Fall is a season that screams slow cooker to me. During the summer, the heat outweighs my desire for comfort food and one-pot simplicity, but as the temperature drops, the days shorten, and my desire for comfort food spikes, my slow cooker spends more days on our counter and significantly fewer days stashed in the cabinet.
I have a small handful of regular slow cooker meals in my rotation at home, but I know that most moms, myself included, are always looking for short cuts when it comes for dinner prep, while our families scream for variety. So I spent a long weekend scouring the internet, and guys, there are so many delicious recipes out there that look incredible. I clicked a million or so links and cherry-picked 90 of them. They all look delicious, most are fairly no-fuss, most require minimal steps before “dump ingredients in crock pot and turn on,” and most involve ingredients that you can find easily at the grocery store.
Southwestern Pulled Brisket | Beef & Barley Soup | Shredded Beef Enchiladas
Beef Bourguignon | Crock Pot Tomato Sauce | Provencal Beef Daube
Chuck Roast Butternut Squash | Italian Beef Sandwiches | Paleo Corned Beef and Cabbage
Coffee-braised Chile Beef | Mushroom Lamb Shanks | Irish Lamb Stew
Thai Red Curry Beef | Sauerbraten | Beef Brisket with Beer
Hungarian Beef Goulash | Korean Tacos | Pot Roast
Chicken Philly Sandwiches | Turkey with No Fuss Gravy | Pulled Buffalo Chicken Sandwich
Pineapple Salsa Chicken | Sesame Chicken | Chicken Cacciatore
Southwest Chicken Stacks | Greek Chicken Pita Pockets | Teriyaki Chicken
Kimchi Chicken Cauliflower | Carmelized Chicken | Sticky Chicken
Buffalo Chicken Chili | Moroccan Chicken with Chickpeas | Sweet Potato Quinoa Chicken Chili
Thai Chicken | Santa Fe Chicken | Chicken Musakhan
Cilantro Lime Chicken | Turkey White Bean Pumpkin | Brown Sugar Glazed Pulled Chicken
Potato Barley & Canadian Bacon Soup | Pork Tenderloin that Will Make You Cry | Hawaiian Pulled Pork w/ Pineapple Salsa
Stupid Easy Paleo Spaghetti Squash Meatballs | Smokey Pulled Pork w/ Cherry Peach Salsa | Creamy Ranch Pork Chops
Parmesan Honey Pork Roast | BBQ Pulled Pork | Pork Carnitas
Apple Pork Tenderloin | Moo Shu Pork | Apricot Chipotle Pork Ribs
Cuban Style Pork Tenderloin | Balsamic Pork Roast | Chinese 5 Spice Pork Spare Ribs
Asian pork with Mushrooms | Chinese Pork With Noodles | Red Beans and Rice
**A few of these recipes call for chicken stock, but can easily be vegetarian when vegetable stock is substituted.**
Squash Chickpea Red Lentil Stew | Vegetarian Pinto Bean Sloppy Joes | Curried Carrot Soup w/ Pan Toasted Cornbread Croutons
Vegetarian Stuffed Bell Peppers | Enchilada Cornbread Casserole | Mediterranean Succotash
Garlic Sweet Potato Mash | Vegetable Chickpea Curry | Mexican Cauliflower Rice
Minestrone Soup | Santa Fe Black Beans | Vegetable Pot Pie
Thyme Scented White Bean Cassoulet | Pesto Lasagna w/ Spinach Mushrooms | Ratatouille
Easy Autumnal Chunky Apple Sauce | Indian Chole | Barley Risotto Fennel
Lentil Soup | Easy and Creamy Mac and Three Cheeses | Vegetarian Lentil Sloppy Joes/
Overnight Cinnamon Apple Oatmeal | Maple Hazelnut Oatmeal | Ham and Brie Pudding
Spinach & Mozzarella Frittata | Overnight Blueberry French Toast | Mexican Breakfast Casserole
Breakfast Casserole | Caramel Banana Pecan Bread Casserole | Fully Loaded Breakfast Casserole
Bacon Cheese Quiche | Loaded Hashbrowns | Sausage & Sweet Pepper Hash
What are your favorite slow cooker meals?
persimmon / 1472 posts
I *puffy heart* you! I was just going to start looking up slow cooker recipes so my husband can have a decent meal again since DD2 was born. This is awesome!!!
My typical slow cooker fallback is stew or pulled pork. Yup… that’s it. So now I can have a variety!
blogger / cherry / 204 posts
This is amazing! I’ve had a slow cooker for a year and never used it, we’re about to move into a home with the smallest kitchen of all time, and then have another baby, so we’ve been on a mission to figure out how to make meal times quick and easy, this is perfect!
hostess / cantaloupe / 6486 posts
Mmm, I love my slow cooker. So glad you posted this on meal planning day!
blogger / clementine / 750 posts
I LOVE using my crock pot. Off to pin a whole bunch of recipes now!
honeydew / 7295 posts
hooray for this post!
blogger / eggplant / 11551 posts
Thanks for doing the work so we can reap the benefits!! I’m going to check out some of these recipes. Mmmm
admin / watermelon / 14210 posts
definitely time to break out my crockpot!!!!
nectarine / 2878 posts
Love this post!!
grapefruit / 4923 posts
so awesome, thank you for collecting all these recipes!!!
pear / 1672 posts
Pinning! Thanks!
kiwi / 511 posts
Thanks I am getting some new ideas. Some issues that i have with some crock pot recipes is not all include the size of crock pot they use. I have a big one so that means something made in a 4 quart one needs to be adjusted for my larger one, it is frustrating to find a dried out recipe because you learn after the fact that they used a small crock pot.
Secondly my crock pot has a timer but unless I am using a recipe that needs to be cooked for 8 hours it probably isn’t worth it because it will be a bit dry. Most beef recipes work but some chicken ones do not I find they tend to be cook for 6 hours on low. I leave at 7 AM and get back at 4:45, so that is 4 hours on warm. Safe but that is why I prefer not to do chicken, dark meat is more forgiving than white and skin on, you can take the skin off easily enough after wards.
Two of my favs…. Cranberry Roast (could be beef, or pork) http://crockpot365.blogspot.com/2009/12/supuer-simple-cranberry-roast-beef-or.html
And 3 packet pot roast http://crockpot365.blogspot.com/2008/08/crockpot-3-packet-pot-roast-recipe.html
blogger / persimmon / 1398 posts
Do I even need to tell you that I *love* this post?! Cause I really do LOVE it! Thanks for rounding it all up!
blogger / kiwi / 675 posts
whoa thank you for this list lady! I will be revisiting often I love my slow cooker.