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101 Best Slow-Cooker Recipes

Keep your slow-cooker working around the clock with our all-time best slow-cooker recipes

101 Best Slow-Cooker Recipes

Many different types of dishes and can be made low and slow in your favorite kitchen appliance. Everything from cakes and roasts to hearty soups and Buffalo wings — slow-cookers can really do it all. Using a slow-cooker is nearly foolproof, and it keeps your hands free to do whatever else you need to do. The slow-cooker is especially handy if you are planning to entertain; it makes it easy to serve a group of people, and it frees up oven and stovetop space for other cooking and baking needs. Another plus is that electricity is cheaper than gas (if that's your usual cooking fuel) — so using a slow-cooker is a bonafide win all around. Perhaps best way to capture the greatness of slow-cookers is to describe that magical moment when you cross the threshold of your home and are met with the aroma of delicious smelling food just waiting for you to dig in — an experience that's all the sweeter if the day was particularly trying. With our 101 Best Slow-Cooker recipe round up we can help you recreate that moment every single day of the week. Keep your slow-cooker working around the clock and never be at a loss for a recipe again.

Slow-Cooked Appetizers

Start the party off right — and by right we mean with dishes that are delicious and require very little effort.

French Onion Dip

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Healthy Buffalo Chicken Dip

Who doesn't love a delicious Buffalo chicken dip at a party? It's creamy, delicious, a little spicy, and extremely flavorful. Yet when it is loaded with a few different types of cheese, this dip can get pretty fattening, pretty quickly. We've lightened up this recipe for you so you can thoroughly enjoy this essential party food without the guilt.

For the Healthy Slow Cooker Buffalo Chicken Dip Recipe , click here.

Jalapeño Spinach Dip

Mexican Seven Layer Dip

Party Mix

Southwest Spinach and Artichoke Dip

Slow-Cooker Breakfast and Bread

Slow-cooker breakfasts and breads take some of the stress out of cooking. For breakfast dishes like oatmeal or porridge, turn your slow-cooker on before you fall asleep and wake up to a hearty meal.

Banana Bread

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Cinnamon French Toast

Cornbread

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Cranberry-Maple Oatmeal

Using a slow-cooker to make steel-cut oats means you can sleep in without having to worry about starting breakfast. The steel cut oats, maple syrup, and dried cranberries are added all at once and then in the morning you can top your bowl with another drizzle of maple syrup and sprinkle with more cranberries and almonds. If you like your oatmeal very creamy, you can cook it for up to eight hours.

For the Cranberry-Maple Slow-Cooker Oatmeal recipe, click here.

Egg and Broccoli Casserole

Stone Ground Grits

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Ham and Swiss Quiche

Mexican-Style Quiche

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Monkey Bread

We're not monkeying around here: You actually make this monkey bread in your slow-cooker. Pop a can of pre-made buttery biscuit dough and cut the dough into one-inch lumps. Toss them in butter and sugar before piling them into the slow-cooker. After about two hours, this monkey bread can then be drizzled with chocolate, scattered with pecans, and kissed with whipped cream.

For the Slow-Cooker Turtle Monkey Bread recipe, click here.

Pumpkin Bread

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Slow-Cooker Soups

Slow-Cookers are perhaps best known for creating amazingly flavorful soups with little to no effort and these amazing soup recipes are no exception.

Beef Taco Soup

Butternut Squash Soup With Sausage

Cheeseburger Soup

Cheesy Potato Soup

Chicken and Dumplings

Chicken Cheese Tortellini Soup

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Chicken Matzo Ball Soup

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Chicken Pot Pie Soup

Chicken Tortilla Soup

Enchilada Soup

Lemon Chicken and Orzo Soup

Lemon Chicken and Rice Soup

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Lentil Soup

Shanghai-Style Beef Borscht

Sopa de Ajo

This chicken soup is something serious: Aside from the fact that it's perfumed with more than 40 cloves of garlic, pinches of saffron, cumin, cayenne, and paprika, it's topped with a poached egg, which, when pierced, infuses the soup with its rich flavor.

For the Slow-Cooker Sopa de Ajo recipe, click here.

Spicy Black Bean Soup

Turkey Fajita Soup

Hearty Slow-Cooker Stews

Here are some of our all-time favorite recipes for seriously good, serious filling, and seriously manageable stews.

Beef and Mushroom Stew

Beef Stew

Molly Aronica

Chicken Alfredo Stew

"Osso Buco" Stew

Osso Buco is traditionally made with veal shanks, white wine, vegetables, herbs, and a little tomato, but this version uses cubes of stew meat instead of the shanks to accommodate the slow-cooker. Don't skip the lemon zest and parsley as garnish, though, because the fresh flavors are key to unlocking the full potential of the dish.

