#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
tehenga288,
Jul 23, 5:53am
bumping for saveloy
janny3,
Jul 23, 9:16am
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?
clare_mel,
Jul 26, 9:00pm
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.
karenz,
Jul 27, 1:33am
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?
snowflake11,
Jul 27, 5:04am
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.
tokianne,
Jul 28, 5:13am
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
janny3,
Jul 28, 8:42am
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.
janny3,
Jul 28, 9:42am
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?
karenz,
Jul 28, 7:10pm
Janny I reheated, on a low heat, some of the chicken and some of the veggies in the oven covered by foil and it was lovely, tasted as though it has just been cooked from fresh. I remember that oven hangi dish, but not the details, last week I smoked my own bacon in an electric frypan using manuka sawdust so maybe it is along those lines.
glenj,
Jul 29, 5:56am
Leftover juice into soup I use the leftover juice in the crockpot with the leftover chicken potatoe and kumara to make a soup for the next day. I add about 1 litre of water, salt and pepper to taste
kelly188,
Jul 30, 6:32pm
I did one other week after reading the thread and it was choice - the boyfriendloved it! ! ! I found that anything more than 5 hours and it starts drying and burning the edges of some of the cabbage and veges tho. I made stuffing balls instead of a crust, worked a treat and layered the top with cabbage. Cant wait to have it again - saw some liquid smoke on an auction on here too so might try it.
kann,
Aug 1, 12:22am
yum sounds good gona try it ... .
uli,
Aug 4, 12:15am
for a smokey flavour without the chemicals in liquid smoke use a bit of bacon rind or keep a bit of the skin off your bacon hock in the freezer for that. I brine and smoke kunes myself and always keep the smoked skin in bits in the freezer to use for soups or mock-hangi to get that smokey flavour.
janny3,
Aug 4, 1:55am
thanks for the tips everyone. Will use a couple of home smoked sausages for flavour next time. Cheers.
mum.nic,
Aug 4, 4:36pm
just popped our attempt on now so hopefully it will be yummy :)
Weve got pork and chicken with spuds, kumara, carrot and stuffing and cabbage. .
Our household absolutely loves Hangi so fingers crossed this is good :)
mum.nic,
Aug 5, 12:51am
OMG That was a great substitute for the real thing. Thank you to whoever post the recipe :)
karenz,
Aug 6, 12:43am
Bump ... .
kzm,
Aug 6, 12:50am
it sounds delicious I want some liquid smoke. . I have never heard of it before, what is it, and what does it do ?
janny3,
Aug 6, 12:53am
Liquid smoke A place in Nelson has it for sale online but I know some fishing & tackle stores may have had it too. You just put a couple of drops into a litre of water, then dip your meat, spuds etc in it for the smoke taste. I'm going to try the home smoked sausages or bacon in the slow cooker instead & see if it makes a difference.
kzm,
Aug 6, 1:04am
# 124 . . wow that was quick thank you for that, I am going to try and buy some... it sounds like an interesting twist to my cooking whirl.
janny3,
Aug 6, 7:36am
Best wishes kzm I missed dinner so am kinda hungry right now
kann,
Aug 7, 12:33am
yum yum yum cooked it for dinner tonight, so very good, thanks to the person who put the post up. my lid wouldnt fit on crockpot so i covered crockpot in tin foil and poped a large pot on the top for its lid.
uli,
Aug 7, 12:57am
a little warning on the liquid smoke: http://www.ncbi. nlm. nih. gov/pubmed/10566883 "... These results indicate that the cytotoxicity and mutagenicity of complex mixtures derived from pyrolysis products are affected by the type of material pyrolysed and/or the method used to prepare the mixture. The cytotoxic potential of some commercial smoke flavourings is greater than cigarette smoke condensate... " - so if you gave up smoking because of the health problems, I wouldn't recommend you go heavy on the liquid smoke. Once in a while may be ok.
karenz,
Aug 7, 2:03am
I am doing this tomorrow with wild pork should I still try to put the stuffing over the top or is that just for the chicken. I didn't have enough room with the chicken version so left it off and just went with cabbage and it was nice but it took forever to cook through, over 12 hours, and pork would probably take longer.
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