Made with fresh lemon thyme, fresh rosemary, olive oil, onion, carrots, navy beans, mushroom broth, vegetable bouillon, bay leaf, fresh parsley
Method: stovetop, crock pot
Time: over 5 hours
Crock Pot Cooking
Don't overlook the slow cooker as being just as valuable a kitchen tool as your stove or oven. While it's long been recognized as an ideal way to cook roasts and stews, it can do so much more - and we'll show you how.
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Pro Tip:
The crock pot should be filled 2/3rds full when cooking for best results. Scale recipes up or down to fit your size crock pot.
Crock Pot 101
A properly working crock pot uses as about as much electricity and resources as a light bulb - making it more economical than using your stove! Also, it won't heat up your kitchen in the summer months.
crock pot cooking time conversion chart
| Crockpot | ||
| Oven Or Stovetop | High Temp 300F | Low Temp 200F |
| 15-30 minutes | 1 1/2 - 2 1/2 hours | 4 - 8 hours |
| 35-45 minutes | 3 - 4 hours | 6 - 10 hours |
| 50 minutes - 3 hours | 4 - 6 hours | 8 - 16 hours |
Cooking Times
Times listed with the recipes are guidelines - actual cooking times may vary based on the brand of crock pot, size, amount of liquid or food, how full your crock pot is, how dense the ingredients are, and the temperature of the foods when you add them.
Vegetarian Cassoulet
Easy All-Day French Onion Soup
Made with swiss cheese, onions, beef broth, butter, sugar, olive oil, flour, black pepper
Method: crock pot
Time: over 5 hours
Slow & Spicy Chili
Made with mushrooms, salsa, green bell peppers, celery, tomato juice, tomato paste, salt, sugar, dried oregano, Worcestershire sauce
Method: crock pot, stovetop
Time: 2-5 hours
Slow Cooked Baked Beans
If you're looking to impress dinner guests or just craving a hearty staple, slow-cooked baked beans are basic but brilliant. With layers of flavor from bacon to brown sugar...
Method: crock pot
Time: over 5 hours
Chicken Chili With Hominy
Tomatillos, green chilies and garlic help pack this dish full of flavor while the hominy and chicken bring that warm, comfortable feel.
Method: crock pot
Time: over 5 hours
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Slowcooked Mashed Potatoes
The crockpot comes to the rescue, along with an electric mixer to whip up creamy, buttery potatoes in a snap.
Method: crock pot
Time: 2-5 hours
Italian Dressing Pot Roast
Talk about easy crockpot shortcuts. Thanks to Italian dressing, this pot roast only needs three ingredients to slow cook itself to zesty, meaty perfection.
Method: crock pot
Time: over 5 hours
Backyard Barbecue Beer Brats
Beer brats are the move for taking your cookout game to the next level. A combo of beer and cola keeps the brats moist without being too sweet and the peppers and onions...
Method: crock pot
Time: 2-5 hours
Spicy White Chipotle Chili
Spicy chicken chili made with cooked chicken, onion powder, chicken broth, cumin, oregano, chipotle chili powder, cannellini beans, lime juice and cilantro.
Method: crock pot
Time: 2-5 hours
Meatballs In A Beefy Onion Sauce
A savory dinner made easy with a crock pot. Using frozen cooked meatballs, beef gravy, garlic, and onion soup mix, this dish is perfect for serving over rice or...
Method: crock pot
Time: 2-5 hours
Cajun Chicken Cordon Bleu
Made with cream of chicken soup, boneless, skinless chicken breast halves, butter, bread crumbs, deli ham, Creole seasoning, pepper jack cheese
Method: crock pot, stovetop
Time: 2-5 hours
Chicken Alfredo Lasagna
If you've got a slow-cooker addiction, lasagna is the next dish you can tackle in your crockpot. Not just any lasagna, either--creamy chicken alfredo lasagna.
Method: crock pot
Time: 2-5 hours
Ravioli Meal
This easy dinner just takes minutes to throw together in the crock pot. It's also easy to vary the ingredients. Try a meat-based pasta sauce with cheese ravioli. Or make it a vegetarian...
