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9 Easy Slow Cooker Recipes for Busy Nights

9 Easy Slow Cooker Recipes for Busy Nights
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Slow Cooker Recipes – What can cut time in your kitchen, maximize the use of budget-friendly ingredients, and reduce prepping mess? A slow cooker! Just throw the ingredients into your slow cooker, let it go to work, and come home to these ready-to-serve slow cooker dinners. Start by choosing one of these delicious slow cooker recipes, assemble your dish, relax and let the pot do the hard work.

Sidney Yang
by Sidney Yang
Sidney Yang

Sidney is part of the Eatwell101 family since 2014. As an editor, she shares her enthusiasm for food, cooking tips, and entertaining across more than a thousand written articles published on Eatwell101.

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Updated Mar 9, 2026
vegetarian slow cooker recipes

1. Slow Cooker Whole Cauliflower Curry and Cashew

A slow-cooked whole cauliflower curry is taken up a notch with the addition of sweet red peppers and chopped potatoes. So easy and insanely delicious!
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easy slow cooker recipes

2. Slow Cooker Honey-Garlic BBQ Pork Tenderloin

All it takes is a pork tenderloin and honey-garlic BBQ sauce to make this! Dinner is done just when you walk the door at night! Serve on sandwiches, baked potatoes, wraps, or simply by itself!
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crock pot soup recipes

3. Slow Cooker Light Chicken Corn Chowder

Definitely on the lighter side, this skinny version of the classic chicken and corn chowder cooks all by itself in the slow cooker and is loaded with sweet corn and cubed potatoes. So delicious you may even run back for seconds—or thirds!
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slow cooker beef recipes

4. Crock Pot Ground Beef Stew, Potato and Carrot

Because everyone needs a comfort food fix every once in a while, this crock pot beef stew, made with lean ground meat, carrot, potatoes, tomatoes and boatload of spices makes for a filling dinner, yet easy on your waistline.
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easy slow cooker soup recipes

5. Crockpot Split Pea Soup

Enjoy a warm and comforting bowl of this slow cooker split pea soup right off the crock pot after a hard day at work!
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crock pot chicken recipes

6. Slow Cooker Chicken Meatballs and Pasta Soup

This lighter version of beef meatballs, cooked quietly in the slow cooker with just a handful of ingredients, makes a rich soup and meat that melts in your mouth. Whether it’s for a weeknight supper or a Sunday dinner, you’ll enjoy a stress-free dish both convenient and comforting.
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slow cooker pork recipes

7. Easy Slow Cooker Pork Chops Fajitas

Pork chops, potatoes, carrots, fajita seasoning and bell peppers all simmered up in your slow cooker. This super easy recipe takes less than 10 minutes to prep and you let the slow cooker do all the work.
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8. Slow Cooker Chicken Bolognese Pasta

This light version of pasta Bolognese takes just 5 minutes of prep before the slow cooker does the rest of the work for you. Easy and delicious!
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slow cooker soup recipes

9. Slow Cooker Creamy Chicken Potato Soup

Warm up to a big bowlful of this easy, creamy chicken soup.Throw everything in the slow cooker and you’ll be ready to enjoy the chunky goodness of tender chicken, celery, carrots, and potatoes, sprinkled with plenty of Parmesan cheese.
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