For the Slow-cooker "Osso Buco" Stew recipe, click here.

Poblano Corn Chowder With Chicken and Chorizo

Shepherd's Pie

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As its name suggests, it was originally made with lamb or mutton, but these days you may be more familiar with it being made with beef. Combine all of the ingredients in large Crock-Pot and set on either low for 8 hours or high for four hours, taking care to not lift the lid during cooking time.

For the Crock-Pot Shepherd's Pie recipe , click here.

Spanish Lentil and Chorizo Stew

Sweet and Spicy Chili

Kristie Collado

Thai Beef Stew

Vegan Lentil Curry

Vegetarian Chipotle Chili

Slow-Cooker Chicken Recipes

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Making a chicken dinner has never been easier; slow-cookers are great for set-it-and-forget-it cooking methods that don't skimp on quality or flavor.

Buffalo Wings

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Use your slow-cooker to make super-tender, never-dry chicken wings. Just place the wings in your slow-cooker and cover them with your favorite sauce. Once they are cooked and tantalizingly tender, put the wings in an oven heated to 400 degrees Farenheit or place them under the broiler to give them a crispy exterior.

For the Slow-Cooker Buffalo Wings recipe, click here.

Caribbean Chicken Drumsticks

Chicken and Butternut Squash

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Chicken Casserole

Chicken Tikka Masala

Chicken Verde

Spinach Chicken

Teriyaki Chicken & Mac Salad Sliders

Slow-Cooker Beef Recipes

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Slow braising beef breaks down the tough fibers making it mouth-wateringly tender and extremely delicious.

Brisket

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Cuban Braised Beef

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Fire Pot Roast

French Dip Sandwich

Mini Cheese Burger Pies

Francesca Borgognone

Pulled Beef Sandwich

Sausage-Stuffed Flank Steak

Slow-Cooker Pork Recipes

Pulled pork, carnitas, and tender ribs; making pork dishes in your slow-cooker is always a good idea.

Apple Cider Pulled Pork

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Barbeque Ribs

Brown Sugar and Honey Ham

Carnitas Tacos

Jane Bruce

Cranberry Citrus Meatballs

Cuban Pulled Pork With Chipotle Mayo and Jicama Slaw

Honey Barbecue Pork Roast With Carrots

Italian Shredded Pork

Pork and Sauerkraut

Pork Chops With Mustard Thyme Gravy

Pulled Pork Tacos

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Red Wine Braised Pork-Butt

Maryse Chevriere

Other Slow-Cooked Dishes and Condiments

If you think your beloved and trusty slow-cooker is only good for slowbraising meats andsimmering soups and stews while you're at work, you are sorely mistaken.

Apple Butter

Apple butter is a concentrated, caramelized apple sauce with a spreadable richness. Making this in your slow-cooker may take a little time (almost 12 hours) but it is well worth the wait. P.S. the technique works well for pumpkin butter, too!

For the Slow-Cooker Apple Butter recipe, click here.

Cinnamon Applesauce

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Lasagna

Mac and Cheese

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Mashed Potatoes

Quick and Easy Tomato Ketchup

Risotto Milanese

Traditionally,risotto requires constant attention and stirring to activate the starches in the rice. Yet by using your slow-cooker, you can free up your hands and cut back on the labor required for this classic Italian dish. This technique calls for all the stock to be added at once, and the gentle heat of the slow-cooker cooks the rice to a perfectly rich and creamy al dente.

For the Slow-Cooker Risotto Milanese recipe, click here.

Roasted Peppers

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You can create the same roasted pepper taste and tender texture in your slow-cooker that you get when you actuallyroast red peppers over a flame. Just rub the inside of your slow-cooker witholive oil. Halve and seed your bell peppers, and place them in the oiled base. Cook on high for three hours, and then remove the lid and allow the peppers to cool; the skins should easily peel right off.

Scalloped Potatoes

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Slow-Cooker Desserts

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Dessert in your slow-cooker? Why, of couerse! Check out these essential slow-cooker dessert recipes.

Apple Crisp

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This ooey-gooey cinnamon baked apple crisp is covered in a sweet oat crumble. It's simple and ridiculously delicious. Just don't forget the scoop of vanilla ice cream on top.

To make this, follow thisApple Crisp recipe and cook in your slow-cooker on high for about two hours, then turn off the heat and leave it covered for up to an hour to let the liquid thicken.

Bananas Foster

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This dessert combines crispy, caramelizedbananas with chunky walnuts and rum for an unbeatable dessert. Although the fun part of bananas foster usually involves some flambé action, this slow-cooker recipe will still have the bananas melting luxuriously in your mouth.

For theCrock-Pot Bananas Foster recipe, click here.