Slow Cooker Heaven – try this one! It is fast and easy – especially when cooking with kids

This is a good dish to serve with chicken or even as a dessert! I like it less spicy as an accompaniment and more spicy as dessert.

Cabbage Pear Apple Slow Cooker Casserole

Ingredients:

• 2 lbs red cabbage, shredded finely
• 4 large onions, peeled & finely diced
• 2 large apples and 2 large pears, NOT peeled but cored, finely diced
• 4 garlic cloves, peeled & finely minced
• 4 tablespoons soft brown sugar
• 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
• 1/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg ( I leave this out as an accompaniment)
• 1/2 teaspoon ground cloves ( same here)
• salt & pepper
• 3 tablespoons red wine vinegar
• 1 ounce butter

Directions:

1. Layer the ingredients: Red cabbage, then salt & pepper; Apples or pears, onions & garlic, then the spices & brown sugar;keep layering this way until everything has been used up.
2. Dot the top of the red cabbage with the butter and pour over the red wine vinegar.Season once more with salt & pepper and cook for 6 to 12 hours on High in the slow cooker, until everything has broken down, is soft and it is a rich red color.
3. Serve as a dessert with gingersnap cookies or as a vegetable with a roast chicken instead of potatoes