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Slow cooker pulled lamb and mashed sweet potato

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Slow cooker pulled lamb and mashed sesame sweet potato

Slow cooker pulled lamb and mashed sweet potato

I asked a question on Facebook and Twitter about what slow cooker dish I should make this weekend. I was thinking of slowly cooking a ham hock but my friend Danae suggested lamb and sweet potato.

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Yummy Lummy Slow cooker Ham Hock recipe

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Saturday dinner. Slow cooker ham hock on sesame sweet potato mash with pickles. I cooked the ham hock for 8 hours. Mashed roasted sesame sweet potato. I made pickles with capsicum, red onion and spring ions.
Saturday dinner. Slow cooker ham hock on sesame sweet potato mash with pickles.
I cooked the ham hock for 8 hours, mashed the roasted sesame sweet potato, and made pickles with capsicum, red onion, and spring onions.

Yummy Lummy Slow cooker Ham Hock recipe

This slow cooker ham hock is prolonging my porcine cravings. I thought about making pea and ham soup but instead pulled pork from the ham hock with some roughly mashed sweet potato and pickled vegetables.

Recipe

Saturday dinner. Slow cooker ham hock on sesame sweet potato mash with pickles. I cooked the ham hock for 8 hours. Mashed roasted sesame sweet potato. I made pickles with capsicum, red onion and spring ions.
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Yummy Lummy slow cooker ham hock with mashed sweet potato and pickled vegetables
Prep Time
10 mins
Cook Time
8 hrs
Resting time
10 mins
Total Time
8 hrs 10 mins
 
Here’s a comforting slow cooker ham hock with mashed sweet potato and pickled vegetables meal for one with enough leftover for lunches.
Course: Main Course
Cuisine: Australian
Keyword: Ham hock, Mashed sweet potato, Pickled vegetables, Slow cooker
Servings: 1
Calories: 500 kcal
Author: Gary Lum
Ingredients
Ham hock bits
  • Ham hock
  • Chicken stock
Sweet potato bits
  • Sweet potato
  • Sesame oil
  • Sesame seeds
  • Poppy seeds
  • Olive oil
  • Iodised salt
  • Black pepper
  • Sour cream
Pickled vegetable bits
  • Capsicum
  • Spring onions
  • Red onion
  • Lime juice
  • Vinegar
  • Iodised salt
  • Brown sugar
Instructions
Ham hock part
  1. Put the ham hock into the slow cooker
    Ham hock ready for the slow cooker.
  2. Cover the ham hock with about 1 litre of chicken stock
  3. Cook the ham hock for 8 hours
  4. When the ham hock has cooked remove it from the cooking vessel and discard the liquid
  5. Remove and discard the skin and fat
    Slow cooker ham hock
  6. Shred the meat and leave in a bowl
Sweet potato part
  1. Wash the sweet potato

  2. Cut the sweet potato into cubes roughly 1 cm3

    Diced sweet potato
  3. Put them into a mixing bowl and add a good spurt of sesame oil and a slug of olive oil
    Diced sweet potato with seasoning
  4. Use your hands to make sure you coat all the surfaces of the cubed sweet potato with the oil
  5. Add in the sesame seeds, poppy seeds, iodised salt and black pepper and use your hands to mix it all thoroughly
    Diced sweet potato with seasoning in a baking tray.
  6. Spread the sweet potato out on a baking tray and place it into a hot oven (250 °C/480 °F) for 35 minutes or until the sweet potato is soft enough so a butter knife penetrates it easily with almost no resistance
  7. Put the the sweet potato into a mixing bowl and mash it roughly
  8. You can do it smoothly if you like but I like being rough with my mashed starches
  9. It’s quite satisfying to have a rough mash, the mouthfeel in my opinion is better
Pickled vegetables part
  1. Wash a green capsicum and them roughly dice it
  2. Chop a red onion into small pieces
  3. Slice a spring onion
  4. Put the capsicum, red onion and spring onion into a sealable container
  5. Add some white vinegar
  6. Add some lime juice
  7. Add some iodised salt
  8. Add some brown sugar
  9. I did this a few hours ahead of time and made enough so I’d have some for the following night for dinner
The plating up part
  1. Spoon some mashed sweet potato onto a dinner plate
    Saturday dinner. Slow cooker ham hock on sesame sweet potato mash with pickles. I cooked the ham hock for 8 hours. Mashed roasted sesame sweet potato. I made pickles with capsicum, red onion and spring ions.
  2. Add the pulled pork from the ham hock on top of the mashed sweet potato
  3. Spoon some of the pickled vegetables and place next to the mashed sweet potato
  4. As an option add a dollop of sour cream
The blogging part
  1. Shoot a photograph
  2. Eat the meal
  3. Wash the dishes
  4. Write the recipe
  5. Write the blog post
  6. Hope your friends and readers share the post on Twitter, Facebook, and Pinterest
Recipe Notes