Method: crock pot
Time: 2-5 hours
Chicken and Broccoli Cheese Noodles
Easy and cheesy! Broccoli cheese soup makes a delicious and simple sauce slow cooked with chicken and served with pasta.
Method: crock pot
Time: 2-5 hours
White Beans with Sun Dried Tomatoes
Made with ripe olives, great Northern Beans, garlic, water, dried basil, salt, black pepper, sun-dried tomatoes
Method: crock pot
Time: 2-5 hours
Dump Lemon And Garlic Chicken
Throw some chicken thighs into a bag with oil, garlic and lemon and freeze it until you need it, then just thaw it overnight and leave it in the crockpot all day with no...
Method: crock pot
Time: over 5 hours
Herbed Mushrooms
Mushrooms soak up the flavors that they cook in so slow cooking them in a herby, buttery mixture results in a delicious mushroom side dish!
Method: crock pot
Time: 1-2 hours
Homestyle Applesauce
What better way to enjoy apples, even when it's not apple season, than with homemade crock pot applesauce.
Method: crock pot
Time: 2-5 hours
Red Wine Cranberry Sauce
Souse up your cranberry sauce this holiday season. Red wine enhances the flavor of the cranberries in ways you won't believe!
Method: crock pot
Time: 1-2 hours
Honey Glazed Ham
Change this recipe up by substituting maple syrup for the honey. Delicious!
Method: crock pot
Time: 2-5 hours
Pork And Cashews
Strips of pork are slow cooked in a soy sauce, brown sugar, and garlic mixture in the crock pot. The pork turns out wonderfully tender and flavorful.
Method: crock pot
Time: 2-5 hours
Polynesian Chicken
This delicious Pacific Island style recipe is made with chicken thighs that are seasoned and cooked in the crock pot with pineapple, soy sauce, sherry, brown sugar, and snow peas.
Method: crock pot
Time: over 5 hours
Roast Loin of Pork Californy
Here's why this pork roast is so spot on, you hit it with the broiler to get that scrumptious browned outside, then move it over to the crockpot to slow-cook it until...
Method: oven, crock pot
Time: over 5 hours
All Meat Chili Spread
Made with ground beef, tomato paste, tomatoes, salt, chili powder, garlic
Method: crock pot
Time: 2-5 hours
Rustic Garlic Mashed Potatoes
You've gotta have a go-to mashed potato recipe, and this one is a winner. The creamy, garlicky result is convincing enough on its own, but the convenience of the crockpot...
Method: crock pot
Time: over 5 hours
Raspberry Fudge Brownies
These slow cooker chocolate raspberry brownies are absolutely decadent. Made from scratch using simple ingredients and cooked to perfection in canning jars in the slow cooker.
Method: crock pot
Time: 2-5 hours
Sausage And Vegetable Risotto
Made with sweet Italian sausages, water, onion, butter, white wine, arborio rice, zucchini, kosher salt, fresh baby spinach, Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese
Method: crock pot, stovetop
Time: 1-2 hours
Sweet Dark and Crunchy Nougats
Made with dark chocolate, honey roasted peanuts, animal cracker cookies, sugar
Method: crock pot
Time: 1-2 hours
Fresh Manhattan Clam Chowder
Manhattan clam chowder is made with a tomato-based broth instead of the creamy, New England version. It's savory and a little spicy. And all kinds of delicious!
Method: crock pot, stovetop
Time: 2-5 hours
Very Sage Stuffing
The two keys to this scrumptious recipe are using cornbread for moisture and fresh sage for maximum herby flavor.
Method: stovetop, crock pot
Time: over 5 hours
Slow Cooked Chicken and Dumplings From Scratch
Scratch-made dumplings in scratch-made chicken soup is as made-with-love as it gets. No shortcuts here, just a rich, slow-simmered broth made from fresh...
