With just a few ingredients, you can make this butternut squash and sausage soup in your slow cooker.
You can prep the ingredients in the morning and serve this soup for lunch by noon. Start a little bit later in the day and you can enjoy this soup for dinner. The spicy sausage, combined with the butternut squash, brings so much flavor to this easy soup.
This slow cooker white bean and chicken chili includes layers of flavor from chicken broth, sauteed onions and jalapeños, and bone-in chicken thighs.
This slow cooker chicken chili begins with a base of chicken broth and pureed canned hominy. It's a great way to add a corn flavor as well as thicken the base without a roux.
This slow cooker beef and potato stew is about as easy and tasty as it gets.
You don't have to brown the meat. You don't have to chop or peel the potatoes, and you don't have to chop any onions. The secret ingredient is condensed French onion soup, which melds with the juices of the meat as it slow cooks to produce an amazing gravy.
This slow cooker cheesy chicken and Frito casserole is an easy and tasty weeknight meal that everyone will love.
With just a tiny bit of heat and spice, this Tex-Mex inspired casserole is both kid- and adult-friendly and completely satisfying. This comforting casserole takes very little hands on time to make and the resulting dish is wonderful.
These Pork Spring Rolls are so easy to prepare, and they are perfect for a party.
Along with the pork, these tasty pork spring rolls (or Vietnamese-style summer rolls) are filled with fresh vegetables and herbs and then wrapped up with rice paper spring roll wrappers. You can make them in advance and keep them in the refrigerator until your guests arrive.
Cooking ribs in the slow cooker and then finishing them under the broiler helps recreate the fall-off-the-bone slow smoked awesomeness of barbecued ribs.
These slow cooker baby back ribs are so easy to make, require little hands on time, and you don't need a barbecue to make them.
Toss a few simple ingredients into your slow cooker for an easy and satisfying vegetable-beef soup.
This beef and vegetable soup is a wonderfully satisfying bowl of comfort. It only requires three and a half hours in the slow cooker, so you can start it in the morning and serve it for lunch.
This slow cooker barbecued beef brisket is so pull-apart tender and totally flavorful. It's a fabulous recipe for recreating the slow roasted and smoked flavor without a smoker.
The slow cooker is the perfect vehicle for preparing brisket. This cut of beef was made for "low and slow." The results are super tender and "melt-in-your-mouth" delicious.
These slow cooker mahogany chicken legs are braised in a mixture of two kinds of soy sauce, along with spices, vinegar, and rice wine, resulting in a deliciously moist and glistening chicken dish.
These Mahogany chicken legs are cooked using the technique called "red cooking" or "red braising."
This slow cooker chicken pot pie is an easy and almost hands-free way to create chicken pot pie for a crowd.
This is an easy and delicious recipe for chicken pot pie for a crowd without having to make a roux or spend much time at the stove.
This Pan de Elote (Mexican Cornbread), made in the slow cooker, is sweet and very moist, and can be served as a snack, side dish, or even a dessert.
Pan de elote is super moist, buttery, and sweet, and filled with blended fresh corn along with whole kernels sprinkled throughout.
This slow cooker Italian Sunday gravy is an easy and delicious take on a classic Italian-American dish.
This slow cooker Italian Sunday gravy is a rich and hearty tomato sauce enriched with red wine and many different cuts of meat.
This Crock Pot loaded baked potatoes recipe is a fun way to take your favorite twice-baked potato recipe and turn it into an easy, crowd pleasing, slow cooker casserole.
These potatoes are loaded with cream cheese, sour cream, Colby Jack cheese, and lots and lots of bacon. They taste just like your favorite twice-baked potatoes, but without the potato skins.
This Argentina-style beef stew, made in the slow cooker, is loaded with tons of vegetables, and is a beef lover's dream as well.
This Argentina-style beef stew, made in the Crock Pot, is filled with beefy goodness. After all, Argentina is known for its excellent beef and South America is know for being the birthplace of potatoes, so why not a stew?
This Crock Pot Sausage, Vegetable, and Bean Soup is loaded with spicy nutritious goodness.
This soup is pure comfort food and super easy to make.
This French dip sandwich has got to be one of the best dishes I've ever tried in the slow cooker. It's really tasty and incredibly easy to make.
Take a chuck roast, which is a great cut for braising, toss it into your Crock Pot with an umami rich broth, and let all of the flavors meld until everything is perfectly melt-in-your-mouth tender.
This Irish stew, with just the traditional ingredients of lamb, potatoes, onions, thyme, and parsley is slow simmered until the meat is tender and the vegetables are full of flavor.
This recipe for traditional Irish stew uses a slow cooker to braise the all of the ingredients. You can cook the stew on high for about 5 hours, or on low for about 8 hours. Your house will smell amazing when this stew is cooking.
The slow cooker is perfect for recreating the deliciousness of low and slow barbecued pulled pork, even if you don't have a smoker in the back yard.
This barbecue pulled pork is so easy to make and the ingredient list is probably already in your pantry.
This ropa vieja, a combination of shredded beef and colorful vegetables braised in the slow cooker, is delicious, tender, and flavorful.
Ropa vieja, one of the national dishes of Cuba, is loaded with flavor. The name ropa vieja means "old clothes," because the dish is thought to resemble a pile of rags.
These baked beans, cooked from scratch in the Crock Pot for several hours in a sweet glossy sauce, are perfect for a barbecue or summer potluck served along with all of your favorite sides - think mac and cheese, country style potato salad, and broccoli salad.
If you are looking for a side dish that is easy, a crowd pleaser, and perfect for any season, you definitely will love these slow cooker baked beans.
