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Trying to eat healthy - so I wondered if I could take the skin off the chicken before following all your instructions.Also, you talk about stuffing on top of everything, would it work if I put the stuffing in the chicken or is the idea that the stuffing on top flavours everything!My understanding of all I've read is that the top needs to be snug and sealed in by cabbage and maybe tinfoil so that everything steams

Mud in a crockpot ! I used to make a small hangi in a large tin with a small mixture of soil & water combined on the bottom .covered with a expandable vegtable steamer.next the vegetables and meat.cooked slowly over a gas flame.it tasted like a real hangi.might give it a go in my crock pot. dont laugh.it might work.

Tried Stuffing inside but ittakes too long to cook But there's no reason you couldn't remove the skin.Why not take it off after it's cooked!After all the fat drips off into the bottom of the crock bowl & so helps prevent any little burnt on bits when you have to wash up.The mud in the crock you mention I once saw on a NZ TV cookery show presented by Peta Mathias.It really does taste genuine.Will try & find the recipe if you like. My brother makes his "hangi" in the oven w/ foil over the food then puts the baking dish lid over it all.I prefer crock pot because I can go away and leave it, unlike the oven.

Trying to eat healthy - so I wondered if I could take the skin off the chicken before following all your instructions.Also, you talk about stuffing on top of everything, would it work if I put the stuffing in the chicken or is the idea that the stuffing on top flavours everything!My understanding of all I've read is that the top needs to be snug and sealed in by cabbage and maybe tinfoil so that everything steams

Tried Stuffing inside but ittakes too long to cook But there's no reason you couldn't remove the skin.Why not take it off after it's cooked!After all the fat drips off into the bottom of the crock bowl & so helps prevent any little burnt on bits when you have to wash up.The mud in the crock you mention I once saw on a NZ TV cookery show presented by Peta Mathias.It really does taste genuine.Will try & find the recipe if you like. My brother makes his "hangi" in the oven w/ foil over the food then puts the baking dish lid over it all.I prefer crock pot because I can go away and leave it, unlike the oven.

what size crockpots does everyone use! I only have a small crockpot and I also have a feeling it doesn't work the best, the last few times I've used it steam slips out of the top of the lid! good excuse to buy a new one, but wondering if I should look at getting a bigger one so I can try this recipe! So just wondering what size crockpot is best!

Janny3 It would be really great if you could have a hunt arount. Ive tasted a lot of hangis.just not quite the same without the soil.

Ok deb888 will try & wade through the messy kitchen for the piece of scribbled paper wedged into an old recipe book somewhere.Wonder if it's on the web alreay under Peta Mathias/TVNZ!

ok i have one on tonight but. I couldnt jam the stuffing on top.The lid wont go on! What am i doing wrong!What size chicken is okay and what size crock pot!I put it on at 11am but it doesnt even look close to being cooked.Have put tinfoil around to 'seal' it. (Will put in oven if it doesnt turn out)The kids are circling like vultures as the smell is divine. Hope it does turn out will try smaller chicken next time.

Had the same problem so used the foil too but couldn't see through the lid what was happening.Try to hack off a bit of the bottom of the chicken to squash it down.If you make quite a wettish stuffing also you can mould it (like potter's clay) to seal over the large cabbage leaves (etc).It does cook down also.So I weighted mine down w/ an upside down heavy cast iron fry-pan which did the trick till it all cooked down enough for the lid to fit easily.

lol thanks will try the heavy pan trick.Looks like i will have to chuck it all in the oven though, the kids are a bit peckish already.The smell is soooo lovely.

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#97.yes i would go out and buy a bigger one. i did the pork in mine the other night. quitea good size bit. stuffed all the vegs around. it was yummy

Levite Yes, I put the upside down cast iron pan carefully over the lid until the raw ingredients had cooked down sufficiently enough for the lid to fit on easily.How did you get on!

what size crockpots does everyone use! I only have a small crockpot and I also have a feeling it doesn't work the best, the last few times I've used it steam slips out of the top of the lid! good excuse to buy a new one, but wondering if I should look at getting a bigger one so I can try this recipe! So just wondering what size crockpot is best!

Ok deb888 will try & wade through the messy kitchen for the piece of scribbled paper wedged into an old recipe book somewhere.Wonder if it's on the web alreay under Peta Mathias/TVNZ!

ok i have one on tonight but. I couldnt jam the stuffing on top.The lid wont go on! What am i doing wrong!What size chicken is okay and what size crock pot!I put it on at 11am but it doesnt even look close to being cooked.Have put tinfoil around to 'seal' it. (Will put in oven if it doesnt turn out)The kids are circling like vultures as the smell is divine. Hope it does turn out will try smaller chicken next time.

Had the same problem so used the foil too but couldn't see through the lid what was happening.Try to hack off a bit of the bottom of the chicken to squash it down.If you make quite a wettish stuffing also you can mould it (like potter's clay) to seal over the large cabbage leaves (etc).It does cook down also.So I weighted mine down w/ an upside down heavy cast iron fry-pan which did the trick till it all cooked down enough for the lid to fit easily.

Thanks all! I have just got my slow cooker out which has been sitting in the cupboard for 5 years and has never been used.And now it is full up with a heavy pan on top holding down my crockpot hangi!So thanks to all for the inspiration.And will let you know how it goes.

Think I may have overfilled the crockpot it is not very big and the chicken was even after I removed the wings, it took a lot longer to cook that I anticipated and it was way too late to have it last night.Is it OK to put it in the oven and cover with tinfoil and rehear gently for tonight!

Hi,made a hangi last night Did the layers,potatoes,chiken,then pumpkin,parsnip and kumers.Didn't have any watercress so used silverbeet,large cabbage leaves and then the stuffing.By this time my crockpot was very high,so wrapped the top with tinfoil then pushed the pottery lid on top as far down as I was able.Put it on at 9pm and ate it at 9am.the food had sunk enough for the lid to fit properly and everything was cooked.Yummmmmy.

Hi great Recipe Cooked for Dinner tonight everything cooked well
The Chicken just fell apart.
I used cabbage leaves and they burnt slightly where they touched the side of crockpot.Still all my family loved it.Thanks

karenz how'd you get on!My brother cooks his in the oven anyway.He does everything the same finally using foil & the oven dish lid. Crockpots are easy if you go out for a few hours plus use less electricity than an electric oven.But the end result should've been just fine.
As for overfilling the slow cooker, the upside down cast iron fry pan over the lid helps weight it down enough to sit snugly over the crockpot bowl so as to keep the heat in.When it cooks down, you won't need any weight on the lid as it should fit perfectly enough to prevent heat escaping.

still hunting out the old oven hangi recipe for oven cooked hangi w/ the ash/charcoals, sawdust & sterile earth in the bottom of the dish for flavouring.I remember it wasn't much just a few TB of ea scattered in the bottom of the oven dish, was sufficient for flavour.We then put a cake wrack inside the oven dish & the food went onto that, covered it all w/ foil then the lid secured onto the baking dish. How do you steralise the earth!Steel bucket/old pot, filled w/ clean earth, placed inside a boiling copper w/ a whole spud poked into the top.Once the spud was done the bacteria in the soil was killed off. I guess you could use a double boiler instead!

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