Disclaimer

I have no culinary training nor qualifications.

This post is not intended to convey any health or medical advice. If you have any health concerns about anything you read, please contact your registered medical practitioner.

The quantities are indicative. Feel free to vary the quantities to suit your taste.

I deliberately do not calculate energy for dishes. I deliberately default to 500 Calories or 500,000 calories because I do not make these calculations.

Photographs

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Ham hock ready for the slow cooker.
Ham hock ready for the slow cooker.
Diced sweet potato
Diced sweet potato
Diced sweet potato with seasoning
Diced sweet potato with seasoning
Diced sweet potato with seasoning in a baking tray.
Diced sweet potato with seasoning in a baking tray.
Sweet potato out of the oven, ready for mashing.
Sweet potato out of the oven, ready for mashing.
Slow cooker ham hock
Slow cooker ham hock
Saturday dinner. Slow cooker ham hock on sesame sweet potato mash with pickles. I cooked the ham hock for 8 hours. Mashed roasted sesame sweet potato. I made pickles with capsicum, red onion and spring ions.
Saturday dinner. Slow cooker ham hock on sesame sweet potato mash with pickles. I cooked the ham hock for 8 hours. Mashed roasted sesame sweet potato. I made pickles with capsicum, red onion and spring ions.
Saturday dinner. Slow cooker ham hock on sesame sweet potato mash with pickles. I cooked the ham hock for 8 hours. Mashed roasted sesame sweet potato. I made pickles with capsicum, red onion and spring ions.
Saturday dinner. Slow cooker ham hock on sesame sweet potato mash with pickles. I cooked the ham hock for 8 hours. Mashed roasted sesame sweet potato. I made pickles with capsicum, red onion and spring ions.

Questions and answers

Why rough rather than smooth?

It’s like peanut paste; I always go for crunchy rather than smooth. Smooth suggests fancy. I’m not fancy. Rough is also tough. Rough gonococci, unlike smooth gonococci, can evade the complement system and go on to cause disseminated gonococcal infection (DGI) and create havoc in joints, the heart and occasionally the brain.

Final thoughts

Do you like eating ham hock?
Do you like it rough?
Did you ever think I’d mention gonococci in a recipe post?

Slow cooker pulled pork shoulder

Posted by Gary

Sunday dinner. Eight hour slow cooker barbecue pulled pork with roasted fennel and onion.
Sunday dinner. Eight hour slow cooker barbecue pulled pork with roasted fennel and onion.

Slow cooker pulled pork shoulder

This slow cooker pulled pork shoulder is a really simple recipe if you have a slow cooker and an oven.

This is a Yummy Lummy adaption of a Greg’s Kitchen recipe.

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Yummy Lummy slow cooker shin

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Saturday dinner. Slow cooker shin with Brussels sprouts, pumpkin and sweet potato. #beef #ossobucco #shin #slowcooker #yummylummy
Saturday dinner. Slow cooker shin with Brussels sprouts, pumpkin and sweet potato.

Yummy Lummy slow cooker shin

Winter is here in the Southern Hemisphere. Winter for Yummy Lummy means bringing the slow cooker out from the Shelf of Shame (or off the floor).

Would you believe I rarely look up recipes? I like to just bung things together and see how they turn out. This is what I did today. When I went grocery shopping I saw a packet of Osso Bucco and thought the meat would be good for slow cooking and the shin (tibia) bone marrow would add to the flavour.

