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Giveaway Closed: Ninja Cooking System : Review & Giveaway (With an All-in-1 Chicken Piccatta with Quinoa Recipe)

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Sorry! This giveaway is now closed! We would like to congratulate Amybee (Comment #10) on winning this cooker! We are so happy for your family, Amy! Thank you all for your entries- I wish I had one to give away to each of you!

I am so excited to share with you today’s review and giveaway of the Ninja Cooking System. If there is one thing I love, it is a smart kitchen gadget that can save you time & money in the kitchen. This review of the Ninja Cooking System is going to blow your mind with it’s awesomeness and the best part is that I get to give a Ninja Cooking System away to one of our readers.

I love my slow cooker, but there have always been some things about it that have created more work and dishes for me because of the traditional three temperature cooking knob. The Ninja Cooking System seems to solve many of my issues that I have had with the slow cooker due to its 3-in-1 cooking system that will leave you wondering, “Now why didn’t I think of that?”

Here are just four things that really set the Ninja Cooking System apart from your traditional slow cooker. 

The Stovetop Setting

Let me set the scenario for you that I would have to do with my slow cooker. First, I would go to my stove and brown my meat and make a huge mess around my stove with splatters and then I would try to pour my meat into my slow cooker once it was brown, creating dishes and a drippy mess along the way.

With the Ninja Cooker, you simply switch your dial to Stovetop and place your oil or butter right into the bottom of the pan to sear or brown your meats to the desired consistency. The depth of the cooker helps to keep splatters away and you don’t have to dirty a pan in the process.

The One Pot Ease

Pictured here  the meal that we enjoyed the first night we used the Ninja Cooking System. In this single pot is six cooked chicken breasts, one pound of asparagus, and four servings of quinoa… all in one pot!

The pot comes with a small rack and roasting pan that you can use to create layers in your dishes or can be used to bake items. The pot is definitely not roomy, but it can get the job done for a family of four or can provide a great roasting rack for a smaller whole chicken or turkey.

The Oven Setting

No need to heat up the kitchen in the summer months, you can set the oven setting on the Ninja Cooker to the desired oven temperature and roast or bake right in the cooker, simply by switching the dial. Even items like desserts can be baked right in the cooker, allowing you to free up your oven especially during the busy holiday season.

Can’t you just imagine how awesome this would be in scenarios like camping or in a hotel room when you want to save money and still eat well? I can’t wait to transport this with us!

It’s Cleans Up Like a Dream (I’m Not Kidding)

It is no exaggeration when I say that I put the insert of the Ninja Cooking System in my oven and the food fell away when I sprayed it with water. I cleaned it in five minutes flat and that was with a big batch of quinoa in the bottom. What would normally require a good soaking or a lot of elbow grease, was tidy in just a couple of swishes with dishcoth.

It does a lot more than that though, but those were the highlights for me! I am sharing a recipe from the booklet that I created in our kitchen and I want to give you the opportunity to win one of these for your family! Read the contest guidelines after the recipe and good luck to each of you! 

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Chicken Piccata with Quinoa (in the Ninja Cooking System)
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Serves: 4
 

Here is one example of an easy one pot dish you can create in your Ninja Cooking System!
Ingredients
  • 2 tablespoons all-purpose flour
  • ¼ teaspoon salt
  • ⅛ teaspoon ground black pepper
  • 1¼ pounds boneless chicken breast halves, thinly sliced
  • 2 tablespoons olive oil
  • 2 tablespoons butter
  • 1 cup chicken broth
  • 1 cup dry white wine
  • ⅓ cup lemon juice
  • ¼ cup brined capers, rinsed and drained
  • 1 cup uncoooked quinoa, rinsed
  • 1½ pounds fresh asparagus, cut into ½ inch pieces

