20 + Delicious Slow Cooker Recipes

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Every Fall it hits me. It’s slow cooker season and it’s time to whip up a bunch of slow cooker recipes. I’m typically pretty busy in the Fall, due to homeschooling and working from home so crock pot recipes are the best thing for my schedule.

I love how by mid day my entire house smells amazing due to the slow cooker going. My husband will typically emerge from his office following his nose like in the cartoons and asks when dinner will be ready. I also love that I can start dinner in the morning and not worry about it for the rest of the day.

When the schedule gets busy the slow cooker is the only way I can still offer homemade meals that are budget friendly. I can cook everything from a roast to a delicious stew with minimal effort. 

Speaking of easy meals:

I have owned many slow cookers in my life and I prefer the Hamilton Beach slow cookers. Hamilton Beach Stay or Go 6-Quart Slow Cooker is the one I currently use and it works great. It’s easy to use and offers a wonderful keep warm function. If your food is done cooking you can turn it to the warm function to keep it warm until you’re ready to serve.

I personally use the keep warm function for dips at parties. You can scoop some out and serve it with the rest of the appetizers and then refill it.

While we all love the ease of using a slow cooker to make dinner, a lot of us hate cleaning our slow cooker. I have a great tip on how to get your slow cooker crock sparkling clean in no time and with hardly any scrubbing. Scroll to the bottom for more on how I clean my slow cooker.

So without further ado here are 20 slow cooker recipes that free up time spent in the kitchen while providing you with a great meal for your family.

Check out my post The 20 Best Crock Pot Desserts.

20 + Best Slow Cooker Recipes Ever

These recipes are easy and delicious to make so make sure you press or click the picture to pop over and get full recipes from the recipe creators.

Slow Cooker Recipes Beef

While most beefs are best grilled or fried these beef recipes are absolutely perfect for the slow cooker and make easy meals. Remember Orange juice is a tenderizer and makes a roast absolutely melt in your mouth with deliciousness.

Crock Pot Beef and Broccoli

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I cook up my rice in the instant pot just 20 minutes or so before I’m ready to serve dinner. This beef and broccoli is super easy to make and cheaper than ordering take out.

Slow Cooker Steakhouse Stuffed Peppers

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Love stuffed peppers, but don’t want to turn your oven on? Let them cook all day in your crock pot. These stuffed peppers turn out perfect every single time and the ground beef doesn’t dry out like it does sometimes when you cook them in the oven.

Slow Cooker Recipes Pork

YoYou can pop a whole pork tenderloin, a slab of ribs, or pork chops in your slow cooker for a filling and tasty dinner. Even making a pulled pork in your crock pot for sandwiches is easy.

Slow Cook Lo-Mein

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This is one of my more favorite Lo Mein recipes to make at home. The sauce is filled with different spices and flavors which makes it better than take out Lo Mein by far.

Crock Pot Pork Carnita Tacos

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This Carnitas recipe is perfect as tacos or even on tortilla chips. Add your favorite salsa, diced tomatoes, diced avocado, cheeses and toppings and within minutes of prep work dinner is cooking and ready when you are.

Slow Cooker Cheesy Ham Chowder

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This cheesy ham chowder is the perfect comfort food and the ingredients are super easy to just toss in the slow cooker and let it go. I absolutely love this chowder.

Slow Cooker Angel Pork Chops

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This was one of the first recipes where I used cream cheese and let me tell you it’s absolutely perfect. It hits all those comfort food cravings and is super filling.

Slow Cooker Chicken Recipes

I love cooking chicken in my slow cooker, it makes the chicken tender while filling it with loads of flavor.

Slow Cooker Cilantro Lime Chicken Tacos

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These slow cooker chicken tacos are perfect for any night of the week. Top them with cilantro, sour cream, salsa, diced tomatoes, or even avocado. Just like with the Pork Carnitas this chicken is also great spread over nachos.

Crock Pot Chicken and Gravy

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This recipe is amazing and delicious and you can serve it with rice or egg noodles. Use chicken thighs for a more tender shredded chicken and a bit of extra flavor.

Slow Cooker White Chicken Chili

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This white chicken chili is absolutely perfect. I like upping the cumin because I just love the taste of it. While it calls for northern beans I have used black beans as a sub when I was out of the northern beans and it worked out wonderfully.

