. Cut up the chicken if you want a faster meal on the stovetop. For some reason, both with fish and chicken, I tend to avoid onions, so I have tested these recipes without many times and they are fine. One of my friends puts quartered potatoes in the sauce for the fish version and it is very fine, but make sure there is enough moisture in the sauce if you do that.
Not really a one-pot meal in the literal sense, but definitely very fast and easy food that is healthy: grill or fry duck breast to taste (one pr. person, I buy them frozen when on sale). Serve them sliced on a salad of crisp lettuce or romaine, apples, oranges and walnuts. Make a very light vinaigrette, because you will also pour over the duck fat if you can. I always eat this when I am home alone, but my family loves it too.
Some people can't eat beans but can eat lentils. If that applies to you, all lentil dishes are really good one pot meals. Jain recipes contain no alliums. Papadums are tasty bread made from lentil flour, and a lot of stores have them ready to fry. European style recipes for black or green lentils usually need onions and garlic to be tasty, but are excellent vehicles for all types of pork, including sausages.
posted by mumimor at 8:40 AM on April 12, 2018


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