Instructions
  1. Stir flour, salt , and black pepper on plate. Coat chicken with flour mixture.
  2. Add oil and butter to pot. Set to STOVETOP HIGH and heat until butter is melted. Add chicken to pot. Cook uncovered ten minutes or until chicken is lightly browned on both sides. Remove chicken from pot.
  3. Add broth, wine, lemon juice, and capers to pot. Stir in quinoa and heat to a boil. Place roasting rack into pot and place chicken on rack. Place rack into pot and place asparagus on chicken. Set OVEN to 300 degrees for fifteen minutes. Cover until chicken is cooked through, asparagus is tender, and quinoa breaks apart.
  4. Remove asparagus and chicken from pot. Stir quinoa mixture. Turn off pot. Let quinoa mixture stand.

To enter to win a Ninja Cooking System of your own (retail value $159):

• First Entry: Leave a comment and let us know what you love about the new Ninja Cooking System!

• Additional Entry: Let us know you are a fan of MomAdvice and join the MomAdvice Facebook Community.

• Additional Entry: Follow me on Twitter and get an early scoop on what I am up to and future giveaway opportunities with MomAdvice.

One winner, chosen at random, will receive a Ninja Cooking System (retail value of $159). Please submit your entries by Tuesday (10/23) at 8PM EST. Our winner will be drawn at random. Good luck, everyone!

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    I have never seen the Ninja Cooking System. It looks fabulous. I would love to have one!!

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    Love the stove top setting. Searing food before cooking is great!

    Liked you on Facebook.

    Followed you on Twitter

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    This is my first time seeing or even hearing about this cooker, I want it bad, and I also like you on Facebook

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    I love all the different settings!!! WOW!!!!! I love this one!! I would def give my daughter my old one. This would be cooking on my counter every day!!!

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    I just think it is fabulous that you can do everything in one pot.The Ninja Cooking System is perfect for a Mom like me with two kids who are constantly on the go and it would make cooking for my family so much easier.

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    I love the fact that you can actually do one pot cooking. I am about to have my second child so easy one pot cooking this winter is they way I want to go!!!

    I am already a facebook fan! Love the quinoa recipes!!!

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    I love that it does everything – that way I don’t need to go out and buy 5 different appliances.

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    I follow you.

    Amy Reply:
    October 15th, 2012 at 10:19 am

    I love that cooks when I am not home and is easy clean up.

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    This sounds so awesome! I would love to sear and slow cook all on the same pot! Along with cooking more than one dish at the same time!

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    I LOVE that you can use it to cook like an oven too (great for summer too!) Easy clean-up caught me eye as well! :)

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    I LOVE the fact you can brown and slow cook in one pot! I so dislike having to dirty another pan to brown meat before slow cooking!

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    I love that I can use the Ninja (which uses less energy) instead of my big stove & oven (that use a lot of energy) when I am preparing meals. Also, since this appliance does several different things (oven, stove top, slow cooker, etc.), I can save space in my pantry by getting rid of several other appliances and replacing it with the Ninja.

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    I love the idea of browning the meat right in the pot before slow cooking–and that I get the option of baking/roasting it instead!. I like having the control of how I cook the food, but still only have one pot to clean up! Ingenious!

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    I LOVE that with the cooking Ninja I wouldn’t have to sear the meats on my stovetop anymore! What a huge help and time saver that would be. Sadly to say I have been sacrificing the taste and skipping the extra step of searing many times. Doesn’t taste the same!

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    I love the stove top option! Often skip the sear because dont want to dirty another dish!

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    wow I don’t really like to cook anymore – maybe this would be helpful for me
    Love that it can do so much!

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    I think the brown to slow cook capability would be a HUGE time saver. I always struggle with whether it’s worth it to skip the browning step in order to get something going in the crockpot. Plus, who doesn’t like cooking that results in fewer dishes!

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    Since I made your Pot Roast Italiano (AMAZING!) over the weekend in my cheap-a*! slow cooker, I now have them on the brain! This one sounds wonderful and I could DEFINITELY use a replacement! :)

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