I figured rather than stock I’d use a cheap packet of French onion soup plus some red wine and hope for the best.

I cooked the meat with some sweet potato and pumpkin along with some Brussels sprouts because friends have been commenting that I’m not eating enough vegetable matter.

This is a Yummy Lummy original recipe.

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Donkey sauce with an 8-hour slow cooked rib eye fillet roast by Yummy Lummy

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Donkey sauce I hear you ask? I made it for the first time last night and had it with leftover beef brisket on a brioche bun.

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8-hour slow cooked rib eye beef with salad, caramelised onion, and lashings of donkey sauce Gary Lum
8-hour slow cooked rib eye beef with salad, caramelised onion, and lashings of donkey sauce

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Recipe

8-hour slow cooked rib eye beef with salad, caramelised onion, and lashings of donkey sauce Gary Lum
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Donkey sauce with an 8-hour slow cooked rib eye fillet roast
Prep Time
20 mins
Cook Time
8 hrs
Total Time
8 hrs 20 mins
 
The main part of this recipe is the beef, the donkey sauce just makes it better, similar to the way horseradish can enhance beef.
Course: Main Course
Cuisine: Australian
Servings: 1
Calories: 1000 kcal
Author: Gary Lum
Ingredients
  • 2 kg rib eye fillet roast (rolled and tied)
  • 1 turnip (diced)
  • 1 potato (diced)
  • 1 Hawaiian sweet potato (diced)
  • 1 onion (diced)
  • 1 carrot (diced)
  • 2 stalks celery (sliced)
  • 1 cup wine
  • 1 cup stock
  • spring onions (sliced)
  • Parsley (chopped)
  • Lime zest
  • Caramelised onion
  • Lettuce
  • Tomato
  • Donkey sauce
Instructions
  1. In the slow cooker vessel add the onion, carrot, celery, potato, turnip and sweet potato and then pour in the wine and stock. It doesn’t really matter what wine and stock you use.
  2. Place the rolled rib eye fillet on top of the vegetables and then place the slow cooker vessel into the body of the slow cooker and turn on for eight hours.
  3. After eight hours prepare a salad of tomato, lettuce and spring onion with some parsley too.

  4. Open the slow cooker and lift out the beef. Allow the beef to rest covered with aluminium foil for fifteen minutes.

    Eight-hour slow cooked beef straight out of the slow cooker Gary Lum
  5. After the beef has rested, carve the rolled roast into three even portions. Vacuum pack and seal two portions and place in the freezer for later enjoyment.
  6. Place the remaining portion into a shallow bowl and the plate up with the salad. Add a good portion of donkey sauce to meat and a couple of tablespoons of caramelised onion.
  7. Garnish with chopped parsley and lime zest.
    Limes ready for juicing and zesting Gary Lum loves lime
  8. Shoot a photograph and then enjoy the sumptuousness that is 8-hour slowly cooked rib eye fillet roast.
  9. Wash the dishes.
  10. Write the recipe and blog hoping people who read this will share it on social media, especially on their Facebook pages and Twitter accounts.
Recipe Notes

This dish will satisfy you and make you happy enough to smile  just at the thought of it. Meat is good.

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Limes ready for juicing and zesting Gary Lum loves lime
Limes ready for juicing and zesting

Eight-hour slow cooked beef straight out of the slow cooker Gary Lum
Eight-hour slow cooked beef straight out of the slow cooker

8-hour slow cooked rib eye beef with salad, caramelised onion, and lashings of donkey sauce Gary Lum
8-hour slow cooked rib eye beef with salad, caramelised onion, and lashings of donkey sauce

Donkey sauce ready for dripping all over myself Gary Lum
Donkey sauce ready for dripping all over myself

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Frequently asked questions

Why do you like slowly cooking beef so much?

I love the flavour but mostly the texture of the muscle bundles separating with little effort and that cutting across the grain is almost effortless with a good knife which means chewing is a joy.

Who created donkey sauce?

I answered this in my recent post. Check it out.

Why do you eat so much?

It’s a weakness. I must stop eating so much.

Do you have any similar recipes?

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