Method: crock pot
Time: over 5 hours
Sweet Potato Stuffing
Made with salt, sage, poultry seasoning, celery, onion, butter, bread crumbs, sweet potato, chicken broth, pecans
Method: stovetop, crock pot
Time: over 5 hours
Greek Beans
Made with dried parsley, black pepper, salt, olive oil, onion, garlic, butter beans, tomatoes
Method: stovetop, crock pot
Time: 2-5 hours
Chocolate Cheesecake
This chocolate cheesecake is hiding a healthy secret in its protein-packed chocolate filling. Tofu helps keep the cheesecake nice and thick without you even knowing it's there.
Method: crock pot
Time: over 5 hours
Batter-Topped Peach Cobbler
With sliced peaches on the bottom and peach nectar in the batter, this cobbler gets a fruity double dose. Just imagine a melty scoop of vanilla ice cream on top of the hot...
Method: crock pot
Time: 2-5 hours
Boston Baked Beans
Made with bacon, brown sugar, Great Northern beans, onion, salt, molasses, Worcestershire sauce, dry mustard
Method: stovetop, crock pot
Time: over 5 hours
Sinful Chocolate Obsession
If there's one thing we can all agree on, it's that chocolate should always have a starring role in dessert. This sinful chocolate obsession makes it easy to whip up...
Method: crock pot
Time: 2-5 hours
Peppery Red Onions
Slow-cooked red onions are borderline magical. How does so much flavor come from such a humble ingredient? You'll want to put these sweet and spicy onion slices on everything.
Method: crock pot
Time: 2-5 hours
Curry Cauliflower Soup
A healthy, veggie-packed soup is such a perfect cool weather lunch. This tomato and cauliflower bowl is sure to leave you feeling revitalized and full of energy for the rest of...
Method: crock pot
Time: over 5 hours
Beefy Braised Short Ribs
Making a dish as rich and flavorful as red wine-braised short ribs with just one pot (read: one dish to clean) is a stroke of genius.
Method: stovetop, crock pot
Time: over 5 hours
Basil And Orange Carrots
An easy and delicious side dish. The carrots are cooked in a savory basil and orange sauce until they are tender and flavorful. This is a great way to get your kids to eat...
Method: crock pot
Time: 2-5 hours
Apple Cider Apple Butter
Made with salt, allspice, nutmeg, apples, apple cider, sugar, cinnamon, cloves
Method: crock pot
Time: over 5 hours
Chicken Normandy
Made with chicken, butter, brandy or cognac, onion, salt, black pepper, basil, garlic, apples, apple juice
Method: stovetop, crock pot
Time: 2-5 hours
Easy Vegetable Short Rib Soup
Made with peppercorns, salt, beef broth, short ribs or oxtails, diced tomatoes, carrots, celery, onions, potatoes
Method: crock pot
Time: over 5 hours
5 Bean Soup
Made with red kidney beans, garbanzo beans, navy beans, lima beans, cut green beans, beef broth, beer, chili powder, dried oregano, ground cumin
Method: crock pot
Time: 2-5 hours
Husband's Chili
Made with ground beef, beef stew, red kidney beans, pinto beans, tomatoes, tomato soup, water, onion, green bell pepper, garlic powder
Method: crock pot
Time: over 5 hours
Polish Chop Suey
Made with noodles, Polish sausage, onion, sauerkraut, mushrooms, cream of mushroom soup, water
Method: stovetop, crock pot
Time: 2-5 hours
Hamburger Soup with Barley
Made with beef broth, black pepper, salt, ground beef, onion, celery, tomatoes, carrots, potatoes, barley
Method: stovetop, crock pot
Time: over 5 hours
Acorn Squash Stuffed With Sausage And Apples
Made with water, acorn squash, salt, sausage meat, onion, apples, oregano
Method: crock pot, stovetop
Time: 2-5 hours
Sausage Cacciatore
Made with pasta sauce, rosemary, tomato, marsala wine, Italian sausage, garlic, onion, green bell peppers, red bell peppers, mushrooms
Method: crock pot
Time: 2-5 hours
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