The best Tremendous Bowl appetizer is one you’ll be able to arrange early after which depart alone — in spite of everything, you are busy watching the sport. Even higher is when you’ll be able to serve that recipe scorching and it stays that approach, during the fourth quarter. That is the place the MVP of your game-day unfold comes into play: your gradual cooker.
Sluggish cookers are the easiest way to maintain your scorching wings scorching and your quesos ooey-gooey. When you’ve got one, a mini gradual cooker is ideal for serving smaller batches of apps, like heat olives or a roasted cauliflower unfold. And in case your gradual cooker has sauté operate, many of those dishes work as one-pot recipes. Others could require somewhat prep time on the stovetop or within the broiler, however they finish in your gradual cooker, the place they’re going to be saved heat into extra time and past.
Queso Fundido
Fred Hardy / Meals Styling by Emily Nabors Corridor / Prop Styling by Josh Hoggle
Sauté tomatoes, jalapeño peppers, and onions in a splash of tequila earlier than slowly including shredded Monterey Jack cheese over low warmth on this queso fundido recipe from 1988 F&W Finest New Chef Rick Bayless.
Lubia Pokhteh (Crimson Kidney Bean Dip)
Victor Protasio / Meals Styling by Torie Cox / Prop Styling by Claire Spollen
This earthy, tart bean dip from chef and cookbook writer Louisa Shafia is made by cooking, then mashing, pink kidney beans with fire-roasted tomatoes, turmeric, coriander, and cumin. Flip the sautée operate on for crispy, golden brown onions to bathe on prime.
Traditional Swiss Cheese Fondue
Julia Hartbeck
You may dip nearly something right into a traditional pot of Swiss fondue: chunks of potatoes, toasted bread cutes, slices of ripe pear. Hold this Alpine traditional heat in your gradual cooker, and remember to stir the fondue whenever you dip.
Honey Mustard Beer Cheese Fondue
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There’s not a lot better than melted cheese, and this recipe from F&W’s Chandra Ram combines the wealthy medley of Swiss and cheddar with beer and mustard.
Philly Cheesesteak Queso
It would not matter what groups are enjoying: Justin Chapple’s Philly-inspired queso is scrumptious sufficient to interrupt out for any game-day match up. Provolone and white American cheeses kind the bottom of a cheesesteak-themed dip that is topped with sautéed peppers, onions, and thinly sliced rib-eye steak.
Sluggish-Cooker Turkey Wings
First brown, then braise, then broil these slow-cooker turkey wings for the proper combo of tender and crispy. They want no less than 3 1/2 hours to prepare dinner in a candy and savory braising liquid so begin early.
Heat Olives with Sesame Seeds and Oregano
Maura McEvoy
Easy and scrumptious, these frivolously dressed olives (coated in toasted sesame seeds and recent oregano) are cooked over low warmth and served heat. When you’ve got it in your pantry, za’atar may be swapped in for the oregano.
Roasted-Cauliflower-and-Sesame Unfold
Joseph de Leo
Cauliflower is roasted within the oven earlier than its tossed in a meals processer with tahini and lemon juice to make a chunky puree for pita bread or chips. Served heat from the gradual cooker to maintain its earthy flavors good and toasty via the top of the sport.
Corn Queso Fundido
Chris Courtroom
Frozen candy corn, Monterey Jack cheese, and a poblano chile or two make up this candy and barely spicy queso fundido that’s greatest served scorching. Flip in your gradual cooker’s sauté operate to brown the poblano, onion, corn, and garlic earlier than you soften the cheese over low warmth.
One-Pot Sticky Rooster Wings
Stephanie Meyer
The sauté operate will assist you prepare dinner these rooster wings till golden, earlier than assembling ginger, chiles, star anise, cinnamon, sake, oyster sauce, soy sauce, mirin, and sugar over a low warmth to make a wealthy and sticky glaze impressed by Andrew Zimmern’s meals in Penang.
Aged Gouda Fondue with Caraway Croutons
Ryan Robert Miller
This creamy, Gouda-forward fondue requires caraway butter, which is then brushed onto toasted, cubed chunks of baguette — excellent for dipping right into a still-warm gradual cooker.