Slow cooker recipes: 10 best winter warming casseroles

As soon as the weather starts to cool, it’s time to bring out the slow cooker. Here are some hearty recipe ideas that maximise flavour and warm you from the inside out.

Low temperature, long cooking time, maximum flavour.

These slow cooker recipes from delicious.com.au are everything you want and need right now.

Beef bourguignon-style short ribs

Colin Fassnidge and Anthony Puharich take a trip to Dublin via Paris, with a satisfying stew ideal for cold winter nights.

Wagyu beef hotpot

This winter warmer is all about a star cut of beef.

This Wagyu beef hotpot is a winter winner.

Chicken and apricot tagine

“This fragrant style of dish comes from the Middle East and North Africa,” MasterChef contestant Hayden Quinn says.

Beef rendang with turmeric brown rice

Make this delicious curry from scratch or use any leftover braised brisket you may have. Either way, this one is definitely a winner.

Chicken a la normande

Matt Preston celebrates everything there is to love about winter cooking with this warming and comforting recipe.

This chicken dish will warm you up.

Slow-cooked chicken, fennel and rice soup

The very definition of comfort food itself.

Braised beef cheek lasagne

What’s better than lasagne? Three hour slow-cooked beef cheek lasagne, that’s what.

Slow-cooked chicken with brown rice and avocado

Nothing says comfort food quite like slow-cooked chicken for dinner. Full of flavour and guaranteed to please.

Slow-roasted lamb shoulder, zaatar and tahini yoghurt

Slow-roasted until incredibly tender, this lamb shoulder recipe is bound to impress. Recipe by Clayton Wells, of Sydney’s Automata and A1 Canteen.

Lamb curry pie with lime pickle glaze

Just when you thought a slow-cooked lamb curry couldn’t get any better, we put it in a pie.

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