Slow Cooker Cheesy Buffalo Chicken Pasta

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If you’re craving something spicy but your spouse is craving pasta this is the perfect compromise. It’s also one of my favorite slow cooker recipes and gets made pretty often in our house.

Slow Cooker Honey Garlic Chicken

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This is an amazing slow cooker dinner. I like serving this over rice especially if you are not using a low sodium soy sauce, the rice helps to cut the salt. I absolutely recommend using fresh grated ginger in this slow cooker recipe.

Slow Cooker Lemon Butter Chicken

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These chicken breasts turn out absolutely amazing and this butter chicken is perfect served over egg noodles. This is a great recipe when I just don’t feel like standing over a stove to make butter chicken.

Easy Slow Cooker Recipes – Other Category

It could be a side dish, breakfast, or a gumbo, these are some of the easiest recipes to make a large quantity of food with little effort.

Slow Cooker Cinnamon Roll Casserole

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While I’m typically not one to let a crock pot run overnight this recipe had me trying it. I didn’t sleep well that night because I was worried – even though I didn’t need to be.  This Cinnamon Roll Casserole is one of my family’s favorite breakfasts for special occasions.

Crock Pot Baked Potatoes

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Listen, if you are running low on oven space because you are cooking up a Holiday dinner then this is a must have crock pot recipe. However, I’ve been known to make this alone for dinner or sub sweet potatoes instead, add some broccoli and this is a great lunch or dinner to fill you up without turning on that oven.

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Crock Pot Cheesy Potato Soup

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Sometimes all you need is a great creamy soup for dinner. Some of my favorite slow cooker recipes are soup and this one is perfect. It’s filling comfort food that can be served in a bowl or even in a bread bowl.

Crockpot Lasagna Casserole

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I love this recipe and more importantly my kid loves this recipe and he’s a picky eater. It’s cheesy, filling, and you don’t have to turn on the oven to make it. It’s another great side dish to make in a crock pot when you are running low on oven space. Also perfect for potlucks.

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Slow Cooker Baked Spaghetti

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There are two items that are always a hit at potlucks. Meatballs, and this delicious spaghetti recipe. It’s cheesy, transportable, and you can keep it warm at the office.

Slow Cooker Broccoli Cheddar Soup

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This is another great crock pot soup recipe that’s perfect for a bread bowl. It’s delicious and warm and wonderful.

Crockpot Gumbo Recipe

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If you need something with a slight kick and loaded with flavors this is by far the best recipe. Gumbo is one of those recipes that just always tastes good and is perfect for any time of year. It is one of my favorite slow cooker recipes.

Slow Cooker Cheesy Scalloped Potatoes

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If you are low on oven space and need a good side dish this one is perfect. My husband loves scalloped potatoes and we used to do the boxed kind, but after finding this recipe we knew we found an absolute winner.

Slow Cooker Mashed Potatoes

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If you have an easy freezer meal going into the oven when you get home from work you can make these potatoes all day. You have perfect mashed potatoes that are super easy with minimal effort for your meatloaf or stuffed peppers.

All of these meals are delicious and filling. Comfort food to the rescue on these chilly fall and winter nights.

Check out my post Colorful Peppers and Smoked Sausage.

No Scrub Cleaning Tip

Before we go, I’m going to give you my #1 crock pot cleaning tip. This tip makes cleaning your slow cooker easy without scrubbing and leaves it sparkling clean.

This trick gets rid of curry smells, crusted tomato sauce, steel-cut oats, and cleans up beef stew or slow cooker beef stroganoff with ease and no scrubbing. It’s absolutely a must know trick.

Baking Soda is my secret. After one particular slow cooker meal I had some pretty crusted-on food along the sides of my slow cooker. Not feeling like scrubbing, I filled the slow cooker with piping hot water and sprinkled a bit of baking soda in it. I let it sit until the water was cool enough to handle.

All it took was a quick wipe down with a green scrubby side of my sponge and all the crusted-on bits came right off with ease. A quick wash with dish soap and my slow cooker was sparkling without any major issues.

For my fellow bloggers out there. Feel free to leave a link to your favorite slow cooker recipe in the comment section below. Follow me on Pinterest for more awesome recipes like this and pin this to your favorite food boards.

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